[Noisebridge-discuss] WiFi router for the cool kids?

[Tom Lowenthal]

Bob Eastbrook <baconeater789 at gmail.com> wrote:
> My Netgear N600 WiFi router has served me faithfully, but lately has
> been having problems.  Time to replace it.  I keep it behind a pfSense
> firewall, which I love.
>
> I'm looking for recommendations.  I could just get a new WiFi access
> point and keep pfSense around, or I could consolidate everything into
> one device.  I'd love to have something which made setting up a SSL
> VPN a cinch.  I'm also into traffic graphs.
>
> I looked at access points from Buffalo which came with DD-WRT
> installed, but they don't have great reviews when it comes to WiFi
> performance.  I love the idea of having DD-WRT pre-installed though.
>
> What are the rest of you guys using these days?

I use a bunch of Ubiquiti enterprise APs. Amazon sells the base model for $80
(three for $200). If you have walls made of chicken wire, lots of
potential cients or so on, you can pay a little more for the
higer-power model, or one with cleverer guts.

They're PoE access points which work best when you have a Linux box on
your home network to run the control software. On Debian, you can just
add their repo. I have no complaints, even when I try to give them a
hard time.

-Tom