Thread: Is your home wi-fi router safe?

Originally Posted by Dapper

Best bet is to flash tune up the vim with the scart input vector.
Drop your blueberry pie into the Google quad milli processer
After that simply plug and play the USB alongside the FireWire port, re-jig the octometer and simply re-boot the nano-flextechtrics.

Not really a big deal if you know what you're doing.

You don't even know the basics. What about the Flux capacitor!

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Most of it would go over your fucking head anyway.

Sure it would.

Originally Posted by baldrick

I tried DD-WRT back in 2008 when I was using tomato on wrt54gl's ( I had 30 + deployed ) thinking that it might solve a problem I was having , but I found it to be bloated and slow compared to tomato .

Problem is that only a limited number of routers can run Tomato. DD-WRT bloated and slow? That makes no sense. Bloated how?

My ISP has just recently deployed fiber in my neighborhood. I will finally have 1 gbps down and up. As soon as I can get a tech out to my place I will be upgrading my routers. Give tomato a look then I will.

^ Ah interesting I missed that post. I was thinking about getting the ASUS RT-AC87U but may have to rethink.

Originally Posted by bsnub

I was thinking about getting the ASUS RT-AC87U but may have to rethink.

Steer away from that one, the Quantenna 5GHz wifi chip is difficult to support in 3rd party firmware.
NetGear R7800 is the fastest consumer grade router on the market today and there will be OpenWRT and DD-WRT firmwares for it.

My brain hurts now.
Whatever it is I just want to plug it in and turn it on.

Originally Posted by lom

NetGear R7800 is the fastest consumer grade router on the market today

Differing results with my ISP.

Bypassing needless CenturyLink Wireless Router on Gigabit Fiber ? Kevin's Blog

you still need a/the fibre unit ( maybe there are PCIe fibre cards to use ), but you can put it in bridge mode and use the router or minipc to do the login negotiation and the fibre unit is transparent

^ Exactly and that is similar to what I am doing now. ISP supplied modem/router in bridge mode and my own router running DD-WRT. Its pretty efficient and I have the ability to completely control my QOS settings.

Keep the lady's bandwidth usage in check. But after fiber is up her usage will not be an issue.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Originally Posted by lom

NetGear R7800 is the fastest consumer grade router on the market today

Differing results with my ISP.

Bypassing needless CenturyLink Wireless Router on Gigabit Fiber ? Kevin's Blog

450Mbps appears to be the max on the Netgear Firmware for the R7000.

R7800 is around twice as fast as R7000 and is currently the fastest consumer grade router.
Its cpu is a Qualcomm IP8065 dual core ARMv7 clocked at 1.7GHz and the cpu contains a hardware crypto accelerator which makes it extremely suited for encrypted communication like VPN or PTPP.

^ Thanks mate and you have been greened. I will be giving that one a hard look if I decide not to go the homebrew method that Balders linked.

Originally Posted by lom

Originally Posted by bsnub

Originally Posted by lom

NetGear R7800 is the fastest consumer grade router on the market today

Differing results with my ISP.

Bypassing needless CenturyLink Wireless Router on Gigabit Fiber ? Kevin's Blog

450Mbps appears to be the max on the Netgear Firmware for the R7000.

R7800 is around twice as fast as R7000 and is currently the fastest consumer grade router.
Its cpu is a Qualcomm IP8065 dual core ARMv7 clocked at 1.7GHz and the cpu contains a hardware crypto accelerator which makes it extremely suited for encrypted communication like VPN or PTPP.

But the R8500 has twice the throughput (5.3Gbps against 2.53Gbps).

So I guess it depends what you do with it.

Most of my traffic is streaming from Drobos to media players.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by lom

Originally Posted by bsnub

Originally Posted by lom

NetGear R7800 is the fastest consumer grade router on the market today

Differing results with my ISP.

Bypassing needless CenturyLink Wireless Router on Gigabit Fiber ? Kevin's Blog

450Mbps appears to be the max on the Netgear Firmware for the R7000.

R7800 is around twice as fast as R7000 and is currently the fastest consumer grade router.
Its cpu is a Qualcomm IP8065 dual core ARMv7 clocked at 1.7GHz and the cpu contains a hardware crypto accelerator which makes it extremely suited for encrypted communication like VPN or PTPP.

But the R8500 has twice the throughput (5.3Gbps against 2.53Gbps).

So I guess it depends what you do with it.

Most of my traffic is streaming from Drobos to media players.

AC5300 is basically a gimmic, a play with numbers.
Once started by one mfgrs, the other follows even if it is a niche product.
You will find it very difficult to find a quad stream client adapter to start with and if you do then where do you feed your 2x 2100MBps 5GHz radios from?
LAN ports are "only" 1 Gigabit and if you intend to use your router as a NAS then you should know that the USB 3.0 ports of those routers are also speed limited (due to hardware limitation) and can maybe transfer 1Gbps if you are lucky.

Advertising bollox it is.

Yeah but if you want to copy files from multiple sources and stream data at the same time, it's probably the better choice.

I have a couple of Drobos and am usually maxing my internet connection and moving files between various devices.

Let's face it, most people's Internet connection is in the 5-100Mbps range, and that's usually the bottleneck for what most people are doing (i.e. downloading or streaming off the interwebnet).

(By the way, I have the R8000 and it's good enough for what I want, there's no real benefit to me to upgrade yet).