How to install DD-WRT firmware
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@Nic said:
Ubiquiti rocks - mine is rock solid at home and covers not only the whole house, but I still get signal half way down the block.
Same here. I went from not being able to get it everywhere in the house to being able to sit in my car at the far side of a parking lot and still getting it!
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@JaredBusch said:
@coliver see @scottalanmiller's answers above. I happen to agree with both.
You can buy things like the Ubiquiti ERL for less than $100.
It may not have built in WiFi, but then again following the do IT at home thing, I have a separate AP anyway.
I have nothing against DD-WRT in a home enthusiast environment.
Right, it sounded like you had some kind of vendetta against the software. The Ubiquiti equipment is fairly new so many people that I see using DD-WRT, including myself, didn't have that as an option when it was installed. I would be purchasing it now, as I did for my AP. For people who are enthusiasts or looking for some things with a comparable feature set at a reduced price, eBay has lots of compatible devices for 20-30$, DD-WRT fits the bill. I'm not defending my decision by any means, just stating that it is a good option to have.
I did get a Unifi LR AP for my house because they worked so well at work.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
Other then "do IT at home", why would you avoid DD-WRT, it is a far more stable firmware then what is generally available on SOHO routers. It also offers many enterprise features at a fraction of the price of "enterprise" gateways.
Is it really a fraction of the price of enterprise routers? Enterprise routers start at $85 will full, official support. No need to risk bricking something and no need to use low quality hardware. No need to switch the OS. Yes, you can save a buck or two, but not enough to matter.
And there is huge value in having enterprise gear at home for your career, there is no value to have DD-WRT at home other than the fun of trying to get it to work if you are an embedded systems hobbyist.
And Pfsense & VyOS are enterprise routers if you have the hardware. and who doesn't have an extra pc?
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@thecreativeone91 said:
And Pfsense & VyOS are enterprise routers if you have the hardware. and who doesn't have an extra pc?
Great options.
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VyOS is the open source derivative of Vyatta, that runs on the Ubiquiti gear too.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
Other then "do IT at home", why would you avoid DD-WRT, it is a far more stable firmware then what is generally available on SOHO routers. It also offers many enterprise features at a fraction of the price of "enterprise" gateways.
Is it really a fraction of the price of enterprise routers? Enterprise routers start at $85 will full, official support. No need to risk bricking something and no need to use low quality hardware. No need to switch the OS. Yes, you can save a buck or two, but not enough to matter.
And there is huge value in having enterprise gear at home for your career, there is no value to have DD-WRT at home other than the fun of trying to get it to work if you are an embedded systems hobbyist.
And Pfsense & VyOS are enterprise routers if you have the hardware. and who doesn't have an extra pc?
I wasn't thinking about these, also great options.
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@coliver said:
I wasn't thinking about these, also great options.
Those are what I personally ran prior to the Ubiquiti equipment. pfSense was my personal preference. I have never ran DD-WRT simply because I have always been in the do IT at home mindset. Even before I knew it was a mindset
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@JaredBusch said:
@coliver said:
I wasn't thinking about these, also great options.
Those are what I personally ran prior to the Ubiquiti equipment. pfSense was my personal preference. I have never ran DD-WRT simply because I have always been in the do IT at home mindset. Even before I knew it was a mindset
LOL, same here.
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@JaredBusch said:
@coliver said:
I wasn't thinking about these, also great options.
Those are what I personally ran prior to the Ubiquiti equipment. pfSense was my personal preference. I have never ran DD-WRT simply because I have always been in the do IT at home mindset. Even before I knew it was a mindset
I ran pfSense as a firewall between my virtual environment and the rest of my network when I was doing that. Never had the spare hardware to run it dedicated for the rest of my network.
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If it's not in their router database on the dd-wrt website, it's not supported. Sorry. They have every exact model they support listed. Trust me.
