The Soekris mentioned seems to be a poor deal. the PC-Engines APU boards should be a bit faster and $200 or so cheaper, and there’s likely boards even cheaper than that.
Part of my problem with these BSD router builds is that consumer router hardware is sufficiently fast, cheap and low-power enough, it’s just the software that’s terrible. I don’t need a half-decade outdated industrial board that runs at 35W to sling packets.
Except those kinda suck, and most consumer routers are hostile to extra firmware.
What I’d like to see is a high-quality consumer router, HW and SW, over D-Link/Linksys/whatever’s fly by night firmware they abandon a month later and quirky SoCs. Long release cycles for security updates.
Apple is close, but they barely give a shit about the AirPort series.
The Soekris mentioned seems to be a poor deal. the PC-Engines APU boards should be a bit faster and $200 or so cheaper, and there’s likely boards even cheaper than that.
Part of my problem with these BSD router builds is that consumer router hardware is sufficiently fast, cheap and low-power enough, it’s just the software that’s terrible. I don’t need a half-decade outdated industrial board that runs at 35W to sling packets.
The post is dated 2013-11-13, when the APU was not yet available.
I would like to see a wireless router like this.
So consumer router + tomato/ddwrt?
Except those kinda suck, and most consumer routers are hostile to extra firmware.
What I’d like to see is a high-quality consumer router, HW and SW, over D-Link/Linksys/whatever’s fly by night firmware they abandon a month later and quirky SoCs. Long release cycles for security updates.
Apple is close, but they barely give a shit about the AirPort series.