New Crapazon wabsite:

[Coligny]

For tooling and industrial supplies...

awesome:

http://www.4m4z0nsupply.com

[TennoChinko]

[YT]RB2GboGOuTI[/YT]

[waruta]

For tooling and industrial supplies...

awesome:

http://www.4m4z0nsupply.com

You might as well have linked it properly with the actual URL if you went through the trouble of making a hotlink..... /end rant

/pissed at my new wireless router for accepting the latest DD-WRT build but not enabling any security whatsoever even though I have checked everything....thank you Buffalo, for providing a free AP for everyone and their mother while I toil away at your archaic firmware and stupid software.

[Russell]

For tooling and industrial supplies...

awesome:

http://www.4m4z0nsupply.com

Holy crap. Now I can finally buy those 48" by 120" Carbon Steel Perforated Sheets!...

[Coligny]

You might as well have linked it properly with the actual URL if you went through the trouble of making a hotlink..... /end rant

/pissed at my new wireless router for accepting the latest DD-WRT build but not enabling any security whatsoever even though I have checked everything....thank you Buffalo, for providing a free AP for everyone and their mother while I toil away at your archaic firmware and stupid software.

Dood... all crapazon link are mangled on FG... it was the best I could without utilizing an url shortener

As for DD-WRT...


Try Open-WRT instead... it's a pita... but rock solid once setup...

[cstaylor]

Dood... all crapazon link are mangled on FG... it was the best I could without utilizing an url shortener

As for DD-WRT...


Try Open-WRT instead... it's a pita... but rock solid once setup...

Don't be cheap: get a pfSense-compatible embedded platform and enjoy FreeBSD in all of its glory.

[Coligny]

Don't be cheap: get a pfSense-compatible embedded platform and enjoy FreeBSD in all of its glory.

I can walk to any local shop, buy a random Buffalo shit put Open Wrt and have it running before my fries are cold. On a hardware plateform using so little power that I literally got days of use on a UPS if my power goes out.

PFsense is certainly cool to put on a megajumbo Proliant WH40.000k TopZomb 256 bits with twin PSU bombproof chassis multilink 100G fiberoptic network card with integrated Patriot missile launcher and remote Predator Drone anti intrusion system. For feature and safety it would blow the shit out of Whatever-WRT... But for communication bridgehead I'd rather go with reliable, simple, expandable. I have a spare ready to be plugged and at the first sign of hardware trouble the current unit will go straight to the trash.

[cstaylor]

I can walk to any local shop, buy a random Buffalo shit put Open Wrt and have it running before my fries are cold. On a hardware plateform using so little power that I literally got days of use on a UPS if my power goes out.

PFsense is certainly cool to put on a megajumbo Proliant WH40.000k TopZomb 256 bits with twin PSU bombproof chassis multilink 100G fiberoptic network card with integrated Patriot missile launcher and remote Predator Drone anti intrusion system. For feature and safety it would blow the shit out of Whatever-WRT... But for communication bridgehead I'd rather go with reliable, simple, expandable. I have a spare ready to be plugged and at the first sign of hardware trouble the current unit will go straight to the trash.

Speaking as someone who used Open-WRT on Buffacrap hardware for a year before finding m0n0wall (and then pfSense), asking a remote customer to power cycle their routers once a month or so because the software had crashed was a real time-waster. I have customers running m0n0wall with > 2 years uptime without a hiccup.

Maybe Buffalo and friends have improved their hardware since 2005 when I gave it the boot.

[waruta]

Thanks for the suggestions. I think I'm going to try OpenWrt for a while and see if that works. Buffalo knows their firmware is so crap they have resorted to using customized versions of DD-Wrt on their higher-end routers

Looks like I'm going to configure it as a Dumb AP since I already have the Hikari router and everything, this cheap Buffalo Wireless Router is only to be used by the laptops in the other room, since I'm connected directly to the original router. WPA2 with AES and MAC address filtering for sure. Anything else I'm missing?

Btw, the prices for A.Suppy don't seem to be all that cheap with shipping included, but could prove useful if we ever did a bulk buy. (Wonder if they could supply a 350mm smoothbore high-strength superalloy [s]gun barrel[/s] pipe for a good price?)

[Coligny]

Speaking as someone who used Open-WRT on Buffacrap hardware for a year before finding m0n0wall (and then pfSense), asking a remote customer to power cycle their routers once a month or so because the software had crashed was a real time-waster. I have customers running m0n0wall with > 2 years uptime without a hiccup.

Maybe Buffalo and friends have improved their hardware since 2005 when I gave it the boot.

I have lot of crash with Tomato Firmware on their HappyMeal priced wifi bridges Buffalo WHR-G54S, even the fracking integrated switch goes tits up. But the Main router Buffalo WZR-HP-AG300H has been literally rock solid. I bought it in emergency when my linksys started to -litterally- smoke. It was supposed to be temporary before I order something more serious/pro/whatever. But with Open WRT it 'just worked' to the point of making absolutely no sense whatsoever to replace it...

[cstaylor]

when my linksys started to -litterally- smoke.

[Coligny]

:jawdrop:

Capacitor went whoosh... smelt a bit melted plastic... tried to replace the part... no go... went with the sledgehammer school of terminally fixing stuff with great prejudice...