> On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 11:32:44AM GMT, Kelly McEvilly
> [kellym@wbhcp.com] said the following:
>>
>> Sadly, I have the same crappy Westell modem from Smithville at
>> home. Soon, they are gonna cut a trench across my yard and run
>> fiber to my house and I'm hoping I'll get a serious upgrade in
>> equipment from them when that happens.
>
> Since this is the Linux Users Group, I would suggest that when
> you get fiber to the house that you change your router to a
> Linux router setup on a low end PC. You should still pick
> reliable parts, but you can find some old Pentium 3 or 4 for
> $50 that you could slap an extra network card in and be fine.
> It will be much more reliable and flexible. You can even use
> one of the free router/firewall distributions such as
> SmoothWall, pfSense, Endian, etc. There are a ton of them. The
> only thing is that it'd use more power than one of the home
> broadband routers.
Along that line, you might want to get the Linksys
WRT54GL and flash it to dd-wrt. I have that behind a cable modem
(can't get DSL at all, much less fiber), and it's doing fine.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
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