Free software router
Hi all, A long time ago, someone mentioned buying a router/ADSL modem that ran free software. IIRC they found that their connection was more reliable with it, and it cost something like $25. Does anyone remember this? Can anyone recommend a model? Cheers, Alex
There's the classic Linksys WRT54GL, but it's a model that's over 10 years old and doesn't have some of the latest features and wireless standards. http://www.linksys.com/us/support-product?pid=01t80000003KOkNAAW On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Alex Fraser <alex@phatcore.com> wrote:
Hi all,
A long time ago, someone mentioned buying a router/ADSL modem that ran free software. IIRC they found that their connection was more reliable with it, and it cost something like $25. Does anyone remember this? Can anyone recommend a model?
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... and it doesn't do ADSL, which was part of Alex's specification. On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Hannah Shalev <hannah@parabiosis.net> wrote:
There's the classic Linksys WRT54GL, but it's a model that's over 10 years old and doesn't have some of the latest features and wireless standards. http://www.linksys.com/us/support-product?pid=01t80000003KOkNAAW
On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Alex Fraser <alex@phatcore.com> wrote:
Hi all,
A long time ago, someone mentioned buying a router/ADSL modem that ran free software. IIRC they found that their connection was more reliable with it, and it cost something like $25. Does anyone remember this? Can anyone recommend a model?
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I have yet to hear of an ADSL modem (bundled with a router or not) that is open, let alone free. I would love to find one though, so prove me ignorant! On 2 Mar. 2017 10:39, "Matthew Cengia" <mattcen@gmail.com> wrote:
... and it doesn't do ADSL, which was part of Alex's specification.
On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Hannah Shalev <hannah@parabiosis.net> wrote:
There's the classic Linksys WRT54GL, but it's a model that's over 10 years old and doesn't have some of the latest features and wireless standards. http://www.linksys.com/us/support-product?pid=01t80000003KOkNAAW
On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Alex Fraser <alex@phatcore.com> wrote:
Hi all,
A long time ago, someone mentioned buying a router/ADSL modem that ran free software. IIRC they found that their connection was more reliable with it, and it cost something like $25. Does anyone remember this? Can anyone recommend a model?
Cheers, Alex _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list Free-software-melb@lists.softwarefreedom.com.au http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/ listinfo/free-software-melb
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On 2 March 2017 at 10:43, thelionroars <thelionroars1337@gmail.com> wrote:
I have yet to hear of an ADSL modem (bundled with a router or not) that is open, let alone free. I would love to find one though, so prove me ignorant!
Hi all, Freetz (https://freetz.org/) is a project for free software firmware for the Fritz!Box, quite a nice ADSL modem and the standard offering from Internode. From what I can gather there's still a binary blob for the core of the Fritz, but you can remove and install your own packages to reconfigure it. Cheers Paul Foxworthy
On 02/03/17 09:58, Alex Fraser wrote:
Hi all,
A long time ago, someone mentioned buying a router/ADSL modem that ran free software. IIRC they found that their connection was more reliable with it, and it cost something like $25. Does anyone remember this? Can anyone recommend a model?
Hi Alex, Think Penguin sell a WiFi router (but not ADSL) based on LibreCMC. Approx $60 USD + shipping: https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/free-software-wireless-n-mini-vpn-rou... I don't think I've *ever* seen an ADSL modem running fully free software unfortunately. Heh, though here in Ballarat we have fibre to the home. ;) Cheers, Ben
On 02/03/17 10:44, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
I don't think I've *ever* seen an ADSL modem running fully free software unfortunately. Heh, though here in Ballarat we have fibre to the home. ;)
Melbourne company Traverse Technologies sell open source ADSL hardware: https://www.traverse.com.au/products I have one of their ADSL 1 PCI adapters, which I used to use in a mini-PC running Linux as my home router. It made ISP support calls interesting, since it was running the Linux ATM stack and I could diagnose the ATM layer as well as the IP and PPPoA layers. :) Cheers, Andrew
Ben Sturmfels <ben@stumbles.id.au> writes:
Hi Alex, Think Penguin sell a WiFi router (but not ADSL) based on LibreCMC. Approx $60 USD + shipping:
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/free-software-wireless-n-mini-vpn-rou...
I can recommend this product, our home is using it happily. -- \ “A lie can be told in a few words. Debunking that lie can take | `\ pages. That is why my book… is five hundred pages long.” —Chris | _o__) Rodda, 2011-05-05 | Ben Finney
On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 09:58:40AM +1100, Alex Fraser wrote:
A long time ago, someone mentioned buying a router/ADSL modem that ran free software. IIRC they found that their connection was more reliable with it, and it cost something like $25. Does anyone remember this? Can anyone recommend a model?
I have a cheap TP-Link ADSL2+ modem that cost $23 from MSY at the time. TP-Link provide source code for most models on their website, although I haven't tried modding mine so am not sure if the source is available for the bootloader and other core components. I doubt they provide a license to the code for the web interface, although there's very little to it and the link is controlled externally anyway (explained below). This modem was an upgrade from an old Neatgear model (the Netgear would insist on being a router and doing PPP itself). The new plan was to have the modem do as little as possible, and shift the heavy lifting to a separate machine with more grunt. For this I have the pppoe Debian package installed on a Xen DomU on my home server and run the pppd daemon there (where I have a spare PCIe NIC passed through to the guest). That VM provides the default gateway for my home network and all firewall functionality. Since it's just a VM running on my existing server, there were no extra costs involved. Since using this setup, my speeds have increased significantly over what I previously had, and I've never had a modem crash since. (The old modem used to crash or slow down to a halt quite regularly when the number of connections spiked (eg. bittorrent)). Since the guest runs a disto of my choosing, administration and configuration management is straightforward. Took some work to get it initially up and running, but worth it. Cheers, Adam
Alex Fraser <alex@phatcore.com> writes:
A long time ago, someone mentioned buying a router/ADSL modem that ran free software. IIRC they found that their connection was more reliable with it, and it cost something like $25. Does anyone remember this? Can anyone recommend a model?
On similar note, eventually it looks like I will get NBN FTTN (late next year according to NBN website). Which I understand requires a VDSL2 modem. Guessing finding an open VDSL2 modem will be somewhat harder then finding an open ADSL modem however (i.e. both being impossible). -- Brian May <brian@linuxpenguins.xyz> https://linuxpenguins.xyz/brian/
Hi everyone, Thanks for all the great suggestions! I think Adam's MSY modem is what I was thinking of. But since other people mentioned it, I checked, and I've just found out that I'll be (supposedly) getting the NBN near the end of this year. I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble of getting a new modem in the mean time. Although $23 is pretty cheap. It's interesting that it's so hard to get an open modem - I didn't expect to hear that! Thanks again, Alex
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