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I've just purchased a router that be flashed with OpenWRT or Lede -- the WD My Net N750 router. Three people will share one internet service. Their internet service is not unlimited. It is metered and pricey. Amy will have just one laptop. Britney will have a laptop and smartphone. Courtney...

hi, batmeat. nice to hear from another exotic-sounding food! Yeah, I didn't think eyeballing the SSD would help. I thought maybe there was a program or software we can run?

I'm considering buying a new SSD from a private seller (Craigslist). It's sealed in the original blister pack sorta package. But it may have had falls or bumps. Is there some way to check the physical health of the SSD? I run Linux Mint 17.1, if that matters.

Sorry, Meraki is way above my budget. :( The cheapest I saw on the Meraki Cisco site is over $500.

No one is gaming, netflixing, or torrenting. If I understand you correctly, you're saying that the number of routers necessary is one less than the number of users. If you have 5 users, you'd need 4 routers. If there's 10 users, you'd need 9 routers. Yikes! I wanted to save money. I thought...

I've just bought another router, one that can run OpenWRT or Lede. Hope it's easy to set-up and easy to use and has clear graphs for the other people sharing the internet.

On an OpenWRT- or Lede-running router?

even with a consumer wireless router that has OpenWRT or Lede?

I just bought a router that can do openwrt or lede. I was told openwrt or lede can do what I'm asking for. i hope that's true.

Thanks for your reply, Larry. I'm not a really techie. i'm now leaning towards getting a basic router that can do WRT. is that bad? Hmmm... wasn't even aware of this phenomenon. I thought every bit or byte is linked to some device. Didn't know there was such a thing as unaccounted packets.

Three people will share one internet service. Their internet service is not unlimited. It is metered and pricey. Albert will have just one laptop. Bob will have a laptop and smartphone. Charlie will have a Linux Mint desktop, a Linux Mint laptop, an Android tablet and an Android phone. Most...

LTC, "die quickly" just because their birthday is way back? "Die quickly" despite "low mileage"?

ltc8k6, virtualLarry, the drives may be old in terms of its birthday, but it's been not been powered on for many years (around 8 years). So the drives don't have many spins to them. :)

LTC8K6, you don't know the speed of my HDDs, and yet you imply they're slow. One's a 10,000 RPM Raptor. The other is 7,500 RPM.

LTC8K6, nope. these two hard drives are coming out of a 10-year-old computer.