magreen
Golden Member
Hello,
I'm pleasantly surprised to see my WNR2000v1 is stable as a wireless AP with its stock firmware. Wondering if there's any benefit to switching to OpenWRT.
Background:
The thing had been flaky as anything as a wireless router. Reboot every day or two, and a thousand dropped connections. That's why I had "upgraded" to an old WRT54GL loaded with dd-wrt, and just used the WNR2000 in AP mode as just a network switch with an extra radio (to reach my upstairs bedroom from the basement, b/c the wireless G of the WRT54GL wouldn't reach. So I had the WNR2000's WAN port unused, and the ethernet going into one of its regular ethernet ports).
Well, the radio on the WRT54GL up and died on me. So I was planning to get a new wireless AP of some sort. But I tried turning off the radio on the WRT54GL and using it as just a dd-wrt router, and use the WNR2000 as the wireless AP for all my devices. Lo and behold, it worked and has been solid as a rock so far for about a week. No reboots or resets required. No dropped connections.
Anyone know if this is typical, that a device that's flaky as a wireless router becomes stable if you just use it as a network switch/AP? Is routing really that compute intensive on the device's little processor? (Or could it just be a buggy firmware that happens to be buggy in its routing code?)
Also, do you think I'd benefit from loading it with OpenWRT? Better range/signal upstairs and around the house?
Thanks.
I'm pleasantly surprised to see my WNR2000v1 is stable as a wireless AP with its stock firmware. Wondering if there's any benefit to switching to OpenWRT.
Background:
The thing had been flaky as anything as a wireless router. Reboot every day or two, and a thousand dropped connections. That's why I had "upgraded" to an old WRT54GL loaded with dd-wrt, and just used the WNR2000 in AP mode as just a network switch with an extra radio (to reach my upstairs bedroom from the basement, b/c the wireless G of the WRT54GL wouldn't reach. So I had the WNR2000's WAN port unused, and the ethernet going into one of its regular ethernet ports).
Well, the radio on the WRT54GL up and died on me. So I was planning to get a new wireless AP of some sort. But I tried turning off the radio on the WRT54GL and using it as just a dd-wrt router, and use the WNR2000 as the wireless AP for all my devices. Lo and behold, it worked and has been solid as a rock so far for about a week. No reboots or resets required. No dropped connections.
Anyone know if this is typical, that a device that's flaky as a wireless router becomes stable if you just use it as a network switch/AP? Is routing really that compute intensive on the device's little processor? (Or could it just be a buggy firmware that happens to be buggy in its routing code?)
Also, do you think I'd benefit from loading it with OpenWRT? Better range/signal upstairs and around the house?
Thanks.
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