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Netgear WNR3500L Open Source Router Announced

Posted by kdawson on from the still-making-lemonade dept.

MyOpenRouter writes "Netgear has announced the WNR3500L, a brand new, open source, wireless-N gigabit router customizable with third party firmwares. MyOpenRouter is the dedicated source for Netgear open source routers, with the full scoop including a review with screenshots, how-to's, tutorials, firmware downloads, etc. Here's a review and the downloads page." The router can run popular open source firmware including DD-WRT, OpenWRT. and Tomato. It will list for $140.

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  1. Re:psu? by dwater · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ah, sarcasm. That's mature.

    BTW, all the racks I've used require plugging in...if only for the fans.

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    Max.
  2. Re:Fool me once.... by nine-times · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There are advantages to their routers, but you practically need to be an all-Apple shop to appreciate them. For example, if you run OSX server, you can set it to automatically reconfigure the router based on which services the server is offering. You can also set them up to share drives for Time Machine and advertise services via Bonjour and stuff like that.

    They're pretty nice, actually, but not if you're running Linux and just want to be able to configure the damned thing.