Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Project For a Router/Wi-Fi Access Point?

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 5, 2013 @05:08AM from the what's-the-nsa's-least-favorite dept.

An anonymous reader writes "My wireless router just died. I have an old netbook lying around that has a wired network interface and a wireless one. The wireless card is supported in master mode by Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. What does Slashdot recommend I use to turn it into a router/wireless access point? DD-WRT? pfSense? Smoothwall? Fedora/Ubuntu/OpenBSD with a manual configuration? I'm not afraid of getting my hands dirty and I know what I'm doing, but I want as close to zero maintenance as possible."

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Re:DD-WRT on Buffalo hardware by icebike · 2013-10-05 07:36 · Score: 1, Redundant

I'm pretty sure I didn't miss the point, as you would have realized if you read past the first sentence. (Yeah, I know, its slashdot, but for gods sake the world does not stop at the first piece of punctuation you encounter.!!)
Even after his experiment, he will need a new router, for all of the reasons mentioned by several posters above.

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