[Tfug] best router for novel uses - long distance bridging, mesh, etc.

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Steve Franks <bahamasfranks at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone have thoughts on a router one can flash readily and do
> community networking and maybe set up a mesh in mobile locations (i.e.
> hamfest, conference, park, etc.) and such on? I've got some ubiquity
> stuff, and I'm not exactly enamoured of the way openwrt is running on
> it, but maybe it's just learning curve...
>
> Personal use, so ideally it would be dirt-cheap and I can stockpile a
> few of them, but I'll take robustness & a straight-forward setup
> first.

Depends on what your problems with openwrt (and presumaly dd-wrt) are
with the hardware.  The short answer however, is that if you can put
dd-wrt or openwrt on it, you can probably get $whatever running on it,
with a little work, just need to be sure it's got a non-JTAG unbrick
option or you're comfortable adding JTAG, and the *wrt wikis are
helpful there.

-- 
Tom