On 08/10/2019 03:12 AM, gumb wrote:
Side question: are linksys considered the 'goto' router brand for Linux users? I may need to replace a misbehaving router and it seems almost everything on the market now is linksys or tp-link, even Netgear has taken a back seat. Are there any brands to avoid?
Is there any brand that still manufactures normal-looking routers not designed primarily to appeal to 14-year-old boys who dream of spaceships and 1980s supercars?
Netgear stands behind their products no-questions asked (well very few), I've run linksys, netgear, TEW and now tp-link Archer C7 AC1750 (best bang for the buck in 2019 router/wireless AP review - Amazon $71 w/free shipping) All I require wireless mac filtering and port-forwarding (for smtp, ssh, imaps, tls, http, https, and whatever else I happen to need) Pretty much all will have the basic functionality, though some limit mac filters to 20 addresses, etc. that can be a pain. All were pretty much the same. The couple of TEW I had were fine, but one lost the ability to forward port 80 -- it just died. The rest of the ports continued to work, who knows. I just gave https://www.pcmag.com/roundup/292110/the-best-wireless-routers a look and found the cheapest that met my needs. Read the review and it had fine throughput. You have two price groups. The ~$80 group and the $200-$400 group. Unless I need something that the cheaper ones can't provide, I can buy 3 for the price of one of the more expensive ones. I've always gotten 5-8 years out of each box, and by then, the next two or three versions of chips have come out making them practically obsolete. I have an easier time dealing with cheap obsolescence that the expensive type :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org