Yay! The Asus RT-N66U is what I'm currently using! With DD-WRT firmware, and upgraded with long-range 9db antennas. I bought it in a thrift store for $5, but spent around $30 to get a replacement PSU (it uses a really tiny barrel) and the antennas. It's serving as a client (like a "travel router") so I can pick up a distant wifi AP and then plug my PC into the ethernet jacks. I set up the 5Ghz band as the client and the 2.5Ghz band is an AP which relays the network connection, mostly for my phone. The only dissappointments I have with it is HOW HOT it is - I might mod it to add a fan someday, and I can't clone the wireless MAC address and have to use the one identifying it as an Asus product.
I can recommend GLinet routers! They aren't the highest-end, and the company is small, but they're made by an open source router nerd using a nice proprietary GUI on top of a fork of OpenWRT.
Yay! The Asus RT-N66U is what I'm currently using! With DD-WRT firmware, and upgraded with long-range 9db antennas. I bought it in a thrift store for $5, but spent around $30 to get a replacement PSU (it uses a really tiny barrel) and the antennas. It's serving as a client (like a "travel router") so I can pick up a distant wifi AP and then plug my PC into the ethernet jacks. I set up the 5Ghz band as the client and the 2.5Ghz band is an AP which relays the network connection, mostly for my phone. The only dissappointments I have with it is HOW HOT it is - I might mod it to add a fan someday, and I can't clone the wireless MAC address and have to use the one identifying it as an Asus product.
I can recommend GLinet routers! They aren't the highest-end, and the company is small, but they're made by an open source router nerd using a nice proprietary GUI on top of a fork of OpenWRT.