[geeks] cheap, secure wifi router?

[Nathan Raymond]

It's worth noting that in some cases DD-WRT and other alternate variants
also lack hardware acceleration features of official firmware for device.
i.e. some of the wifi stack is running on the CPU or the NAT is on the CPU,
while the official firmware offloads, so it can mean you sacrifice
performance when going with DD-WRT etc. There are some exceptions, such as
Asuswrt-Merlin, which is a specific project of one developer who got the
permission to work with the official ASUS firmware source and create an
alternate version which retains the hardware offload capabilities but does
more than the stock firmware:

http://asuswrt.lostrealm.ca/about

- Nate

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Andrew Jones <andrew at jones.ec> wrote:

> On 12/18/2015 04:01 AM, Jonathan Groll wrote:
>
>> Did you flash some sensible flavour of *BSD onto any of the
>> edgerouters?
>>
>
> As far as I know, none of the BSDs support the networking hardware in the
> ER3-Lite.
>
> So if you install FreeBSD, it works fine, but performance drops
> considerably.  It is my understanding that this is because 100% of the
> routing has to be done on the control plane.
>
> The control plane is no slouch (dual-core 500 MHz MIPS) but you're not
> going to push a gigabit of traffic through it.
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