New Modem Router Recommendations?

[Geoffrey Mendelson]

I have a tp-link archer 600 router, I got from my ISP, and it does not reliably pass packets to and from the wifi and wired networks.

Eventually, I will get around to replacing it.

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, Israel
On May 21, 2020, 7:41 PM +0300, Michael Tewner <tewner at gmail.com>, wrote:
> In addition to everything Yuval said, especially about putting the modem into "bridge" mode -
> OpenWRT is a great choice. Alternately, I've been using a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter-X to do PPPoE. The ER-X is a ~200 NIS Gigabit router with integrated switch chip. I love these little Ubiquiti devices!
> DataSheet: https://dl.ubnt.com/datasheets/edgemax/EdgeRouter_X_DS.pdf
> -mike
>
>
> > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 7:21 PM Yuval Adam <_ at yuv.al> wrote:
> > > Definitely the TP-Link, they have great hardware and that device works great as an xDSL modem.
> > > Furthermore, D-Link devices tend to run on outdated kernels.
> > >
> > > Put the TP-Link in bridge mode to minimize attack surface, use it just as a dumb modem, and put a proper OpenWrt box behind it.
> > >
> > > On 5/21/20 6:59 PM, vordoo wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Think I'm down to: TP-Link TD-W9970 vs D-Link DSL-224. Any recommendations/thoughts/war-story's are highly appreciated. Sadly they both do not support dd-wrt or open-wrt, it looks like no ADSL modem does these days, so that will need an extra box.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > >
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