Detection DD-WRT User
Joined: 19 Jan 2012 Posts: 403 Location: UK
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 22:51 Post subject: Re: Recommended firmware (and instructions) for WRT160NL |
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Corosion wrote: |
Thanks for the quick reply.
Would you recommend the WRT160NL? Did you have any particular issues with this model? Are you using the USB port?
Cheers. |
I got mine free so had not done any research before getting it, its an old SamKnows monitoring router that I unlocked
Its a decent router, only 10/100 LAN ports though
WiFi seems decent enough, I can still connect 3 houses down the street with my phone on wireless N
I'm using the USB port for a USB to IDE adapter powering a 2.5" Laptop HDD 80GB
I use that with Samba enabled to stream video to my machines, and stream to my Roku box using Plex Media Server running on the PC which all works great
Transfer speeds to and from the HDD are around 10MB/s since the latest firmware using EXT4 filesystem on the drive
I guess the only cons for me are the LAN ports only being 10/100 and not Gigabit and the USB being slow
For a normal / medium sized and use home network its a good little router, but if you were wanting to stream / transfer to multiple devices / machines at once I think it would start to struggle with the USB and LAN ports _________________ TPLINK TL-WR2543ND (5GHz)
WRT160NL (2.4GHz) |
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