Comment Re:no USB? (Score 1) 182
If you use openwrt, you don't just have an access point. You have a surprisingly capable Linux-based computer. There are hundreds, and maybe thousands of packages for openwrt. For a $99.00 router plus a $20.00 flash drive, you get an amazingly flexible little linux box.
I have over 30 OpenWRT boxes in the wild, out at my customers' sites. They act as WAPs, VPN endpoints, stateful packet filtering firewall, NAT, usb print server, usb external drive smb shares, testing points (nmap, tcpdump, ngrep), and the list goes on. A similarly functional device from cisco would be thousands of dollars. For a small business running a single T1, DSL, or cable internet, it is the best thing going.
I have over 30 OpenWRT boxes in the wild, out at my customers' sites. They act as WAPs, VPN endpoints, stateful packet filtering firewall, NAT, usb print server, usb external drive smb shares, testing points (nmap, tcpdump, ngrep), and the list goes on. A similarly functional device from cisco would be thousands of dollars. For a small business running a single T1, DSL, or cable internet, it is the best thing going.
