If you don't want to do all that configuration, PFSense is a good alternative. <a href="https://www.pfsense.org/download/" rel="nofollow">https://www.pfsense.org/download/</a><p>PFSense is the same thing below the hood, but with a web front-end and plugins.<p>Most off the shelf wireless routers work fine as an access point, but are quite bad as a router. So you can just plug your old wireless router into this thing (with DHCP etc turned off), and your whole setup will be much better.
Ubiquiti's EdgeRouter Lite is a popular, fast, cheap (<$100), solution in this space.<p>People are running FreeBSD and Linux on it:<p><a href="http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2016-01-10-FreeBSD-EdgeRouter-Lite.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2016-01-10-FreeBSD-EdgeRoute...</a><p><a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/MIPS/ERLite-3" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/MIPS/ERLite-3</a>
Here's a tutorial for doing the same thing with OpenBSD from a few years ago: <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/openbsd-router" rel="nofollow">http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/openbsd-router</a>
I wonder how well the Turris Omnia[1] will compare to a homebrew solution like this.<p>[1]<a href="https://omnia.turris.cz/en/" rel="nofollow">https://omnia.turris.cz/en/</a>
I had trouble getting a hold of one of those C1037U boxes from China. The seller would 'run out of stock' frequently if I found one for a decent price.<p>I ended up going with the APU2B4 board (an upgrade from the APU1D mentioned in the article.) I put pfSense on it, and it's been running perfect for a few weeks now.<p>Even that board is probably massive overkill for most people. I have 50/50 internet, and with full bandwidth used by torrents, a VPN and ssh session open to the router, and the web interface open, I'm still only getting about 10-15% CPU.<p><a href="http://pcengines.ch/apu2b4.htm" rel="nofollow">http://pcengines.ch/apu2b4.htm</a>
This is also a nice simple and cheap device running OpenWRT ($25) with Wireless N, 2 100 mbit lan and USB: <a href="https://revspace.nl/GL-iNet" rel="nofollow">https://revspace.nl/GL-iNet</a> - <a href="http://www.gl-inet.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gl-inet.com/</a>.<p>I've got a about 50 deployed, managing them with Ansible, super nice and cheap. USB powered as well.
It is almost 4 years since World IPv6 Launch. I’m very disappointed that, other than a few randomly timed rants from Iljitsch van Beijnum, Ars Technica has made no visible movement to IPv6. No AAAA record for Arstechnica.com, no guides to installing IPv6, and now a tutorial for setting up routers spreading FUD about how difficult it is to install IPv6.
I have been running Linux boxes for 20 years as my home router, but just recently bought a Cisco RV325. Sort of got tired of maintaining it, and it took allot more power.<p>How will these smaller, embedded motherboards handle 1G Ethernet? Will be getting google fiber within next year.
I'd like to play with Linux on this multi-nic board when I get some time and money <a href="http://www.banana-pi.org/r1.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.banana-pi.org/r1.html</a>