Not to swing this from FIOS to dd-wrt but while I had picked that exact router out for my next dd-wrt purchase, the online docs said that it has intermittant wifi failures.<div><a href="http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Buffalo_WZR-HP-G300NH#DD-WRT_on_Buffalo_WZR-HP-G300NH">http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Buffalo_WZR-HP-G300NH#DD-WRT_on_Buffalo_WZR-HP-G300NH</a></div>
<div>there is a script in there that is a "fix" for wifi dropouts.</div><div><br></div><div>Have you had any issues?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Duncan Hutty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dhutty@ece.cmu.edu">dhutty@ece.cmu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On 06/17/2011 11:02 AM, Martin James Gehrke wrote:<br>
> I have FIOS for about year before I moved out of the area.<br>
> I loved it. Right now I have Armstrong and it just doesn't compare.<br>
> I paid the extra for the 25/25 symmetrical and I really got 25/25, whereas<br>
> now I have 15/5 and I am lucky to get 10/3.<br>
><br>
> With FIOS you are required to use their router which is an Actiontec<br>
> MI424WR. If you want to do DD-WRT this can be a pain.<br>
<br>
</div>There are various different versions of the MI424WR (A-E at least). Some<br>
of which are straightforward to change to an opensource router that you<br>
can control, some much less so.<br>
<br>
I just bought something that I know will work easily, buffalo<br>
wzr-hp-g300nh which has 32Mb flash and 64Mb ram. from the openwrt wiki:<br>
"easy to flash and hard to brick. Quite possibly the best<br>
gigabit-capable router that openwrt runs on at this point".<br>
<br>
Lots of help in the wiki and elsewhere for those who are unfamiliar,<br>
openwrt on this device is able to run various network services for my<br>
network and happily routes mail, voip and all sorts of other stuff to<br>
other machines in my network.<br>
<br>
Once I had a tech move my FIOS from coax to ethernet, I haven't had a<br>
problem, before there were problems every few months or so, but as noted<br>
previously you have to use coax if you want TV service (or phone, I think).<br>
<br>
The only other point that I'm aware of is that they block port 25, so<br>
my mailserver relays to my colo through port 587.<br>
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Carnegie Mellon University<br>
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