As stable as it is, wireless still drops with openwrt firmware (although I compile my own, might be that). It's even worse on stock firmware IIRC though. That said, cronjob of restarting wireless every 1 hour works, and is not long enough to drop other ppls' connections. At least, nobody in the house notices .

That said.. my uptime, IDK.. about 3 months I think as long as TNB hasn't cut off the power.

I kinda wanna get back into the forums.

I forgot to say, yay, an openwrt user among us. I disappeared after I posted a small guide on using openwrt with unifi (without IPTV support). I now have IPTV support but I never updated the guide.

You just got lucky (and probably unlucky for WRD4300). The current drivers for atheros (the chip used in openwrt for wireless) has intermittent issues. In some WR1043ND wireless works flawlessly. While others, you have intermittent issues. That said, I haven't tried the stable versions, only stuck with the nightlies. Might try it one day but eh... I'm kinda satisfied now.

https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/11862 This link is the issue I'm talking about.

My WR1043ND (I have 3) is 1.3, 1.4 and 1.6 respectively I believe. They're old, and not among the newer versions. I should have had 4, but lol, let's just say it went missing one day .

My recommendations is that anyone using openwrt, login to your openwrt screen > system > scheduled task > add the following line and press submit:

0 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22 * * * wifi down; sleep 1; wifi up

OR

0 * * * * wifi down; sleep 1; wifi up

First line restarts wifi every 2 hours. second line restarts wifi every 1 hour. One of my router is so unstable, it needs an hourly restart. My other two router, one lasts forever, and another one lasts half a day before wifi starts going haywire. Just read a bit on crontab so that you can adjust it to your needs. That said, the router that lasts half a day with wifi usually have ~30 clients connected to it over wifi. That dhcp table always freaks me out when I looked at the logs, haha.


WR1043ND is a beast. The best entry-level openwrt router so far with 8 MB flash and a USB port. So is OpenWRT. Takes so much punishment, oh man.

As for torrents, I'm going to recommend having a dedicated server regardless if anyone intend to go that way. Even my current rig had just finished 3 TB in ~1 year. Gonna die at this rate, I don't have anymore SATA ports nor slots for this PC to put more hard disks.


I'll see if I can start a quick guide for openwrt one of these days. It's not that hard, and I could just abuse the backup feature to upload a default settings for anyone.

This post has been edited by blindbox: Jan 11 2014, 06:43 PM

I have too many custom stuff running on my openwrt. Mostly it's for extended monitoring but there's QoS and custom firewall rules among other things. I also have wifi bridging to increase make wifi work over my whole house so there's that, too. There is really no point for me to buy a more expensive router, either. I can deal with my wifi restarting every 1 hour, hell, my users don't notice it. I haven't tested gaming with it though, and see if it's affected or if the delay is small enough to just accept it as a lag spike. My main reason to go openwrt is to save money anyway, heh. Cheap router but extremely good software.

That said, here's a good openwrt guide.


http://myjowenunifi.blogspot.com/2013/01/i...ng-openwrt.html For setting up unifi
http://myjowenunifi.blogspot.com/2013/01/s...ink-mr3420.html For setting up hypptv.

This post has been edited by blindbox: Jan 11 2014, 06:49 PM