if you want "future proof" you could aways go and get a few of these
http://www.wifi-stock.com/details/ubiquity_rs.html RouterStation motherboards at
44.66€ and populate seperately at more cost OC, with your choice of (upto3) miniPCi radio's
the key points for this (wireless) router motherboard being the
far better grade of CPU onboard than the tat thats inside all so called consumer grade router UK sales such as VM etc sell you (OC its sold,before someone tryed and currect it, what do you think £50 of the £80 installation fee, Plus the initial one months pre-payed 50Mbit VM BB fee OC..., is for), and bigger memory footprint onboard as a generic thing.
OC Atheros MIPS SOC are not your far better industrial grade PPC+Altivec SIMD (powerPC) based router SOC/CPU ,but at
680MHz ,they are more than good enough for your average SOHO/larger home networks for low power use.
although the current and upcoming microPC motherboards are getting there, RouterStation motherboards still seem to have the edge as you get real power and future proofing as long as there are 11n ,Wimax and related mini PCi cards made available for them and the Linux OS drivers to match....
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Over all system configuration
- CPU Atheros AR7161 MIPS 24K running @ 680MHz
- MEMORY DDR 64MB
- FLASH SPI 16MB
- Three MINI-PCI Slots supports Type IIIA
- One USB 2.0 Host
- One UART
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infact the only down side seems to be they are only 10/100 fast ethernet ports, not todays generic 1000/1gig ethernet router ports, your wise to be buying today....
http://wiki.ubnt.com/wiki/index.php/RouterStation
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RouterStation Software Specs
RouterStation ships with OpenWRT Kamikaze. Ubiquiti only provides limited support for the software, but full support for the hardware.
All documentation for the use of OpenWRT can be found at the following website:
http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/docs/openwrt.html
Please look forward to a quick setup guide for a single radio setup.
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its odd though , given the Pro nature of these boards and supplyers, they DONT seem to carry 11n miniPCI radio's or even list them, but we know they exist as they are in a LOT of laptops today... and senao/EnGenius make one or two...
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Originally Posted by CHiLL
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you can advise these old 11
G ONLY routers all you want but your NOT ever going to get more than 20Mbit out of them over the wireless connections with uncompressable binary torrent files and the like, more like 15Mbit or less MAX with that low grade CPU/SOC inside.
only upper mid and high range 11
N routers with better CPU's (you need to check the real PCB board spec ,forget the brand sticker on the outside) can really cope with the 50Mbit VM and all security options turned on.
but just about all 11N's will manage upto 60Mbit/s (11n to 11n only, with NO 11
g/b wirelessly connected) if your careful with your security options, but that takes time to get your head around, and get right, on a place by place install....