as a followup to my posting yesterday about a LUG-wide project to select a single decent wireless router and make an openwrt project out of it, i ran across the netgear WNDR3700 (v2). you can see the brief specs here: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start#netgear and a more detailed doc here: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wndr3700 as well as a detailed writeup on how to download, build and install here: http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howtobuild/build.wndr3700 which suggests it should be a safe choice, and it would seem to have all of the features i'd minimally want, including at least one USB port, plus a serial port and JTAG in case someone wants to get ambitious. it's available at canada computers for $139: http://canadacomputers.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=netgear+wndr3700&x=0&y=0 which is, admittedly, a bit pricey for a wireless router but it is dual band and gigabit so there's that. i updated my openwrt source tree and followed the instructions in that third link and, other than a couple trivial updates to the recipe, i got an image to build. haven't tested it yet since i don't have the router, but i know CC has 3 in stock in their rideau store so i'm planning on popping down there today and getting one. thoughts? are there any fatal drawbacks to this choice of router? any alternative suggestions? the fact that it's listed as supported and that someone wrote a fairly complete recipe for building the image already suggests it would be hard to go wrong, but i'm open to dissenting opinions. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================