2013-07-16 08:50:59 +00:00
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[[!meta title="New Linux wireless gigabit Linux router for ungleich office"]]
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[[!img rb2011uas2hnd-in.jpg alt="Mikrotik RB2011UAS-2HnD-IN"]]
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## Introduction
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We are getting a new 150Mbit/s (down) Internet connection
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in the [ungleich office](http://www.ungleich.ch) in August 2013.
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Unfortunately, our current router **katze**, a
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[Soekris net5501](http://soekris.com/products/net5501.html),
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is not able to process 150 Mbit/s, as it contains only
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Fast Ethernet interfaces.
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So it's time for a geeky replacement.
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## Searching for available products
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What's the best plattform to search for a Linux based
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router that is probably good supported by FOSS?
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I started to cross match devices from the local
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vendor [digitec](http://www.digitec.ch) with the list
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of [supported device of OpenWRT](http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start).
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Essentially I was looking for devices with
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* high cpu speed (to be able to handle gigabit traffic)
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* some memory to flash an open image like OpenWRT on it
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* support for hardware already in the Linux kernel
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* support for at least 802.11n, 802.11ac optional
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## Selecting a router
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After digging into the specs of many routers, the
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[TP-Link Archer C7](http://www.tp-link.com.de/products/details/?categoryid=2872&model=Archer+C7) looked pretty well and even supports 802.11ac.
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Drawback: It has only 8 MiB of flash attached
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and its [OpenWRT and 802.11ac support](https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=44201) is still work in progress.
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Given that all our clients support 802.11n only currently,
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2013-07-16 08:53:53 +00:00
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I was considering other routers as well. Remembering that
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I've recently installed a
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[RB750GL](http://routerboard.com/RB750GL)
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at [panter](http://www.panter.ch) and seen some
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Mikrotik devices on the OpenWRT page, I also checked out
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their website, which brings me to the router I chose:
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[RB2011UAS-2HnD-IN](http://routerboard.com/RB2011UAS-2HnD-IN):
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* Gigabit, 802.11n supported
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* Should be OpenWRT supported using nand flash
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* Geeky LCD
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* 11W power consumption
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As [Mikrotik](http://www.mikrotik.com/)
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seems to produce a lot of cool devices, the decision
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was also made to support this company instead of the usual
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big ones.
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[[!tag net unix foss ungleich]]
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