I understand as its generic firmware, I assume there will be many different compatible hardware options. The big thing though is the voip needs to be capable which may reduce your compatibility list.
The market in NZ has dramatically changed with computer stores selling less and less routers, and the home users just using the router issued free from their ISP.
And to make it work for an ISP in a fibre world, it needs to have a built in voip ATA
Software:
- WAN/LAN bridge mode
- uPNP
- IPv4 / IPv6
- Programmable 0.0.0.0/0 or gateway address when lan + wan in bridge mode
- voip must work when in bridge mode. Have had problems with zyxel and others having no gateway address breaking voip when in bridge mode
- router must be accessible from behind another nat gateway via a port forward. Enabling WAN admin access doesn’t always make this work with many routers
Hardware:
- Price point of $40-$50 so we can issue them free with service
- A higher priced, higher speed option would be good for fibre based services
- 3dbi antenna, 18db tx power
- 802.11n 2.4ghz option. We don’t see the need for ac for at least 3 years
There was recently a project between geekzone and telecom to build a "standard router for NZ" which was designed to be the perfect one with all the features that the GZ community wanted, could be issued for free by telecom and was capable of being used for DSL and fibre.
They got as far as taking bids for the project from companies like huawei and the likes.
Most of the features that the GZ community were proposing I found to be useless as an isp supplied router, but it would be worth looking at the feature list.
I think a bit of googling might be needed to get to the feature voting page in the forums - it may have been deleted.
Ray Taylor
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Taht [mailto:dave.taht(a)gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 10 March 2015 11:45 a.m.
To: Ray Taylor
Subject: Re: [nznog] openwrt capable routers for NZ?
always helpful to have that list. And have that list discussed publicly.
This is the only public talk I have given about wifi... see second half.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wksh2DPHCDI
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Ray Taylor
Im keen to take part Wouldn’t know anything about designing firmware other than the list of features that I need.
Ray Taylor Taylor Communications ray(a)ruralkiwi.com
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-----Original Message----- From: nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Dave Taht Sent: Tuesday, 10 March 2015 11:14 a.m. To: Jed Laundry Cc: NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] openwrt capable routers for NZ?
I see this thread has kind of died... I am looking for people willing to participate in the upcoming make-wifi-fast project. Along the way, we'll probably build a pretty good firmware for general use on some off-the-shelves piece of hardware, and it would be good to be able to test with your upcoming fiber deployment(s) as well as on the WISP sides of things.
Please let me and jim gettys know if you are interested in helping out on this.
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