So has anyone used any of the open hardware alternatives, like routerboard.com ? Seems like having the schematics and the firmware would be a reasonable place to be.
I looked into these kind of things but I'm in an odd position where I need an ADSL2+ chipset of a certain kind (Broadcom with good noise filtering) because of the state of my phonelines.
I was looking into running an ADSL modem in full-bridge mode (you'd be surprised how many of these modems don't support that anymore) + a routerboard or mirotik product, but when you add up the cost and configuration time it just wasn't worth it.
I'm currently running a Billion 7800VDPX, which I now have the GPL sources to (after some prodding). When I finally have some time to sit down and risk bricking my device, I'll have a look at getting OpenWRT working (although at last glance they were never going to support ADSL).
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So has anyone used any of the open hardware alternatives, like routerboard.com ? Seems like having the schematics and the firmware would be a reasonable place to be.
I looked into these kind of things but I'm in an odd position where I need an ADSL2+ chipset of a certain kind (Broadcom with good noise filtering) because of the state of my phonelines.
I was looking into running an ADSL modem in full-bridge mode (you'd be surprised how many of these modems don't support that anymore) + a routerboard or mirotik product, but when you add up the cost and configuration time it just wasn't worth it.
I'm currently running a Billion 7800VDPX, which I now have the GPL sources to (after some prodding). When I finally have some time to sit down and risk bricking my device, I'll have a look at getting OpenWRT working (although at last glance they were never going to support ADSL).
tl;dr: open hardware alternatives aren't easy enough to drop in yet, or they're not really open - http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:License