Does anyone use any of the third party router/AP firmwares (DD-WRT, OpenWRT, Tomato, etc.) in an office environment?
How many users does it handle well?
How long have you been using it?
I understand one of the risks is limited support but the cost savings could justify that.
We have used DDWRT for over a year now and have never had an prob with it. We run it on a WRT54G that is on and open to the public 24/7. I may have had to restart it 3 times in the last year or so. We frequently have 15-25 wireless users.
There is plenty of support for DDWRT online and I would definitely recommend it. If you have read anything about it you know that it has a ton of features that just arent available anywhere else. (features here http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/What_is_%22DD-WRT%22%3F#Features )
I am also running it at home on the same router, which lives in my HOT attic. The temperature doesnt seem to affect it at all, even under a heavy load.
We use them everywhere, I think we got about a hundred used in production, from simple firewalls to asterix nodes. We have standardized on ASUS WL-500GP hardware. We have developed some scripts in-house to handle upgrades and "config" snapshots. The only thing we really miss is accelerated crypto for OpenVPN.
We use OpenWRT at work, both in the office and DC. It'll handle as many machines as your wireless bandwidth will support, as far as I can tell. I don't know how long we've been using it, it was here when I got here.
We use DD-WRT on a Linksys router. It handles 20 users just fine, been using it for over a year, much more powerful than standard Linksys firmware.
