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2008-10-29, 16:41
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Perhaps i should ask somehwere else on the internet...

Does anyone know any cheap home routers that allows execution of applications. Like an FTP server or a Qizmo or mvdsv?

I assume there are routers running on linux. That would be capable of doing this. If an HDD was included and the processor wasnt to bad.

Perhaps such device is no longer called router but something else (Computer?).
2008-10-29, 17:07
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I have tried running a qw server on the ASUS WL-500g wireless router and it didn't work very well. It seems 200 MHz was not enough to run player physics 77 times a second, even for one player.

As for things like an ftp server, irc server or bouncer, torrent downloader, all that and more is possible with a device supported by OpenWRT.
I haven't heard of any routers on x86 architecture though, so I don't think you'll be able to run Qizmo.
2008-10-29, 17:29
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Just so I understand correctly. WRT replaces the firmware provided by the manufacturer or will it run alongside the software installed?

Hmm, if there was a qw-packet-router-application for this architecture, do you think the CPU would be up for the task?
2008-10-29, 18:34
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A slightly more powerful (and very configurable) toy is the slug: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2
2008-10-30, 09:48
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Willgurht, OpenWRT replaces the factory firmware.

Willgurht wrote:
Hmm, if there was a qw-packet-router-application for this architecture, do you think the CPU would be up for the task?

Well, if there is an open-source qw-packet-router-application (qtv?), you should certainly give it a try. OpenWRT's cross-compiling kit is pretty straightforward to use. I suppose the CPU should handle a couple of users.
2008-10-31, 08:31
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OpenWRT ftw - but if you want easy to use webinterface with a lot of the same features as openwrt, use www.dd-wrt.com
2008-10-31, 16:58
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For completeness I'll mention that OpenWRT too has an easy to use webinterface called X-wrt. There's also a bunch of screenshots. Anyway, as Tonik mentioned, you'll probably need to compile stuff yourself, since most such routers aren't x86, and most QW project only have x86 images prebuilt.
2008-11-03, 09:12
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But x-wrt is not as fully featured as dd-wrt is, and is more buggy
2008-11-07, 11:06
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I run a QuakeWorld server on my D-Link DNS-313 NAS drive.
It works just fine.
2008-11-07, 11:10
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eak wrote:
I run a QuakeWorld server on my D-Link DNS-313 NAS drive.
It works just fine.

Which server do you run?

Any idea of what CPU load u get when there is 8 clients?
2008-11-08, 14:54
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qwsv compiled from id source
No clue have only tested it with 1 player connected and not looked at the load.
I'm going to recompile the kernel for it with that new experimental floating point unit emulator.
That should make the quake server run way faster. because in the kernel conif menu it says floating point calculations 3-6times faster then the old emulator. And the quake is kindof only floating point calculations everywhere.
2008-11-08, 20:02
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mmm, floating point. So could it be that the MIPS CPU on my router lacks floating point ops and the emulator was too slow?
2008-11-09, 08:29
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Maby or the server was just compiled with some bad CFLAGS. i got it to run realy choppy when i tested out some diffrent cflags while doing some test compiles.
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