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How to disable SSO login?
Hi here! I'm happy owner of Netgear WAC124 access point. Firmware Version V1.0.4.4 When setup first time I've created netgear account and registered the product. But on next logins it always re...
Just as an update - I have applied OpenWRT to this access point now - installation was a easy but I had to get in via the lan ports to set the password and then follow separate instructions to get the web interface going which was a little bit fiddly - It is now all up and running with the configuration I want and loads of extras that this access point could not do before. Hopefully it will be stable with it which will take a few weeks to find out. If not I already have a dlink access point on order which is slightly slower but I can live with that since my broadband is very slow any way.
Thanks for update!
But I believe switching to openwrt firware - disables warranty, doesn't it?
Also, just curious, any other benefits you get from openwrt firware?
Yes I believe the warrenty is void but there are propably ways of getting the original firmware back on the device although I was not really too worried about that since the device is not that expensive in the first place.
Feature wise some of the stuff I wanted I could not get on the stock firmware are (but there are tons more):
- ssh access: I can now ssh into the device and use standard Unix/Linux commands to administrate it and fiddle with stuff that was not available before
- There are repositories for the openwrt stuff that give you access to additional tools like SNMP and advanced firewall features. I even saw Asterisk/Voip stuff in the repos. The SNMP access is useful for me since I can now use my Cacti setup (https://www.cacti.net/) to graph the utilisation of the device.
- You can have more SSID's for guest networks etc and you can customize all of them rather then the 3rd ssid on the stock firmware not giving you access to the LAN ports etc.
- The web gui of openwrt has live graphs to monitor traffic and you can tell from the device at what rates devices are connected to it.
You will loose the RedySHARE stuff that is build into it but the repos have standard samba server and FTP server stuff available for the device so you can propably configure something more advanced with that but I was not using that anyway and only use this device as a plain access point to extend my existing network. The only reason I got this device is the higher throughput rates then what my legacy netgear and cisco stuff offers.
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