Airport alternative

[Neal H. Walfield]

At Sun, 13 Jul 2014 18:06:54 +0100,
Allan Irving wrote:
> I need something to do what it does, similarly but cannot think of a simple
> solution off the top of my head. Simply a router to work on an existing set
> up that can connect via Wifi and therefore extend the network and allow me
> to have a private sub network with a hard drive and printer attached to the
> Airport alternative, allowing me to have my own private network drive and
> printer on a  university network.
> 
> Any ideas?

If you want it private, I'd use a VPN (I like tinc).  As for the rest,
your favorite GNU/Linux distribution should suffice.

Neal