[TriLUG] Linksys long in the tooth?

[James Tuttle]

DD-WRT rocks.

Neil L. Little wrote:
> There is 3rd party SW for WRT54v8. The down side is there is no easy 
> recovery if you brick it.
> 73,
> Neil, WA4AZL
> JARS Forever!!
> 
> Michael Tharp wrote:
>> James Brigman wrote:
>>   
>>> I'm starting to suspect that the Linksys products' only, fading
>>> advantage is running OpenWRT
>>>     
>> You're probably right. I had a dead Netgear that needed resetting on a 
>> daily basis (it was nearly two years old, not that surprising), which I 
>> replaced with a brand new WRT54Gv8. It worked fine for about two months, 
>> then started tipping over with any large transfer (downloads, 
>> bittorrent, etc.). It's only gotten worse since then. Because it's a 
>> revision 8, I can't put open firmware on it (that I know of), and since 
>> it's based on a Broadcom chipset I doubt the hardware is worth salvaging 
>> anyway.
>>
>> So I did the only sensible thing to do: last weekend, I dug a mini-itx 
>> board out of the closet originally destined to be a carputer, threw 
>> m0n0wall on it, and it's been working perfectly and even doing packet 
>> shaping. The Linksys is sitting on top of it and serving as an AP.
>>
>> I'll keep your suggestion in mind, should I ever need to buy a SOHO 
>> router for a friend/relative/etc. Unfortunately, PCs in a form factor 
>> suitable for router duty aren't nearly as cheap as the pre-built stuff.
>>
>> -- m. tharp
>>   


-- 
--
---Jim Tuttle
------------------------------------------------------
http://www.braggtown.com
PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x69B69B08