I would agree with everything below and add a couple of things. It is very hard to find units for sale with larger ram and rom nowadays. The incentive for the manufacturers was to drive down ram and rom. You have to pay close attention to the version number, different versions of the same product can be wildly different, even a different chip and OS! Linksys doesn't put version numbers on the box, you have to decode the serial numbers.
AFAIK, none of the open software supports N features yet, though they may run on N hardware. I could be wrong about that though, some people seem to have a lot of time on their hands. Cheers, Bob Eugene, OR - Tucson, AZ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Barrett Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 4:03 AM To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Re: cheap dd-wrt capable router And for hardware, if one has a convenient way to refer to some good model spec references, to know what chipsets, CPU speeds & RAM are in which models, one is empowered to surf 2nd-hand stores, yard sales, bargain bins at places like Fry's, etc. One good such list is at http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices as you've prolly seen. 8MB is nice to have, but if you seek simple router functions why worry? It'd be nice to run snort on the thing, maybe => The mostly-similar broadcom units have a great chance of running the alternative firmwares, afaict. I've heard good things about the buffalo routers providing a better price-point on the budget end... the problem I'm seeing now is that it is harder to find older hardware, so we can get one of the AirStation 125's for close for $40 online but I'm sure a batch of older-model b/g devices could be found for under $30 new (not used or refurb). On the used end, if you found say a box of unsupported units really cheap at some auction, send a handful of them off to the devs, and wait :) I'm the hopeful type. The wikipedia node http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD-WRT has a bunch of good info too, and you can see tomato & others listed under "Alternatives" there. cheerio, ~ben On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Ben Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You might want a more open environment... look at tomato which was discussed in euglug threads earlier this year about custom router firmwarzen, mostly netgear and linksys hw but a variety of firmware topics :) http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato/ Good prior posts: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg12282.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg11826.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg11746.html (props to Allen Brown for these posts!) ~ben On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Dave Compton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Ben, No, I'm not doing anything at all with the "n" part. For that matter, I'm not doing anything interesting with the "b/g" part other than verifying that it works. My reason for getting this router was to try out the development environment for dd-wrt and/or other open source router firmware. I don't know of *any* similarly-priced models, new or refurb, with or without 802.11n, that support dd-wrt. There are cheaper routers but I have not seen any that support dd-wrt. This might just show that I'm not too good at searching but it's hard to beat $35 by much. If you or anyone else out there knows of a cheaper dd-wrt compatible router, please let me know. One reason that I didn't want to spend a lot on this router is that there is some chance that I might ruin it. Hopefully that will not happen but if it does, I don't want much cash invested in a paperweight. On the subject of writing code to run under dd-wrt, does anyone reading this have any experience along those lines? Most of the instructions I have seen are about recompiling/rebuilding the dd-wrt O/S but I would rather start with a "hello world" program. - Dave Ben Barrett wrote: So are you doing anything interesting with the "n" part? Or just b/g? ...and, since you've done your homework, does this model provide substantially more RAM & CPU than similarly-priced new models (not refurb)? ~ben On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Dave Compton <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: I am interested in router hacking but didn't want to pay too much for a open source compatible router. This week, frys.com <http://frys.com> has a refurbished Netgear WNR834B(v2) 802.11n router for $35 - shipping included. I got one of these a couple of days ago and now have dd-wrt running on it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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