William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 22:58 -0400, Kyle Gonzales wrote: > >> My recommendation: buy a router that you can load DD-WRT or OpenWRT or >> the like on, and use that. It will give you infinitely more control >> and stability, and greatly extend the life and usefulness of that >> hardware. >> > > I second that, I can't believe how well they will perform with different > firmware. I was very impressed with DD-WRT on a Linksys WRT54GL. > > Also same applies for my Android based T-Mobile G1. Which runs way > better and has more software features with the Cyanogenmod than with the > firmware/version of Android provided by T-Mobile. > > Not sure what that means for closed source software going forward, but > leave hardware to manufacturers and software to the community, for the > most part. > I wonder if that would be an interesting meeting topic: How to flash and configure OpenWRT, DD-WRT and the like on cheap older model home routers. The web interface for OpenWRT is amazing, and blows away anything I have seen on the regular home routers.
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