Jeromie Reeves wrote: > Have you been changing the firmware on them? The majority of the > problem with consumer routers is the software is built 'fast and > lose'. I find the WRT54G/GS units to work well once changed.
We buy the Linksys WRT54GL (basically, the old/good WRT54G before they started taking out half the RAM and using a different, flakier processor), and it's pretty solid as-is. If you need special features or just have a customer you really like, flashing that router with something like DD-WRT makes it even better. Three or four years back, we were flashing WRT54Gs and using them as wireless client devices. Now that the firmware has improved (a lot), it might be worthwhile to revisit that notion. Configured properly, it's a decent wireless client radio (Broadcom chipset, I believe), with integrated NAT and a four-port switch, and can be had for under seventy bucks in small quantity. Since the radio is built-in, that's even cheaper than the low-end Mikrotik boards. David Smith MVN.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
