Agreed. For a freebie router that's just to give a customer wireless it's not worth the bother. But if you have to do WDS on the customer side or if the user is a special client/family/friend and you are trying to do something a little different or special the other firmwares sometimes offer features that are necessary.

Greg
On Apr 28, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Steve Barnes wrote:

Maybe I am just missing something here but why in the world would you want to buy a bunch of SOHO routers and re-flash them to another OS? I have seen this thread before on here and didn't have time to ask the reason. I have no time to mess with taking every unit out of a box and flash and test then reseal it and go to the next. I buy 20 Trendnet SOHO 802.11G basic routers for $28 each and drop them in the trucks. Never had a bad one, they all come with a 5ft cable and just work. If a customer wants a router then they pay $45. If they need better distance than I get them a N router later. Last thing I want to do is mess with them all. Heck I hate programming radios. I am working on a plan to just stack Tranzeo's in the truck and upload the config from the laptop.

DLink = Lock up all the time at lease the WBR-1310, 30 min no power to reset. Have a pile in back room
Linksys = WRT54G ok but had 20 die in one month right at 2 years
Buffalo = was good all but the WHR-G125(junky design poor signal) didn't know was available again.
Trendnet = 130+ in field no return very few calls require reset.
TPLink = Good High power unit very adjustable only used 10 so far. Good USB wireless Adapter as well.

Steve Barnes
RCWiFi Wireless Internet Service


-----Original Message-----
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of os10ru...@gmail.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:36 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] 802.11 a, b, g "booster"

It doesn't appear the DIR-655 supports tftp firmware flashing. Too bad, that might have been a way to revert to the older firmware.
Another reason to say with the more open source Linux based boxes.

Greg

On Apr 28, 2009, at 12:02 PM, Dylan Oliver wrote:

I helped a friend with a D-Link DIR-655 yesterday and was shocked/
disgusted to find that although it HAD supported bridge mode in
firmware 1.05, this feature was removed in 1.10+ and of course it
wouldn't accept the older firmware as an upgrade. Must be some way but
a $90 router is only worth so much tinkering.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Josh Luthman
<j...@imaginenetworksllc.com>wrote:

Dlink has been pretty stable for me.  I like the GUI most of all as
it is emulated online, helps me walk through the person on the phone.

They all do take turns sucking the most, I agree, Rick.

--
Dylan Oliver
Primaverity, LLC
Sweeping Design LLC


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