seeking WiFi router

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:42:59PM -0400, Taavi Burns wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:36:21 -0400, David J Patrick
> <davidjpatrick-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > I'm shopping for a WiFi (802.11b or g) router to use at home.
> > Ideally it will feature 802.11g with ~4port ethernet. I have seen, on
> > College St, Micro$soft and Netgear units, that seem to fit the bill.
> > Anyone have any suggestions re: linux friendly hardware for a good price
> > ?
> 
> The LinkSys WRT54G gets rather good reviews, particularly from the linux
> front.  (this may have something to do with the fact that the router runs linux
> internally)

My parents (non wireless) linksys crashes about once a week, so so far I
am not impressed by them.  I wonder if they have unofficial firmware
that makes them more stable.

> Sveasoft provides some custom firmware:
> http://www.sveasoft.com/
> 
> There's even a sourceforge project:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/wifi-box/
> 
> Or how about just installing a userland to play with:
> http://www.batbox.org/wrt54g-linux.html
> 
> Currently selling for $85:
> http://www.canadacomputers.com/networking2.html#wir

I should go check if they have stuff for the non wireless model then.

Lennart Sorensen
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