one-day sale on hackable wireless router
D. Hugh Redelmeier
hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Wed Sep 3 15:23:34 UTC 2008
Dell is selling the Linksys WRT54GL wireless router for $39.99 today. I
expect that shipping is free. (Canada Computers current price is $66.99.)
http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/hotdeals_redhot?c=ca&cs=cadhs1&l=en&s=dhs&dgc=AF&cid=3881&lid=77903
This is the classic router for running OpenWRT and other third-party
firmware. All this firmware is Linux based, including the original
firmware delivered in the router.
I prefer other routers with more capability (but they cost
more). In particular, there are other routers with twice the flash, twice
the RAM and even USB ports.
A good source for information about router hardware and OpenWRT support
is: http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware
One downside of many of these routers, including the WRT54GL is that it
uses a Broadcom wireless chip. Open source drivers for the chip don't
work yet for router use so you are stuck with the binary driver which
means you are stuck with a 2.4 kernel.
The lack of 802.11n may be an issue for some.
Having said all that, the WRT54GL is certainly the standard hackable
router. Thus it is the best supported. Its limitations only show up when
you want to get really creative.
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