one-day sale on hackable wireless router

[Christopher Browne]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:23 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.

What I've tended to find (after not really working on it terribly hard
:-)) is that extra capabilities aren't always all that they're cracked
up to be.  I want my router to be a simple appliance, and adding extra
things to need to manage adversely affects that simplicity.

I have been running an ASUS WL-500W, lately, and while it has the
*potential* to do lots of extra stuff (e.g. - it can host a bittorrent
server, if I plug in a USB disk), the more I try to add to it, the
less that it is a simple appliance that I can easily re-initialize.
And it seems to drop wireless connectivity more often than I like.

It seems plausible that a simpler WRT54GL would be more reliable, and
that might be better, even though theoretically it isn't nearly as
capable.
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