think twice about buying Linksys routers

[sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org]

I was thinking of flashing the firmware on my Linksys router to 
something else.

Sad that Tomato won't work on my WRT610N :-(

Also, it seems that dd-wrt is fraught with known bugs.

On 6 Jul 2012 at 7:21, Colin McGregor wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:42 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > <http://www.extremetech.com/computing/132142-ciscos-cloud-vision-mandatory-monetized-and-killed-at-their-discretion>
> > You now have to ceded control to Linksys' cloud service.
> 
> I don't have an issue with buying Linksys hardware. I would have a
> problem with running Linksys software. In other words, I wouldn't get
> Linksys hardware that I can't reflash to something like Tomato Linux
> :-) .
> 
> > (The CellPipe modem's for Bell's VDSL2 suffer from a similar problem.  You
> > have no control over firmware updates.  The current version is buggy and
> > there is no relief.)
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