<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 6 Jan 2007, at 12:15, <A href="mailto:liverpool-request@mailman.lug.org.uk">liverpool-request@mailman.lug.org.uk</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Re: Linux, WRT54G and new year (John Bywater)</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Happy new year dear fellow Linux users... having moved to a new</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">appartment where telewest broadband is available I've just susbscribed</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">to its service and I am looking forward to acquiring a Linux friendly</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">wireless router.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">I have read about the Linksys WRT54G for which Linux firmware is</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">available to enhance its capabilities (and of course for the sake of</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">loading Linux into it). I was just wondering if anyone here has any</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">experience which such router and any of the available firwmares</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">(dd-wrt, OpenWRT, Sveasoft, etc...).</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">I will be glad to read any information. I will be ebaying my router</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">soon and Linuxing it. Hope it goes fine.</FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hi,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I am myself using the WRT54GS at the moment and was considering trading it in for the new Linksys router which goes to 802.11n standard. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I must be fairly happy with the brand, as I have used linksys since the WEP11 and WET 11 came out, and still have the WET 11 which was compatible with playstation mk1 for wireless networking, and that I used to network an old iBook that didnt have a wireless card.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>What I will say about the WRT54GS is while I found it easy to set up and have had no problems getting it running with blueyonder, unlike another I briefly tried before getting the 54GS (think it was NetGear), I don't think it has as good a range as some others, which was why actually I tried changing. Other than that I am really satisfied.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Had no idea it could be Linux'ed tho' :-o ... tell me more...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I may have a tinker, or be open to offers for it if I change up...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Regards</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Iain Mac.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>