[Liverpool] Re: Linux, WRT54G and new year (John Bywater)

[Iain MacGranthin]

On 6 Jan 2007, at 12:15, liverpool-request at mailman.lug.org.uk wrote:

>  Re: Linux, WRT54G and new year (John Bywater)
Happy new year dear fellow Linux users... having moved to a new
appartment where telewest broadband is available I've just susbscribed
to its service and I am looking forward to acquiring a Linux friendly
wireless router.

I have read about the Linksys WRT54G for which Linux firmware is
available to enhance its capabilities (and of course for the sake of
loading Linux into it). I was just wondering if anyone here has any
experience which such router and any of the available firwmares
(dd-wrt, OpenWRT, Sveasoft, etc...).

I will be glad to read any information. I will be ebaying my router
soon and Linuxing it. Hope it goes fine.


Hi,

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.

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.

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.

Had no idea it could be Linux'ed tho'   :-o ...   tell me more...

I may have a tinker, or be open to offers for it if I change up...


Regards

Iain Mac.


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