[Leaplist] advice on wifi router please

[Hank Lambert]

Very true. I am flashing mine more to play with it rather than get better performance. I am currently looking at Tomato firmware www.polarcloud.com.
It looks like it provides the standard wifi functions but adds the ability to tweak ACLs, audit and regulate bandwidth on a per-user basis, and viewing neighboring Wi-Fi signals. Now I do not need any of these features, but it seems like a pretty interesting thing to check out. It only works on Version 1 thru 4. FreeWRT spans to version 8, and will support WRT-54L.

-----Original Message-----
From: leaplist-bounces at leap-cf.org [mailto:leaplist-bounces at leap-cf.org] On Behalf Of Carter Manucy
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 10:49 PM
To: This is the Leap Main List
Subject: Re: [Leaplist] advice on wifi router please


> The advertisements on some websites, such as Newegg, note that their
> Linksys WRT-54G is REVISION 5, NOT able to be wiped and modded to the
> install of a replacement Linux firmware.  This one is $54.95. 
> Similar one is $49.95 at 3Btech.net.
> 
> If we look up the WRT54GL, we find prices like $89.95 or higher.
> This model can be modified to add Linux firmware that can be tweaked
> and adjusted.

Uhhh.... 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124190 

$63, $10 mail in rebate ($53), plus free shipping.

Flashing the firmware doesn't do a whole lot for the average user of a WiFi device, anyway.  Sure, you can play with the power on the device, but much beyond that and it's not a whole lot more useful to most people.

-Carter
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