Re: [SLUG] WRT54G (was Marketing)

From: Pete Theisen (petet@acun.com)
Date: Wed Sep 07 2005 - 22:27:21 EDT


Ian C. Blenke wrote:
<snip>
>>> el-cheapo Linksys WRT54G
>>
>> Is this a good unit? They use this one and a Symantec VPN 200 where
>> I am at the moment, someone else's wireless g. I have to be right
>> in the room to get a signal, down the hall in my own workspace it
>> dies.
>
> It works well for me. The broadcom reference design has a number of
> open implementations, Linksys seems to have the most inexpensive. As
> for firmware support, I recommend "upgrading" to another WRT
> distribution for various reasons.
>
> dd-wrt - http://www.dd-wrt.com/ FreeMan - http://wrt54g.serwer.net/
> openwrt - http://openwrt.org/
>
> The default transmit strength can be "turned up"

Hi Ian!

They'd have a cow if I switched their software to something else, I'll
just live with it. <g>

Regards,

Pete
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