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Lobster Cowboy
12-05-2005, 02:25 PM
My Linksys 802.11b router finally croaked last night (I had been expecting it), and I want to buy a new one after work today.
Anyone have a brand/model they recommend other than Linksys? It wasn't a horrible router, but it should've been able to work longer than 2 years.
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CEpeep
12-05-2005, 02:51 PM
> Anyone have a brand/model they recommend other than Linksys?
> It wasn't a horrible router, but it should've been able to
> work longer than 2 years.
>
I know it's still Lisnksys, but get a WRT54G. You can use the OpenWRT firmware ot do all sorts of cool stuff with them. It's on sale somewhere this week for $45, I think.
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SwampGas
12-05-2005, 04:53 PM
Was it the BEFSWR V4 or something? Mine died after about a year and a half...random lockups, and it would just randomly stop sending data...but still blink.
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Freaker
12-05-2005, 06:23 PM
> I know it's still Lisnksys, but get a WRT54G. You can use
> the OpenWRT firmware ot do all sorts of cool stuff with
> them. It's on sale somewhere this week for $45, I think.
Except if it is the WRT54G v5. The v5 doesn't run on linux like the older models do.
As far as I can tell, the WRT54GL is the same as the WRT54G but runs linux.
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Lobster Cowboy
12-05-2005, 11:58 PM
> Was it the BEFSWR V4 or something? Mine died after about a
> year and a half...random lockups, and it would just randomly
> stop sending data...but still blink.
YEAH! That was the one. Same exact problems, too!
I got Linksys again, but this time the swanky 802.11g model. I figured wireless technology has improved over the last few years, and now that Linksys is owned by Cisco, the equipment is probably more stable.
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SwampGas
12-06-2005, 12:09 AM
Same thing for me. It has a stupid orange button on the front that does something with the wireless...dunno.
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WhoaMan
12-06-2005, 06:35 AM
i would suggest a nice prism2 wireless card in a computer with 2 LAN cards and small gentoo install... makes one hell of a wireless router. not only that... but it can also host all your ROMs for use on the xbox.. heh... but you already have another one so uhm... never mind
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