Wireless broadband router recommendations?

[CookMySock]

The old school Lynksys 54GL´s can be made to do some pretty cool stuff with 3rd party firmware.

Such a pity it had a shit receiver. -65dbm compared -89dbm for modern Atheros is light-years apart. Each 6db doubles your range, and add to that 300mW compared to 30mW is nearly four times the range again. Then there was the farce of "increasing your output powaaarrr" by tickling the firmware, that made it put out lots more power on almost every adjacent channel, but not the current one - sounds like the CB days where every good CBer had a tune-up screwdriver in their pocket or car glovebox, and if you got an extra 0.5watt out of your transmitter the size of your cock doubled.

In all fairness, the WRT was probably the most hackable wireless hardware ever and was THE cool toy to have at the time.


Steve

[Coldrider]

Yes apparantly there is openware called 'DD-WRT' and 'Tomato' that you can flash to Linksys 54G, WRT160N, some Buffalo and Belkin models that get them singing, but propbably fry them in the long term.
Ironically the linksys 54G with Tomato firmware is pretty popular in the US even now. People buy the fancy stuff and get pissed off with it and just want something robust and simple for $30US.
It is in Wiki how to upgrade firmware.

[Coldrider]

Hardly Normal have Belkin N150 going for $74 so purchased one, at that price I'll load it till it smokes. Easy to set up and encode security, no loss of absorbidant third world country 13Mbs so all is good.
Noels had the N300 for $159 which has a USB port that media can be attched to and used as a server almost, plus alleged 300Mbs internal, but will upgrade when required.