Re: [BLUG] Anybody selling or willing to rent out a wireless router?

I've got a WRT54G that I've been running for about 5 years and it is rock solid.

If you really wanna turn that thing into a beast though go to:

http://dd-wrt.com/site/index

and find a firmware release that will run on your version of that router. It's amazing all the features you have access to running this software on a WRT54G. Cisco would charge you $600 for the same feature set!

DD-WRT is written in some flavor of Linux. The website has a great forum too.

I used to have a second WRT54G running DD-WRT firmware and had it setup as a bridge in a detached garage. It greatly improved the signal inside the garage and I was able to roam back and forth betweeen the buildings and all over my property without ever dropping.

I burnt it up though using the software but that was because I cranked up the TX Power to about 250 milliwatts during a test and absolutely fried it! I think Linksys ships them at 28 mW. 100 mW is plenty...

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From: "Jared Schlemmer" <schlemmj@bloomington.in.gov>
To: "Bloomington LINUX Users Group" <blug@cs.indiana.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 5:27:04 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [BLUG] Anybody selling or willing to rent out a wireless router?

I have a Linksys WRT54G I just replaced but still have. It's about 6 years old and I question it's reliability somewhat... but, I'd be more than happy to loan it out for a month. I work downtown and I can bring it to work with me during the day.

~Jared

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Joe Auty < joe@netmusician.org > wrote:

We're in the process of moving to a new house here in town, and we'd like to have internet access to both places while we complete this move, which will take at least a month. Therefore, I'm a little reluctant to pay full price for a new router since we'll only need it for the month.

Does anybody have one they were going to garage sale or something? Something I can rent? :) Wireless G or N is cool...

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