[mdlug] Router is giving up on routing let alone working

[Michael Mikowski]

If anyone is thinking of buying a Linksys and want advanced routing capabilities, really do consider buying the WRT54GL v1.1.  It has the ram necessary for the standard dd-wrt build.  Other models do not, yet the costs are comparable.

After 6 years, my Linksys WRT54G v2 router having the exact same
failure mode - wireless dropping.  Wired connections remained fine. 
Modifications included a dd-wrt, high-gain antennas, and moderately
boosted the radio power.

I replaced it with WRT54GL v1.2 from New Egg recently for $60
delivered, and promptly loaded dd-wrt.  Its working flawlessly.  (If
anyone wants notes to speed an install, let me know)


----- Original Message ----
From: Jim Broughton <jbroughton at twmi.rr.com>
To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
Sent: Sun, November 8, 2009 5:20:31 AM
Subject: Re: [mdlug] Router is giving up on routing let alone working

I have had an older Linksys B router get flaky on me I replaced it with
a  Linksys WRT54G. So far it has been operational for
about 4 years. I almost bricked the 54G with a semi failed attempt to put
one of the after market Linux systems in it. I put the original system
Linksys system back in and have left it alone since.
With the B model the wireless portion is what got flaky but
the wired switch portion stayed working quite well.

Jim




Robert Adkins wrote:
> A number of people that I have spoken to about this have experienced the
> same kind of failure mode creeping up.
>
> I ended up buying a D-Link, it came with a GPL notice.
>
> It certainly has a significantly larger set of options available out of the
> box than my Linksys had.
>
> -Rob
>
>
>  
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
>> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Dan Pritts
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 3:04 PM
>> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
>> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Router is giving up on routing let alone working
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 02:11:32PM -0500, Robert Adkins wrote:
>>    
>>> It just makes little sense, to me, that they would fail 
>>>      
>> after only a 
>>    
>>> handful of years.
>>>      
>> We only have a few anecdotes (yours and another person's seem 
>> to have failed; my two haven't, at least not yet).  That 
>> doesn't really tell us anything about the reliability of these things.
>>
>> but given that they are built to a price rather than to a 
>> high quality standard...
>>
>> danno
>> --
>> dan pritts
>> danno at umich.edu
>> 734-929-9770
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