There are a few of the WRT54's that are available. It seems from reading on different places on the internet that the version that linksys sales now isnt a version that you can hack. They do sell a WRT54GL though that is able to. This one costs more but seems to be more robust. Theres also the WRT54GS which has speedboosts capability. I dont think this applies to me because my laptop uses broadcom. So which router should I buy?
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My intergrated Broadcom wifi card supports speedboost.
As far as what router to recomend. I have had D-Link and Linksys and so far am very happy with my WRT54GX4. It supports WPA2-PSK w/AES maing it very secure. It also has MIMO that I don't use. But maybe some day I'll mess aroud with it and get a card that supports it if I feel the need to.
So I recomed the WRT54GX4 based on security and that I havent lost a connection within the past week that I have had it. Whick is more than I can say as far as other wifi routers that I have owned. -
That router is kind of out my price range.
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Hack?
You just need a WRT54G, but i don't get where your getting at a hack. I just did a review on this router so you can check that out. Otherwise, the GL router is fine. -
i have a wrt54gs and its great. Never been disconnected or anything.
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By 'hack' I assume you mean third party firmware. The Linksys WRT54G(s) versions 1 to 4 support third party firmware. The (s) series from what I understand has more internal memory (as well as speedbooster - unless your card supports it not a big deal) So if possible the best bet is for a WRT54GS Ver 4. (you have to look at the actual router to determine version nr - it is not usually on the box unfortunatley)
I own a WRT54GS Ver 1. I use DD-WRT ver 23 released X-mass day and so far it has been great.
My Acer was suspect to frequent disconnets , but I think it is the card (2915abg) and drivers - as my other wirless computers that use Linksys cards seem much more stable.
That said the last few days the Acer seems stable. I manually removed all w29* files from $WINDIR\system32 (a sys file and 2 dll's ) and installed the latest driver (9.0.3.9) only (ie: not the Intel ProSet software)
I believe version 5 of these routers no longer support 3rd party firmware (ie: not open source) and has less memory. -
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I went to best buy and went through their wrt54g's and I found a v4! SO i picked that up.
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Cool, let us know how it goes.
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Well I hooked it up to a wired pc and it worked. I wont know about wireless performance until the laptop gets here. It seems the firmware can be flashed to make it Speedbooster compatible which is what broadcom uses. Has anyone done this with a version 4 of this router?
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Whats the Model number of this card. Im trying to look it up and i can't even find it.
Whick linksys wireless router?
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Mr. Hollywood, Jan 1, 2006.