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Just search for WRT54GL on Amazon. It's selling for $34.99, which is pretty affordable. N.B. the WRT54G doesn't work with Tomato.

aesclepius 8y ago
A cheaper, and better (longer 5ghz and 2.5 ghz) option is the Archer C7 router as well.
polshaw 8y ago
The problem with that being a lot of people's internet is now faster than 54mbit
- supertrope 8y ago
  802.11g actual max throughput is 22Mbps, assuming you don’t live in an apartment.
  - jey 8y ago
    It's usually 802.11ac EDIT: oops, thanks
    - IvyMike 8y ago
      I think you may have misread something: he's stating that the WRT54GL router which was recommended a few comments above, only supports up to 802.11g.
haldean 8y ago
The WRT54 is dog slow by today's standards. My residential Comcast service is faster than it can handle; my max down almost doubled when I swapped my WRT54GL for an AC3200
- 8bitsrule 8y ago
  A few years ago I used my 54G to DL a 15GB file at (a reported max of) 60Mb/s. Obviously took a while ... without hiccups. I'm guessing most US customers aren't getting service that fast ... so there's still plenty of use for them. (Still use one all day at 25Mb/s.)
namibj 8y ago
At least get a WRT841N, they are like 15$+sales tax, unless you get the wrong vendor. Less if you find refurb's or buy bulk. They are the main workhorse for our local mesh network, with WRT1043 devices handling encrypted uplinks due to the lack of speed with chacha/poly running on the former (think under 10Mbit/s). Don't worry, they do handle advanced mesh routing algorithms at line rate, e.g. 2x2 mimo 802.11n and 100BASE-T (4+1 ports). E.g., they handle mesh domains of about a thousand nodes before one needs to split, and mostly due to L2 traffic starting to hog the slower links (it's an L2 mesh).
- wrycoder 8y ago
  Thanks, I've only got 1.5Mb DSL, but that's a better price point and I appreciate your useful comments on mesh.
  - namibj 8y ago
    At that speed, and if you won't need fancy buffering and got the necessary 3.3-ish volt ready, check out some esp8266-based mesh/repeated tech. Possibly with using wires on their (quad-) SPI bus to pair two, potentially over quite a sizable line length. Saves airtime.

aesclepius 8y ago

A cheaper, and better (longer 5ghz and 2.5 ghz) option is the Archer C7 router as well.

polshaw 8y ago

The problem with that being a lot of people's internet is now faster than 54mbit

supertrope 8y ago
802.11g actual max throughput is 22Mbps, assuming you don’t live in an apartment.
- jey 8y ago
  It's usually 802.11ac EDIT: oops, thanks
  - IvyMike 8y ago
    I think you may have misread something: he's stating that the WRT54GL router which was recommended a few comments above, only supports up to 802.11g.

haldean 8y ago

The WRT54 is dog slow by today's standards. My residential Comcast service is faster than it can handle; my max down almost doubled when I swapped my WRT54GL for an AC3200

8bitsrule 8y ago
A few years ago I used my 54G to DL a 15GB file at (a reported max of) 60Mb/s. Obviously took a while ... without hiccups. I'm guessing most US customers aren't getting service that fast ... so there's still plenty of use for them. (Still use one all day at 25Mb/s.)

namibj 8y ago

At least get a WRT841N, they are like 15$+sales tax, unless you get the wrong vendor. Less if you find refurb's or buy bulk. They are the main workhorse for our local mesh network, with WRT1043 devices handling encrypted uplinks due to the lack of speed with chacha/poly running on the former (think under 10Mbit/s). Don't worry, they do handle advanced mesh routing algorithms at line rate, e.g. 2x2 mimo 802.11n and 100BASE-T (4+1 ports). E.g., they handle mesh domains of about a thousand nodes before one needs to split, and mostly due to L2 traffic starting to hog the slower links (it's an L2 mesh).

wrycoder 8y ago
Thanks, I've only got 1.5Mb DSL, but that's a better price point and I appreciate your useful comments on mesh.
- namibj 8y ago
  At that speed, and if you won't need fancy buffering and got the necessary 3.3-ish volt ready, check out some esp8266-based mesh/repeated tech. Possibly with using wires on their (quad-) SPI bus to pair two, potentially over quite a sizable line length. Saves airtime.