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The WRT54GL: A 54Mbps router from 2005 still makes millions for Linksys (2016)
- pinewurst 4y ago(2016)
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- halfdan 4y agoAmazing to see it still getting sold now in 2023. I own two of these and while they now sit in my garage I've probably used them for 15 years. I bought them exactly for the reason laid out in the article - this router has solid hardware and the fact you could out just openwrt/ddwrt on it was amazing.
- yuppie_scum 4y agoWell, this article is 7 years old now
- suprjami 4y agoHad an army of these things doing bridge wifi all over my house for many years, well past their use buy date. I still have them in a box, too slow to be of much use now. I still have the reputation with tech friends as "The WRT guy". These days I buy GL.iNet routers and run OpenWrt.
- iforgotpassword 4y agoThat screenshot from the web interface gives me flashbacks. Wow.
- mgliwka 4y agoGood old OpenWRT with it’s banners on shell login: https://gist.github.com/JiapengLi/b15313f2c5e97c1fc58b https://gist.github.com/JiapengLi/b15313f2c5e97c1fc58b Fondly remember White Russian on the WRT54GL
- datadeft 4y agoQuality went a bit down since White Russian.
- sourcecodeplz 4y agoThose things just wouldn't die! My friends used to make fun of me: "still that old little router, why don't you upgrade?". I still have it in a drawer somewhere.
- squarefoot 4y agoIncidentally, does anyone remember the NSLU2, also from Linksys, roughly from the same era? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2 It was a very hacking friendly device. Here's the archived page (the original one is long gone) about hacking it before OpenWRT became a thing. https://web.archive.org/web/20160313233931/http://www.nslu2-linux.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20160313233931/http://www.nslu2-...
- MuffinFlavored 4y ago> It uses the 802.11g Wi-Fi standard, which has been surpassed by 802.11n and 802.11ac. It was popular with OpenWRT. What's the 802.11ac 5ghz equivalent now?
- wtallis 4y agoNothing has ever come as close to being such a universal default choice, but the TP-Link Archer C7 has been a pretty reliable choice for many years: the hardware's reasonably priced for its capabilities and all revisions are based on similar Qualcomm-Atheros chipsets so you don't have to worry about getting screwed with a bait and switch to some Broadcom crap that doesn't play nice with open source. It's still not bad as a secondary AP.
- SargeDebian 4y agoI don't think there is as much of a standard, with more manufacturers on the market and faster development in new speeds. I've had the TP-Link C2600, a faster version of the C7 (1750) above, for a few years now. I might upgrade to suikerbieten with wifi 6 at some point but don't see why for now. TP-Link seems to be a consistently good choice as they have a number of models with a more CPU power and memory than the minimum necessary.
- noja 4y agoGL-iNet are pretty good. They are basically OpenWRT with a nicer UI, with fallback to the CLI and LuCi when you want it. This is a good basic model for trying it out: https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt300n-v2/ https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt300n-v2/