Last week, my old wireless router died on me. So last week, I searched for a solution. I wanted a cheap, but comprehensive solution. Something I could use to play with a bit, without spending too much money. I started reading some reviews, and found that the Linksys WRT54GL<\/a> is a favourite among open source firmware enthousiasts. I found that it looked ugly and was more expensive than the WRT54G2<\/a>. I found that the WRT54G2 too is supported by DD-WRT<\/a>, a fully featured open source firmware. So I ordered it from routershop.nl<\/a>, and two days later, yesterday, it arrived by mail.<\/p>\n
Actually the power supply stopped working. It was a topcom<\/a> router<\/a>, I bought at aldi<\/a>, for just under 80\u00e2\u201a\u00ac a little more than three years ago. So the warranty had only just expired for a couple of months. It had been acting strang lately, losing dns-caches and disconnecting wired clients, for no obvious reason. I was still very happy with it. It was cheap, fast (108Mbps wireless), secure and reliable. It came with a wifi-usb key too, which I rarely used.
If someone has a spare 5.0V \u00c2\u00a0DC 2.0A power supply, just let me know \ud83d\ude42 I used to experiment a lot with that little router. Once I made a parabolic signal director<\/a> for it, boosting its range to up to 300m.<\/p>\n