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Last week, my old wireless router died on me. \"topcomActually 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.\"topcom 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

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

\"This
This device looks nice, an important point for me, because It lives next to my TV, in the living room.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I played with it a bit, but found that out of the box, the possibilities for configuration are rather limited. So I flahed it with the new firmware. This page<\/a> details the process, which is actually rather painless. There were only two (known) problems I encountered. The first is that the tftp program for sending the new firmware to the device didn’t work under windows Vista. This was not a problem for me, I just booted into XP and everything worked as described. The second problem was that after setting a new password, I couldn’t save any of the settings I wanted to change. I did the 30\/30\/30 reset, which means pressing the reset button for 90 seconds, while killing and restoring the power to the device after half a minute. After that I was able to configure the device to my liking.<\/p>\n

I was very impressed with the possibilities the DD-WRT firmware opens for such a cheap device.<\/p>\n

\"DD-WRT
DD-WRT control panel. Very user friendly, every setting at your fingertips.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a next post, I will describe the network topology I realized with it. I used to need an extra network-switch to give an external IP to my telenet digibox\/digicorder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, my old wireless router died on me. Actually the power supply stopped working. It was a topcom router, I bought at aldi, 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. 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