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Title: USA Linksys WRT54G
Post by: Rivkid on May 11, 2008, 13:16:38 PM
Just bought one of these for £11 on ebay. Anyone foresee any potential issues with it being a USA one? Had to take a risk as there was only 1m 30s left on the auction! No UK PSU but Ive got one of those anyway.

Title: Re:USA Linksys WRT54G
Post by: Beaker on May 11, 2008, 16:39:34 PM
no, should work fine provided the power input is ok.
Title: Re:USA Linksys WRT54G
Post by: blaine on May 11, 2008, 17:09:06 PM
These are amazing routers, they can be modded with linux and can run the spec of a £300 router. They have variable settings to increase signal strength etc with modded firmware, you have picked up one of the best routers made.
Title: Re:USA Linksys WRT54G
Post by: Rivkid on May 11, 2008, 17:38:15 PM
Fantastic cheers guys, Need to figure out how to mod it to pppoa now otherwise Ill have to keep the BT Homehub as a modem... stupid piece of crap.... mutter grumble....
Title: Re:USA Linksys WRT54G
Post by: Beaker on May 11, 2008, 18:32:32 PM
Quote from: RivkidFantastic cheers guys, Need to figure out how to mod it to pppoa now otherwise Ill have to keep the BT Homehub as a modem... stupid piece of crap.... mutter grumble....

erm, they dont have an ADSL modem in them.  Keep the homehub, but just change it to bridge mode.  They are just a modified Speedtouch 780 If I Remember Correctly.  I had my BeBox running as a modem in the end, but all the routing turned off.  Rock solid as a modem, utter sh*te as a router.
Title: Re:USA Linksys WRT54G
Post by: Mark on May 12, 2008, 20:14:05 PM
Quote from: blaineThese are amazing routers, they can be modded with linux and can run the spec of a £300 router. They have variable settings to increase signal strength etc with modded firmware, you have picked up one of the best routers made.

I would argue that fact - I modded one and ithe only routing protocols available were OSPF, BGP and RIP2. It was extremely light on features in comparison to say - a low end cisco 800 series.



Title: Re:USA Linksys WRT54G
Post by: XEntity on May 12, 2008, 20:47:53 PM
I liked my WRT54GS was quite a good router, the modded software worked well on the later versions, and rarely had problems.....

....Until it decided to brick itself! One day just decided to die mid use, I know several people have had this problem, but more have probably not had any problems.

Good router if you can get it for a little amount of money, but I have now upgraded to a more sturdy router and separate AP.

J
Title: Re:USA Linksys WRT54G
Post by: DeltaZero on May 13, 2008, 00:55:58 AM
Quote from: Mark
Quote from: blaineThese are amazing routers, they can be modded with linux and can run the spec of a £300 router. They have variable settings to increase signal strength etc with modded firmware, you have picked up one of the best routers made.

I would argue that fact - I modded one and ithe only routing protocols available were OSPF, BGP and RIP2. It was extremely light on features in comparison to say - a low end cisco 800 series.




On a seperate note - but just as I know thisll be Marks sort of thing....what do you think about pfSense?
Title: Re:USA Linksys WRT54G
Post by: Rivkid on May 13, 2008, 11:49:06 AM
Woo arrived this morning boxed, mint! As described it had a USA PSU (that was why it was cheap) but working for a huge Cisco Gold Partner I was able to get a freebie from the spares in the warehouse. Had to do a factory reset to get rid of the old users passwords to get in but now all up and running and confusing our sales guys!

Best £11.00 ever!

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