It may be overkill and might not solve your problem. Many consumer routers are based on a Broadcom WiFi chipset, and most have a micro version of Linux embedded in them that lets you use any browser to configure them.
The Linksys WRT54G series routers became famous because they had a fair amount of processing and memory, and smart folks figured out how to change the firmware and do a lot of very cool things. Naturally this didn't make Cisco/Linksys very happy, but they couldn't do anything about it. What they did do is make the mainline WRT54G routers be cheaper to manufacture by leaving out some memory, and that broke a lot of the firmware hacks. DD-wrt is just one of many firmware packages, open source, that can be flashed into routers with the Broadcom chipset. After a while, Cisco/Linksys found that happy firmware hackers were actually a good business for them, we didn't require *any* support, and recommended their routers to our friends. So they decided to add a special model, the WRT54GL (note the L) which is exactly the same box as their mainline WRT54G, but it has more memory, so it is friendlier to folks wanting to use alternative firmware such as DD-WRT. Among the things DD-WRT can do is raise the radio power to the max that the FCC allows. Maybe higher, but I wouldn't know about that. But this is all about WiFi, and you've said you have problems with it all hardwired. So I'm not sure I see how different firmware will help your specific problems. -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pfarrell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=200 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40503 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
