On 08/03/2012 12:12 PM, AJ ONeal wrote: > Since the last time I bought a WRT54G-TM it's dropped from $60 to an > average closer to $30. > > So who's the new kid on the block? Why is this beast no longer in demand?
The venerable WRT54G series, while good, lacks more modern features such as 802.11n, the 5 GHz band, USB ports, and so on. Also, it's a little weak. Check out this [1] chart showing WAN-to-LAN throughput. The WRT54GL is near the bottom at 53 Mbps. There are many other metrics on that site you can sort by, too. I think a great strength of the WRT54G series was the third-party firmware available. Networking performance-wise, it was good for its time but not compared to the newer hardware nowadays. > The last time I checked the only router that has anything near the specs > that the WRT54G-TM has is the ASUS RT-N16 (which has about 2x the specs for > $90). I've done a bunch of research lately since I wanted to replace my WRT54GL. I settled on the ASUS RT-N16 which in many ways is the successor to the WRT54G. Third-party firmware runs on it nicely (I'm using the Shibby TomatoUSB mod) and it's 802.11n and has two USB 2.0 ports. The only downside is it doesn't use the 5 GHz band. I've got some optware running on it (git and rsync for now) but need to figure out how to package stuff that isn't available (mainly unison). I just got it this week and am enjoying it so far. [1] http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/router-charts/bar/74-wan-to-lan -- Rich /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
