Well;
I bought an open brick the day after Bao C. Ha gave his presentation at SOCALWUG a couple years back, and as of this date I have not ever had it running correctly (he confirmed its defectiveness at the last LALUG meeting). So, I would hardly consider the open brick as the functional equivalent of the WRT54G. Further, the price differential, especially considering you still have to purchase radio cards, means your "longer usage" would have to be five to eight times the lifespan of a WRT54G. Why not just look at the WRT54G as today's "disposable" solution, build out the rest of your infrastructure with upgrades in mind, and just swap them out when the next generation of hardware reaches the same commodity price point?
I know there is a strong anti-LinkSys bias in this WUG, but we here at brats.com have been using them successfully in our WISP for some six months with very few problems.
Sveasoft has delivered on previous "coming features" in a reasonable amount of time, and to my mind, discounting sveasoft based on a groundless assumption about their development cycle is just as illogical as putting all your faith in an open brick without actually ever having used one.
Jo3
Oisin Feeley wrote:
--- Aaron Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040527.html
Comments?
Linksys WRT54G has no console available IIUC? There
are instructions out there to solder on UARTs and
transceivers, but there's a significant chance of
messing the thing up. Any soldering gurus at SOCALWUG
willing to do a noobies workshop?
My main interest is in having at the least VPN passthrough, but ideally a full IPSEC implementation on the router itself. That isn't available yet with the Sveasoft firmware (Satori-pre3.10 lists it under "Coming Features" ie "not here yet" although they do have a PPTP implementation).
There is the possibility of using the "Batbox" distro as the guy developing it says that he's sorted out VPN (release notes as per v.2) but I'm not certain what he means and I haven't tried it yet.
Fry's have these for units for $69.95 (after $10 mail-in-rebate).
I'm thinking that a more easily expandable OpenBrick or Soekris model might offer longer usage?
Oisin
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