[olug] WRT (was: Tonight's meeting)

[Travis Owens]

This struck a chord with me, since my new Linksys WRT54G (V8) is
having significant wireless speed issues. I understand there is
potential loss of speed compared to wired connections, but we're
sitting within 20 feet of the router, and our wired speeds are +10M/s
easily... wireless is 3M/s at best...

The preliminary research I've done so far, points to an upgrade to
dd/open-wrt as helping, but saying it's never going to be the same...

I'm not asking for the same, but good grief... paying for a 12M/s pipe
and only getting 1/4 of it... I think not...

Anyway, I figured to toss this out there and see if anyone has had
similar experiences, or any suggestions to fix it.

Thanks!
Travis


On 9/4/07, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
> i am working on a presentation for alternative firmware for SOHO firewalls
> with a focus on dd-wrt.
>
> Afterall,  today is dd-wrt's creator BrainSlayer's BirthDay!
>
> i will be bringing Buffalo and Linksys wireless routers installed with
> DD-WRT and some unflashed fon.com routers.   If time, i will flash one back
> to Linksys firmware and then run through the staging to install dd-wrt.  If
> anyone has a wireless router they want to run a very small risk of flashing
> with dd-wrt, then please bring it.  If your router is "bricked", then you
> may have an expensive paperweight, but that has not happened to me.  A list
> of supported hardware can be found here:
>
> http://dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices
>
> If you have LinkSys wrt-54g with a serial # that starts with CDFA, then you
> have a good router for this project.  Since the newer routers have less RAM,
> dd-wrt has a micro-edition for these.  BrainSlayer recommends Buffalo
> branded routers - the last i heard anyway.
>
> An example of why alternative firmwares can be so much better and even more
> secure than the factory firmware.
>
> There probably will not be enough time to flash the fon.com routers (that
> can take 10 minutes just for the reflash), but i will bringing 1 or 2 in
> case there is interest.
>
>
> On 9/4/07, Jon Larsen <relayer at levania.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > InstallFest Followup
> > OLUG Discussion
> > Q&A
> > Unconfirmed: WRT firmware discussion
> >
> > Jon L.
> >
> > On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Travis Owens wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:44:36 -0500
> > > From: Travis Owens <openbook1441 at gmail.com>
> > > Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> > > To: Omaha LUG <olug at olug.org>
> > > Subject: [olug] Tonight's meeting
> > >
> > > What's going on for tonight's LUG meeting? I don't remember seeing
> > anything yet.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> >
> > --
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-- 
Travis Owens