Re: : Fwd: The open source ready Linksys WRT1900AC wireless router is here! FREE Shipping for a limited time only.

For an open source router, I find this one interesting:

http://www.buffalotech.com/products/wireless/open-source-dd-wrt/airstation-highpower-n450-gigabit-dd-wrt-wireless-router

It is apparently running DD-WRT out of the box.  I don't know how easy
it is to upgrade, but I am quite tempted by it just because I like to
incentivize companies to make computer products that I actually own,
rather than appliances or hardware that I am effectively licensing
rather than purchasing.

On 14 April 2014 09:29, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 07:05:28AM -0400, Scott Allen wrote:
>> The WRT54GL was designed for Linux support. That's what the "L" in the
>> name stands for.
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_WRT54G_series#WRT54GL>
>
> Well it isn't linux support, but rather that it runs linux.  The vxworks
> models had much worse performance than the original linux versions (As
> far as I recall the v5 of the WRT54G was when they moved it to vxworks).
>
> vxworks was so not a router OS, and I don't think Linksys had considered
> that before deciding to change the OS to save flash and ram because
> vxworks was smaller and didn't have the GPL thing to deal with.
>
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