Looking for a new router

[magibeg]

My buddy needs a new router and i thought i would come to you guys for assistance as i'm a little out of date when it comes to router technology. We don't need wireless N just a simple wireless G. Have about a $100 budget or so. Live in Canada so no newegg. Was thinking about a Linksys WRT54G and doing a firmware mod.

 

[mrhuggles]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G

this shows what revisions have what ammount of memory and flash space, i suggest the WRT54GS v1.0 to 3.0, but uhh, with prices the way they are maybe u should just up the budget a little and get an avila gateworks router, it wouldnt be that much more and youd get twice the router, a router, if 100% stable and 100% fast, is something that can last you your whole life, especialy with an avila gateworks router, since when you need to upgrade your wifi setup, you would just get a new miniPCI wifi card, also since you dont have an internal switch, when you need to upgrade your internal lan, you just get a new switch... i guess if you ever needed more than 100mbit internet [or 1gbit internet depending on what model you go with] you might wanna upgrade it someday... i think i could prolly live with 100mbit internet my whole life.... heh im gonna regret saying that i know it :?

my router is a WRT54G v2.0 [one of the ones with 32bit ram]

i would say, dont get anything with less than 32mb ram, and if you can help it get something with 8mb flash space, mine only has 4 so i cant run alot of extra stuff without modding it, i think i would give alot to be able to run an eggdrop or something on it :?

oh and also, last time i checked, a WRT54G with 4mb flash and 16mb ram costed around 70 dollars, those are the same as a WRT54GL
a WRT54GS with 32mb ram, and 8mb flash space, that was worth about 130-150

that was used ebay values about... half a year ago or so? since they are worth so much the early revisions of the WRT54GS sometimes would get sold on ebay as that, but then when you got them they would be a newer revision with less memory and flash space, it was a real headach

 

[magibeg]

Yea i noticed that as well, so i was looking at the WRT54GL series which seems to be modable at all revisions using Tomato.

 

[mrhuggles]

i havnt tried tomato, i stick to openWRT religiously, and to make up for its sorta not so great GUI i like to use X-WRT [gui replacement yay]

i use white russian still, the X-WRT for kamikaze was still sorta betaish last time i checked

its nice to have more memory and more flash space for more features that way, why dont you get a look at all the packages avalable for openWRT

packages in openWRT work alot like they do in any linux dist, and in openWRT [unlike dd-wrt] they work properly, you can even do upgrades that way, without looseing your uptime

i havnt tried tomato becuase ive read that its based on the official firmware, i dont know how stable it is,... i guess, i would like to hear from anyone that has used it for a long time, can it get like 1yr uptime?,.. hows it perform? if its 100% stable that would make it pretty neat, it does have some nice features and a nice fun interface while being alot smaller than openWRT, also can it run any IRC bots? that would be really nice

 

[thoughtdisorder]

Yea i noticed that as well, so i was looking at the WRT54GL series which seems to be modable at all revisions using Tomato.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I have the WRT54GL and have not had any problems with it.

 

[magibeg]

Excellent, so it looks like i can't really go wrong with any of them so long as i'm careful which revision there is. I suppose ideally i'm going to make sure i get 8 mb of flash memory for a good firmware flash. Any other routers of course or suggestions are welcome.

 

[mrhuggles]

8mb flash, 32mb ram, and your good to go, pretty much everything from the WRT54G to everything zero day has the same cpu power, so the newer stuff isnt going to perform better, the older the easier it will be to get something on there

did i mention avila gateworks? you should give a look over their things, and look at the WRT54GS v1.0 to 3.0, i um, well, its like compareing a laptop with a big gaming rig you built yourself [no seriously thats a pretty good analogy]

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

Wrt54gl

 

[mrhuggles]

wrt54GL has only 4mb flash space and 16mb ram

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

i have dd-wrt on it and its sweet!

 

[mrhuggles]

yeah but its got half the memory and flash space you could have otherwise had, and since your running dd-wrt ipkg is broken is that ok?

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

half versus which model? teh GS?

 

[mrhuggles]

the GS 1.0 to 3.0

 

[Azazel]

My buddy needs a new router and i thought i would come to you guys for assistance as i'm a little out of date when it comes to router technology. We don't need wireless N just a simple wireless G. Have about a $100 budget or so. Live in Canada so no newegg. Was thinking about a Linksys WRT54G and doing a firmware mod.

i have the wired version and its great

 

[mrhuggles]

wired version, BEF*?erm.. there is a wired version of the N routers?