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- apotropaic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+69lol... diggs don't reflect the number of people that clicked the link. Although... that would be a GREAT digg feature... If it showed 45 diggs, but also showed 450 people clicked the link and it could auto calculate the 10% digg to click ratio. I think I'm not the only geek who loves useless statistics!
- imnojezus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+56Or tape a stack of twenty-seven $20 bills to it.
- ajwillys, on 10/12/2007, -19/+67A $600 router had better have gigabit speeds and/or more than four ports.
- disrupter, on 10/12/2007, -4/+52and spinners
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+48I turned my routers into a $600 routers by filling them with gas...
- helfire, on 10/12/2007, -6/+45Most (expencive) routers only have 2 ports, one internal network and one external network, and routes between them
- rideagain, on 10/12/2007, -7/+40How to turn a $60 router into a $600 router? Easy! Just add diamonds.
- threepio, on 10/12/2007, -12/+38Ah! Look at this! Combination Hookah and Coffee Maker!
Also makes Julienne Fries!
Will not break! Will not *crack*.
It broke.
Seriously though - for $60, good deal. - armbar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25I have this router, and it's quite good on its own, before the speed boosts. The best advantage, IMO, will be the signal boost--right now it drops out if I move 3 walls away.
I might give this a shot so I can play my DS from the crapper on the other side of the house. - Lazybones, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19because you can't use the linksys web interface to directly flash to the full standard version of DD-WRT the mini passes the linksys size validation check. Once DD-WRT is on there you can flash the other versions.
- RadiatedAnt, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22roger, who the hell uses a 4 port router for a business infrastructure. You wouldn't! you would use a switch with precious vlans.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17The other thing $600 routers have is insane backplane bandwidth. Just 'cause a swtich has 24 gigabit ports, don't mean it can actually switch 24 gigabit/sec. And lord knows the hardware in a WRT54G isn't anywhere near that. The thing has maybe 8 meg of ram, whereas a commercial router has gigabytes.
DDWRT is great. But in the end, you've still only got $40 worth of hardware. - SpacemanSpiff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14I like that idea. It would be nice to see how many people clicked the link, but didn't digg it.
- Beanlover, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16You must have meant PS3.
- fideli, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12"I like that idea. It would be nice to see how many people clicked the link, but didn't digg it."
or the other way around, for that matter. - afex, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12it would probably help in determining front page-ness too...i mean, a 25 digg / 25 click story is probably good, whereas a 40 digg but 500 click story has more diggs but must not be so hot
- RadiatedAnt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12RTFA!
- LilGator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9$600 gigabit 16-port switches you mean :) as was mentioned above, high-end routers are 2-port ... as that's all that is needed ...
- Rosewood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Those aren't v4 or L versions.
- xerox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8WRT54 series routers only.
- Lazybones, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Well not any more.
Linksys has release MANY revisions and almost all NEW WRT54G and WRT54GS units will NO LONGER WORK with thirdparty firmware.
Here is a VERY detailed guid for figuring it out.. Also there is a forum for DD_WRT that lists all of the compatible units.
http://www.linksysinfo.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=6 - Fratm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6DD-WRT, has you upgrade to a lesser version, which is a smaller image, then once that image is installed, you re-flash with the latest version.
Flashing to the latest version directly from the linksys firmware, can brick your router.
-Fratm - HoboMaster, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Right, switches. It's been a long day at work, and it's only 1:30.
- ahmerhussain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Stop spamming your blog links.
- spenceman01, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7How about turning a $33 router into a '$600 router'. Fon.com has the compatible WRT54G series routers for $33 shipped.
- tybris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+41 I'm kind of surprised this is getting so many diggs. I had expected all diggers to have a WRT54G with hacked firmware.
2 $600!? I have 3 of them, all running DD-WRT...$1800 worth of routers? Might be time to call my insurance company...or maybe not. - mc900ftjesus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7"A $600 router had better have gigabit speeds and/or more than four ports."
Wow, yeah, you really don't know what a router does do you? 2-ports is plenty. Your $60 home router has a router port attached to a switch, it doesn't route to the internal switch ports (that's why they're called switch ports). Stop making uninformed comments.
If you want a layer-3 switch (a router with a ton of ports) you'll be in the $10,000 and way up range. - EdLesMann, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I think this thread has a great point. That feature would be extremely helpful in sorting out what stories have diggers interest. While I can see where this feature may sort out a few good stories, I think it will filter more junk then anything else.
How many times have we seen a front page item whose title is something like "This web page is pure awesomeness! Seriously, made of pure win!" and the page is a blog link that stinks like a barn yard? Seeing a low link-to-digg ratio will warn people not to bother.
The downside of it is a well written story with a title of "Famous person reviews something" and some one with a 12yr old fanboi attitude gets annoyed with the review because it gave a good/bad rating, so they find someway to have the link clicked several times just to give a bad ratio in hopes of burying it.
My fear is that good stories may be exposed to being buried easier. While the digg community is pretty good about burying fanboi's, they are among the bigger complaints/gripes from the entire digg community.
Anyway, just my 2cents. So who wants to email Kevin? :-D - Xalorous, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Or perhaps in some hardware versions the step is necessary and you're encouraging people to skip steps with a procedure they no nothing about.
- MikeyMoose, on 01/30/2009, -1/+4No, not new, but many have not heard of the 3rd party firmware before. Some are even paying $20 and using Sveasoft firmware!
http://www.sveasoftsucks.com/
DD-WRT has finaly become rock solid stable and user friendly enough for the average idiot to use and use well... - violentvinyl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Fix it? As in, put up a website and charge people to view it?
- ZamboniDriver, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Most expensive routers do NOT have 2 ports. A few of the older Cisco basic routers (2500 series) had 2 serial ports.
Cisco 2500's have been end-of-life since 1999 or before. And they are cheap routers these days, $125 to $250 on eBay, though they might not be that cheap if you need to buy more flash and better software, as the eBay seller might only include "desktop" software instead of "enterprise", or another version with NAT or firewall services.
These days, most expensive routers are modular. Buy a chassis, buy cards, load software, configure. You might spend $12,000 to $25,000 for a router that will handle OC-3 or DS-3 and 10/100 ethernet. Cisco 7200 chassis is common, and uses modular cards. A 7206 base chassis would start around $4000. Cards could easily get you to $25K or more. - danraydotorg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I've got this on my WRT54G (not L, I'm old-skool) and it's great.
That said, I wonder where this $600 figure keeps coming from? It used to be $500, back when I upgraded... - tres, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@KSava:
OpenWRT (my preferred WRT distro) allows Kaid Engine:
Check this out:
http://www.macsat.com/macsat/content/view/49/30/ - miller9time, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yeah I'm running this firmware with the WRT54G but I would recommend the GL if you can afford the extra money. The GL has more space to install applications on it. I am running the standard DD-WRT and I don't have enough room to install the no-ip module :0(
- violentvinyl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No. OpenWRT (the linux distro on which DD-WRT is based) is only for wireless routers. Gigabit won't help your downloads, it will only help if you're transferring files in between two machines (which must alot have Gigabit NICs).
- Wyzard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Are you talking about your Internet connection, or your LAN? There's no way your home Internet connection is 100mbit, and LAN traffic just goes through the WRT54G's switch and doesn't have to be seen by the CPU at all.
- Ramble, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Whoo, I jsut checked and I have a compatible router (Buffalo one).
Looks like I can fix the webcam craze in this house. - kalisphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8"Wow, yeah, you really don't know what a router does do you? 2-ports is plenty. Your $60 home router has a router port attached to a switch, it doesn't route to the internal switch ports (that's why they're called switch ports). Stop making uninformed comments.
If you want a layer-3 switch (a router with a ton of ports) you'll be in the $10,000 and way up range."
Okay. A $600 router had better give blowjobs. - jarnot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2DD-WRT is a *fantastic* product. The installation is a breeze and the capabilities of the software are well beyond those of any other consumer router.
- Dhalgren, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3They say they've modified the hardware, though. I would be leary of what's been done. They are trying to create an open system, right? I would want the opposite for myself.
I actually just recently did what this article discusses, and I can say that I love the DD-WRT firmware. It works great, has a slew of awesome features and is very reliable. One of the things that hung me up at first, though, that the author does not discuss is to change the IP Filter Settings to have a maximum ports setting of 4096 and change the timeouts to 120 (this was all in the wiki, btw: http://wrt-wiki.bsr-clan.de/index.php?title=Router_Slowdown). My problem was that the router was locking up on me, but changing these settings fixed the problem. Apparently by using bit torrent the router was exceding its maximum connections... - violentvinyl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4http://www.*****.com
But because I'm a nice guy, DD-WRT is based on OpenWRT (a linux distro for routers), the hardware compatability is here: http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware - OctaneZ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This is to ahmerhussain, you have to consider the huge power saving of running a wrt54g[s|L] over running some old x86 box.
- b0rg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I've used a different firmware on a linksys router. It does offer some nice features that are not in the stock model, but it also comes with some trade-offs - i.e. some things don't work as you'd expect, and there's lots of ways to "brick" the router.
I have ended up using a cisco router with built-in switch and hardware vpn card. yes, it's absurdly better than the linksys, but it's also about 50 times the price. If I had to pay for it out of my own pocket, it would be a no-brainer to get the linksys again, though the newer factory firmwares have a lot of the features I needed at the time.
BTW, on the radio "boost" - keep in mind that it may not help so much. Since you're only boosting one side of the connection (assuming you're connecting to a laptop or something) it may actually make a marginal signal worse. Spending a few bucks on a better antenna set usually helps more, since it will help with both the TX and RX sides of the conversation. - Lazybones, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You probably need to increase the Maximum connection setting and decrease the timeout on the connections. The router defaults don't seem to play well with some p2p software.
- mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"To be honest, I don’t know much about the science of the whole process, but I do know that 251 is WAY bigger than 28. "
Fricken awesome. - MikeyMoose, on 01/30/2009, -1/+3The WRT does NOT max out at 7Mbit. That's total crap. I have a GS v1.1 and regularly get 14Mbit (that's my ISP imposed limit) from the WAN side.
- HoboMaster, on 10/12/2007, -8/+10So by upgrading the firmware and turning up the transmit power, it suddenly becomes the equivalent of a $600 router? Man, I better tell my boss. He keeps buying these silly $600 gigabit 16-port routers. I could save us lots of money!
... - picaman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This update bricked my Black and Decker--now I can't finish my woodworking project.
- modsuperstar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Didn't you check the compatibility chart? This only works with Ryobi's and DeWalt's.
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