[HN Gopher] The WRT54GL: A 54Mbps router from 2005 still makes m...
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The WRT54GL: A 54Mbps router from 2005 still makes millions for
Linksys (2016)
Author : segasaturn
Score : 18 points
Date : 2023-04-28 21:00 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
| suprjami wrote:
| Had an army of these things doing bridge wifi all over my house
| for many years, well past their use buy date. I still have them
| in a box, too slow to be of much use now. I still have the
| reputation with tech friends as "The WRT guy". These days I buy
| GL.iNet routers and run OpenWrt.
| pinewurst wrote:
| (2016)
| iforgotpassword wrote:
| That screenshot from the web interface gives me flashbacks. Wow.
| sourcecodeplz wrote:
| Those things just wouldn't die! My friends used to make fun of
| me: "still that old little router, why don't you upgrade?". I
| still have it in a drawer somewhere.
| mgliwka wrote:
| Good old OpenWRT with it's banners on shell login:
| https://gist.github.com/JiapengLi/b15313f2c5e97c1fc58b
|
| Fondly remember White Russian on the WRT54GL
| datadeft wrote:
| Quality went a bit down since White Russian.
| [deleted]
| halfdan wrote:
| Amazing to see it still getting sold now in 2023.
|
| I own two of these and while they now sit in my garage I've
| probably used them for 15 years. I bought them exactly for the
| reason laid out in the article - this router has solid hardware
| and the fact you could out just openwrt/ddwrt on it was amazing.
| yuppie_scum wrote:
| Well, this article is 7 years old now
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