[Ham-80211] WRT54GL AP?

[Drew Baxter]

I've had pretty good results with the Buffalo units from Best Buy, 
namely the G54S.  They're cheaper than the Linksys too and readily 
available.  The new incarnations of the G and GS from Linksys use 
VXworks and have very limited memory.  They're not particularly 
helpful for running Linux.  The GL will run Linux, but costs more or 
is harder to locate (usually retail stores don't have them).  I have 
to say the Buffalo units seem to be better made, but also their 
factory software seems to be well done.

Best of all they're supported by DD-WRT, which is a good Linux 
implementation.  Be forewarned that at this time it's impossible to 
reflash the unit back to the Buffalo firmware if you flash it to 
DD-WRT.  However, no real need to.  At a price of about 50-60 bucks, 
it was cheaper than a WRT54GS but had the same memory and 
whatnot.  Best Buy carries them as regular inventory, one of the few 
places that seems to carry Buffalo locally.

--Droo, K1XVM

At 10:55 AM 5/20/2006, Jack Taylor wrote:
>Appears one of our WAP11's has rolled over and died.  We've set these up for
>wireless bridge mode.  Lately I've become aware of a lot of buzz over the
>WRT54GL routers and 3rd party Linux software.  Does anyone know if
>one of these would be a suitable replacement for a WAP11?
>
>73 de Jack  -  N7OO