[lug] FREE : Box o' Linksys Routers

[Maxwell Spangler]

A friend of mine who lives in the mountains has a Linksys WRT54G
mounted in a plastic weatherproof box on the side of a power pole to
get wireless service from a neighboring house.
It was about 8 years old when we pulled it down and removed it ONLY to
replace it with an identical model that I had bought at a thrift store
and upgraded to a newer version of DD-WRT.
In summary, don't dis these old routers. They're like 60s volkswagons:
they just keep working.  They're only 10/100 wire speed, and only
54Gbps wireless speed, but the durability and the signal strength on
these guys really amazed me.
Replace the embedded firmware, if you can, with DD-WRT, OpenWRT or
Tomato and you'll have a device that can keep working with a lot of
features for a very long time.
On Thu, 2016-11-10 at 08:16 -0700, Robert Racansky wrote:
> I have a box of assorted Linksys routers, free to anyone who (1)
> wants the entire lot, and (2) can pick it up at tonight's BLUG
> meeting
> 
> WAP54G x 4 each (1 LAN port, Wi-Fi)
> WRT54G x 5 each (4 LAN ports, Wi-Fi)
> BEFSR11 x 2 each (1 LAN port, no Wi-Fi)
> BEFSR41 x 1 each (4 LAN ports, no Wi-Fi)
> 
> The last firmware updates for these were c. 2005, so I wouldn't use
> them in production.  But if you need some equipment for
> troubleshooting purposes, a lab network, or a honey net, then you're
> probably the type of person who can find a use for these.
> 
> 
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Maxwell Spangler
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