[ale] poll: WRT54G 3rd-party firmware for wireless bridge

[Richard Bronosky]

+1 for Tomato. But why Airport Extreme? I'm using a MacBook Pro to
write this, but wouldn't buy their wireless router.

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> I run Tomato on mine and it is in service as a bridge in our den serving
> our Ethernet only Blue-Ray player.  Works great.
>
>
> On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 18:41 -0400, Ed Cashin wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> My Linksys WRT54G was, I think, acting a bit iffy after a few good
>> years of service---The wireless would become unusable about three
>> times a week.
>>
>> I replaced it with an Apple Airport Extreme, but now the Linksys
>> wireless card in my basement PC running Linux can't get on the
>> wireless.
>>
>> The occasional outages wouldn't bother me if I used the WRT54G
>> as a bridge, accessing the Airport Extreme's wireless and providing
>> its four wired network ports to my basement equipment.
>>
>> In other words,
>>
>>   Comcast cable => modem => Airport Extreme => cloud
>>   cloud => MacBooks, Tivo, etc.
>>   cloud => WRT54G => (cat 6) debian PC, HP network laser printer
>>
>> Googling led me to hyperwrt firmware links that were dead.  I've
>> heard a lot of talk about Tomato, etc., but anybody who has done
>> what I aim to do with a 3rd-party WRT54G firmware, please speak
>> up!
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
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