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

[William Fragakis]

for anyone who wants to join the fun, newegg has a sale on the 54gl

use promo code EMCYVZP34 for another $5 off.

not that I get a commission.

wf

On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 13:04 -0400, Brian MacLeod wrote:
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> On 7/12/10 9:58 PM, Ed Cashin wrote:
> > 
> > Hey hey!  It is via cat 6 to DD-WRT LAN port to wireless to Airport
> > Extreme to cable modem to comcast to y'all that I report success in
> > using Brian's steps.  :)
> 
> 
> Excellent.  I was reciting that from memory, and worried I had missed
> something.
> 
> 
> > And DD-WRT is very nice.  I hope this keeps working.  Brian, if you
> > haven't already, please consider putting these steps on the web.  The
> > info on the DD-WRT site is overwhelming.
> 
> 
> Now that my site [1] is back under my ownership and not a place for
> militant Islamic support (yeah, that was fun, btw), I'll do that. The
> community site is loaded with different and contradictory steps, and the
> forums are (or were) active, which of course means the good stuff gets
> buried deep.
> 
> It will be important for me to do that since I'm about to engage in
> another topic with DD-WRT: multiple ISPs and how to "easily" set up the
> routing.
> 
> 
> > By the way, I used the 30-30-30 hard reset only after flashing the
> > DD-WRT firmware using the Tomato GUI.  Was that as rash as the
> > "peacock thread" makes it sound?  Also, I used the 12548 firmware
> > build instead of 13064, because the peacock thread told me to.
> 
> 
> I haven't a clue honestly.  I have seen, on occasion, the 30-30-30 reset
> do something more than a regular reset, but those occasions seem to be,
> in my experience, rare.  Not only that, Asus routers aren't exactly fond
> of this procedure (ask my two bricks how they are doing).
> 
> I know not of the peacock thread.  As you may have guessed with my
> response above, I find their good bits buried, and most of the time I
> don't bother looking because I know I'll get sucked into (somewhat
> related) debates about something.
> 
> I'll just assume some one was strutting around like they knew all about
> the DD-WRT software and the hardware it runs on.
> 
> 
> Brian
> 
> [1] Wow, you actually came down here to find the site?  It is very low
> on content at the moment (refocus thanks to the hacking).
> http://litterboxofageek.com
> 
> Don't get any of the brown stuff on ya.
> 
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