Uses for a spare box

[riddlermarc]

Yes but only if you improved the cooling like I did with my old WRT54G
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nerd

/plans to get home and *mod* the 45GS a bit

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Yes but only if you improved the cooling like I did with my old WRT54G

No problems there. I already treated one of mine to a fan and heatsinks so that I could push the wireless chipset from it's stock power of 28 mW to a more robust 150 mW. The Broadcom BCM5352 CPU is also overclocked from 200 MHz to 233 MHz

/geek

 

[DeeJay-Mo]

I like the sound of that, just don't think I would have any way of connecting to it when away from home. Ideas?

I suppose it depends on the media player you use, whether from an mp3 player to media player software on another PC. I'm looking into streaming media from my spare box (Epia M6000 running WinXP) and running it through Windows Media Player.

You can do this with windows media easy. If you use. Shoutcast/Icecast is another good solution. I set up a shoutcast server connected to winamp with a few plugins on the go. It's possible to log in to your personal webpage and control winamp remotely and you can listen to the stream from many diffrent players. You can even upload player stats to html

 

[afraser2k]

I decided in the end to go with GNUMP3d on Debian. Was very simple to setup and it picked up all the files in my shared directory. WinAMP plays all the files no problem.