Hi guys,
I've owned my Linksys WRT54GS router for a while now, and it's sucked! Crashes at least three times a day, and today, when I added one more laptop to the wireless network, it decided it wanted to die every few minutes. Its been iffy for a while now, even after updating the firmware to the latest Linksys version (which made it worse).
Until today that is. I decided I'd try one of the open source alternatives to the Linksys firmware, and went about downloading a version of DD-WRT. Now I've gotta mention here that this isn't the normal version a lot of people with other versions of the WRT54G/GS run. Since mine is a v5.1, a lot of them weren't compatible as the v5 and v5.1 have less internal memory.
So thankfully, DD-WRT comes in a Micro flavour which cuts out quite a lot of the added stuff in normal versions, but still is well enough featured to be better than the Linksys firmware
Result: After a dodgy flashing procedure, my WRT54GS is now a much much better piece of kit. It's only been a day now, and it's been MUCH more stable than previous firmware! I also managed to find a method of freeing up half the memory so it now has 16mb to play with rather than the 8 as standard.
I'd recommend anyone having problems with their router to try it if they're brave enough. The end result is a much better experience and less headaches!
Atari
I've owned my Linksys WRT54GS router for a while now, and it's sucked! Crashes at least three times a day, and today, when I added one more laptop to the wireless network, it decided it wanted to die every few minutes. Its been iffy for a while now, even after updating the firmware to the latest Linksys version (which made it worse).
Until today that is. I decided I'd try one of the open source alternatives to the Linksys firmware, and went about downloading a version of DD-WRT. Now I've gotta mention here that this isn't the normal version a lot of people with other versions of the WRT54G/GS run. Since mine is a v5.1, a lot of them weren't compatible as the v5 and v5.1 have less internal memory.
So thankfully, DD-WRT comes in a Micro flavour which cuts out quite a lot of the added stuff in normal versions, but still is well enough featured to be better than the Linksys firmware
Result: After a dodgy flashing procedure, my WRT54GS is now a much much better piece of kit. It's only been a day now, and it's been MUCH more stable than previous firmware! I also managed to find a method of freeing up half the memory so it now has 16mb to play with rather than the 8 as standard.
I'd recommend anyone having problems with their router to try it if they're brave enough. The end result is a much better experience and less headaches!
Atari