<p>Thanks, Paul.<br>
Not that I don't appreciate Rick's advice, but like you, I got the WRT for free (freecycle), so it is not a question of what to get, but of what to do with what I have. And since my current dir655 cannot be reflashed OS, I work with what I can. :)<br>
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<p>Thank you,<br>
Ehud</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 20, 2011 11:15 AM, "Paul Zander" <<a href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org">paulz@ieee.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit">Ehud,<br><br>A few months back I got a V 6.0 router at a flea market. I was convinced it would be a better use of my time to buy a different unit from Newegg. (Which is still on my to to list.)<br>
<br>Maybe I should try flashing it as a "science project" and not feel disappointed in the results.<br><br>Paul<br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 11/19/11, Rick Moen <i><<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" target="_blank">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16,16,255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px"><br>From: Rick Moen <<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" target="_blank">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [conspire] re-flashing Linksys WRT54gV5 with open source<br>
To: <a href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br>Date: Saturday, November 19, 2011, 11:40 PM<br><br><div>Quoting Ehud Kaldor (<a href="http://mc/compose?to=ehud.kaldor@gmail.com" target="_blank">ehud.kaldor@gmail.com</a>):<br>
<br><br>Other people's view may differ from the following, but these are mine.<br><br>> Linksys WRT54gV5 <br><br>My view: 8 MB RAM and 2 MB of flash is unacceptably anaemic for a<br>Linux-based WAP / ethernet / gateway device. Period. If I had one of<br>
those -- a WAP so anaemic they had to preload it with VxWorks -- I'd<br>sell it. In my view, the bare minimum acceptable hardware for such a<br>device, the floor below which you should not bother, is twice that<br>amount of each metric.<br>
<br>Yes, there are ways to shoehorn severely pared down and barely<br>functional 'micro' or 'micro-plus' versions of things like DD-WRT into<br>it. No, you should not do that, because it will be a huge hassle,<br>
because the results will not be satisfactory, and because you should<br>spend your time and effort in better ways.<br><br>But you're a masochist who has
boundless time and who doesn't mind<br>living through huge amounts of frustration and disappointment? OK, go ahead.<br><br><a href="http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Version_5_And_6_Router_Information" target="_blank">http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Version_5_And_6_Router_Information</a><br>
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