<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I bought a TL-WR541G, which worked great from the moment I plugged it in. Good strong wifi signal and easy to work with L2TP in Israel. But it died on me after 2 months, not really sure why. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I settled on an Edimax, which connects to the ISP well, but has the weakest wifi I think I've ever seen (it barely covers one room). In the end I use my Edimax to connect to the ISP and my trusty WRT54G (classic by now) Linksys for pumping out the WiFi. </div>
<div><br></div><div>To date, I have had no real luck connecting my Linksys to an Israeli ISP with any firmware.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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The classic, Linksys WRT54G-L, has several GPIO ports to run the LEDs on the front, and a few extra. Since they are getting pretty old these days, you may be able to find them cheaply. Note that some models run Linux, some run a VXWorks built package, so check carefully. Linksys found that they could cut the memory requirments in half (and have other savings) by using a task specific firmware written in VX-Works, so they dropped the Linux version,<br>
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There was so much demand for the Linux version anyway, that they started to produce them again. Hence the WRT54G can either run Linux or be incompatible with Linux and you have to check the exact model you have. The WRT54G-L is one of the post VXworks, Linux versions, and will definately run it.<br>
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My favorite cheap router is the TP-Link TL-WR541G which sells for 120 NIS at Ivory and others. AFAIK It does not run Linux, but if anyone knows differently, I'd love to be pleasantly surprised.<br>
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If you don't care about Wifi, 802.11b routers are rescue from the trash items, and many of them ran linux, but not most. At that price, it's worth taking them home and checking.<br>
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