which router

[Justin]

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.

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.

To date, I have had no real luck connecting my Linksys to an Israeli ISP
with any firmware.



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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,
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Geoff.
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