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WRT54G2 - Does it work?

FremFrem Registered User regular
edited July 2008 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
So, I had a horrible experience with the Linksys WRT54G v8 router; by the time it died, it was locking up and crashing every 30 seconds. But the sales guy assured me that Linksys had cleaned up their act and the WRT54G2 had different hardware and operating system. Since my WRT54G was dead and the store had no wifi, I wasn't exactly able to do research to double check this.

Now I'm at home leaching internet off some helpful neighbors, and Wikipedia informs me that the WRT54G2 is essentially a repackaging of the exact same router hardware and operating system I've just had such a horrible time with, but Amazon is filled with people singing it's praises. Did they really improve the router OS that much, or should I just return the stupid thing?

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  • Desert_Eagle25Desert_Eagle25 Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Hm, I like my Linksys, it seems to run fine. The only problem is when I try to access it's options page (192.168.1.1) it'll occassionally lock-up and not enter it (irritating when trying to add port exceptions) but lately it's been behaving and I haven't been locked out of it at all.

    Otherwise, it's a fine piece of hardware.

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  • DaedalusDaedalus Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    If it doesn't run DD-WRT, don't buy it.

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  • taliosfalcontaliosfalcon Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    the only WRT worth buying is the WRT54GL

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  • victor_c26victor_c26 Chicago, ILRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    taliosfalcon wrote: »
    the only WRT worth buying is the WRT54GL

    The WRT54GL is basically the new WRT54G v 1.0 - v 3.0.

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  • TransparentTransparent Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    victor_c26 wrote: »
    taliosfalcon wrote: »
    the only WRT worth buying is the WRT54GL

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  • Evil_ReaverEvil_Reaver Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I bought the WRT54G2 a few months ago. I was nervous about buying it because Linksys removed the external antennas which I thought would make reception shitty. Fortunately, I haven't had any issues with the router and reception is good, even on my Macbook Pro which is notorious for having wireless issues because of its aluminum enclosure. I don't like it as much as my original WRT54G router that has DD-WRT on it, but it gets the job done, so I can't really complain about it.

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  • FremFrem Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Yeah, so we're returning it tomorrow. Realized that the death of our current WRT54G v8 router might just be due to software or something, so I flashed it with DD-WRT. It works! In theory. TINY system resources, DD-WRT uses up a lot of it. We'll see if it can stay connected to IRC for five hours straight.

    But, um. I followed the instructions here, set up WPA wifi, entered our pppoe connection info, unplugged the router to move it, and when it was plugged back in, the router control panel didn't show up at 192.168.1.1 anymore. I mean, it appears to work fine (for the fifteen minutes it's been running), but I'd kinda like to muck around with the settings a little more. Did I misset something?

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  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    run > cmd

    ipconfig /all

    Check your IP address. The first three sections + .1 should be your router's access IP.

    For example, the IP of my laptop is 10.10.10.102. My router's settings are accessed via 10.10.10.1

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  • L*2*G*XL*2*G*X Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Transparent wrote: »
    victor_c26 wrote: »
    taliosfalcon wrote: »
    the only WRT worth buying is the WRT54GL

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  • FremFrem Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Organichu wrote: »
    run > cmd

    ipconfig /all

    Check your IP address. The first three sections + .1 should be your router's access IP.

    For example, the IP of my laptop is 10.10.10.102. My router's settings are accessed via 10.10.10.1

    I *know* my router is at 192.168.1.1 because I use static IP addresses. Additionally, I can ping it and attempt to log in via telnet (though it rejects the router user name and password I initially set up for some reason).

    It appears to be keeping my network safe by preventing me from using SSH locally. >_<

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  • AzioAzio Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    L*2*G*X wrote: »
    Transparent wrote: »
    victor_c26 wrote: »
    taliosfalcon wrote: »
    the only WRT worth buying is the WRT54GL

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  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Frem wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    run > cmd

    ipconfig /all

    Check your IP address. The first three sections + .1 should be your router's access IP.

    For example, the IP of my laptop is 10.10.10.102. My router's settings are accessed via 10.10.10.1

    I *know* my router is at 192.168.1.1 because I use static IP addresses. Additionally, I can ping it and attempt to log in via telnet (though it rejects the router user name and password I initially set up for some reason).

    It appears to be keeping my network safe by preventing me from using SSH locally. >_<

    In this case I am ignorant.

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