Netgear now touting open source WRT-compatible wireless router

[Lloyd Kvam]

On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 20:39 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On Jul 3, 2008, at 13:04, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> 
> > Say, if anybody's seen a small (vs. a standard PC stuffed full of PCI
> > cards) a/b/g/n unit that can handle the openwrt-ish open firmwares,
> > please let me know.  Apparently, since the Aussies shut down Buffalo
> > in patent court they don't exist.
> 
> 
> To half-answer my own question, Linksys came out with a new model in  
> the past few days:
>    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124296
> 
> which satisfies most of my criteria.  The DD-WRT guys have been  
> working on getting dual-band and wide-channels working on a previous  
> rev., so it's not quite free yet, but my guess is it will be.
> 
> USB and GigE too; neat.

Hopefully that is true.  The port line in the specs says
	Ports 1 x 10/100M WAN; 4 x 10/100M LAN
but that is contradicted down in the features blurb where it says all
ports support gigabit speeds.

> 
> -Bill
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