Netgear now touting open source WRT-compatible wireless router

[Arc Riley]

>From the specs, it looks like mostly marketing hype to me.  If it was really
designed for hacking it'd include more flash, ram, and pinouts for
expanding/hacking the hardware.  Even if they were especially capped for
spec/cost, it's not hard to offer access to the I2C bus, very useful for
adding ram and some peripherals.

There are many Netgear routers already supported by the various WRT-derived
projects.  My ex recently bought a home router, just a standard Netgear from
bestbuy, and needed to add QOS support for voip - he (who often needs help
editing config files) managed to install a custom firmware without any help.

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Shawn O'Shea <shawn at eth0.net> wrote:

> Netgear is now offering a wireless home router tailored for running open
> source firmware (ala the Linksys WRT-L series). I've not really been
> interested in Linksys gear because I've had terrible experience with the
> hardware just crapping out, and I've had good experience with Netgear, so I
> was glad to see this.
>
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/wgr614l-wireless-g-router.html
>
> -Shawn
>
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