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Hi I have been using openwrt for a while and I really love to have a flexible router. I would like to do a similar setup for my parents, the price for the Asus WL-500GP has gone up, and the the v1 is hard to come by.
What would be the best alternative for a router. I would like to have 16 or 32 MB memory and at least one usb port.
I am thinking of a Fonera2, do you have good experience of running openwrt 8.09.1 on it ? Is it hard to install openwrt on it ?
Best Regards
Selepo2
Lurk around on e-bay for an old WiFi router with 8/32MB of flash/RAM supported by OpenWRT, i.e. Netgear WGT634U, for $30 or less. I deally, I would like to get a Linksys WRTU54G-TM with 8/64MB of Flash/RAM auctioned on CowBoom for less than $10; however, be ware that this device isn't yet supported by OpenWRT.
This question is better asked in the dd-wrt forums, they are more open to questions.
The Asus WL-500W is a 500gP with a Broadcom 11n mini-pci card. It's radio isn't compatible with OpenWrt but you can swap it out with a $59 Sparklan WMIA-199N Atheros 3x3 11n mini-pci card for a very sweet little 802.11n router with USB. The 500W comes with 3 antennas with ufl pigtails ready to connect to the Sparklan card.
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