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After getting the "our developers are working on it" runaround for months and months when Linksys didn't issue new drivers without the Broadcom vulnerability for my WPC54G v.4 adapter, rendering it totally useless, I decided to never, never, buy Linksys equipment.

I actually "inherited" this card from a relative who had bought it and found out he didn't need it.

This really has to show you how bad Linksys's customer relations were with me: I didn't even pay for the adapter myself and Linksys still managed to totally piss me off with their lying stories about their developers working on new drivers.

(Disclaimer: I've posted this before here, when it was on-topic. I'll probably stop bothering to post it sometime in the next 10 years or so.)

After getting the "our developers are working on it" runaround for months and months when Linksys didn't issue new drivers without the Broadcom vulnerability for my WPC54G v.4 adapter, rendering it totally useless, I decided to never, never, again buy Linksys equipment.

So you might be right that the firmware of the Linksys device I bought was upgradable, but that's useless if you have no way to make custom firmware and the vendor doesn't issue bug fixes for its original firmware.

The WRT160NL was designed to be the direct successor to the WRT54GL. It doesn't seem to have taken off, though, and while it supports Wireless N, for whatever reason, it doesn't support Gigabit Ethernet.

http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/products/WRT610N

It should be less than $160 and will probably give you the best performance when using N. Never tried it though.

Have you thought of trying Ethernet over power adapters instead? I'm using older Linksys Ethernet over power adapters and they work very well. I've had no problems with streaming, playing games, downloading torrents, etc.

http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/products/PowerLine

I hope none of the companies or individuals under scrutiny are related to the Taiwanese company Cybertan, whom Linksys (now Cisco) hired to maintain the Linux-based firmware builds associated with their WRT54GL (and WRT54G (early revision)) routers, which did (and still does) contain (the absolutely atrocious) Busybox code [286MB download].

The article smacks of false dichotomy. There are a number of solutions, not just Windows 7 or a hardware RAID controller.

To begin with, every NT-lineage Windows version ever produced supports software RAID out of the box. Add that to the fact that any major Linux distro today supports software RAID. And so do the *BSDs. And Mac OS X. And Solaris. And probably a bunch of other platforms I can't think of right now.

Hell, you could buy one of these one of these and throw the drives in it, connect it to your network switch, and presto -- instant RAID+NAS.

I think we would all like to know why you think Windows 7 is your only option, because if that's what you think, you don't know how mistaken you are.

Is a monopoly even possible for an open source company?

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