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Creating A Super-Router (For Free)

Posted by timothy on from the if-you-own-the-hardware-that-is dept.

Aaron writes "Kind of an interesting discussion and story over at Broadband Reports about the flurry of vendors releasing modified Linux based firmware updates for the Linksys WRT54G router. The updates bring a whole new level of functionality Linksys couldn't be bothered to incorporate. Among a long list of free improvements is the incorporation of bandwidth management, allowing users to end the days of choppy VoIP conversations without swapping out hardware."

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  1. NOW they tell me by unbiasedbystander · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's wonderful to learn that I could have powered it up before I sold the piece of junk. *sigh* www.ebay.com

  2. Not true by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    One of the problems with VoIP has been choppy communications when users are making heavy use of their broadband connection.

    Tha t's abs olutel y n ot true.

    -- Reg ards
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    1. Re:Not true by Luyseyal · · Score: 4, Funny
      Heh, sounds like Marketplace on NPR yesterday... a VoIP advocate was dialed into the studio via VoIP and his connection kept dropping out. It was pretty funny.

      -l

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    2. Re:Not true by Goldfinger7400 · · Score: 4, Funny
      For those of you who missed it, there is a RealPlayer feed on marketplace.org.

      And how exactly are we to distinguish the VoIP dropoffs from the RealPlayer dropoffs?

  3. For free? by burgburgburg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that free as in beer, free as in software, free as in "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose, Nothing, and that's all that Bobbie left me" or free as in "If you free me from these handcuffs now, I promise not to press charges". I always get them confused.

    1. Re:For free? by ColaMan · · Score: 4, Funny

      Free as in "whateva-you-can-pull-outta-the-dumpsta-before-the -truck-comes" free.

      so, that's "free, but it stinks?"

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  4. Not entirely accurate... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    In order for this to be true, where is my free Linksys router?

  5. Re:Linksys + Broadband + Vonage = cheap phone by eggoeater · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unless the only good broadband available is DSL....
    through your phone line...
    which is provided by...
    Verizon.
    *SIGH*

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  6. New Business Model by mariox19 · · Score: 5, Funny

    All kidding aside, here's the business model for 2004:

    1. Develop a Linux-based product that, while operable, lacks everything but bare bones functionality
    2. Wait for the hacker community to rush to outdo one another adding functionality -- and hence, value -- to your product
    3. Profit!!!
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  7. slash 22 by MisanthropeLifeform · · Score: 4, Funny

    If it wasn't on slashdot, I wouldn't know about it. Because it is on slashdot, downloading it will be hell.