WRT54G Successor Falls Flat On Promises

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @06:18PM from the too-good-to-be-true dept.

New submitter JImbob0i0 writes: "Back in January, Linksys/Belkin made a big deal about their new router, the WRT1900AC, which they claimed was a successor to the venerable WRT54G, and how they were working with OpenWRT. They released it this week, but their promises have fallen far short. You need to apply patches (which don't apply cleanly) and compile yourself in order to get it to work... so long as you don't need wireless support. There has not been much response from Linksys on the mailing list to criticism of the improperly formatted patch dump and poor reviews as a result."

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Re:$409.99 WHAT THE FUCK by rsmith-mac · 2014-04-22 19:32 · Score: 5, Informative

The router has just been released and none of Amazon's usual resellers (including themself) have it in stock yet, so only a handful of grubbier resellers are listing it. The list price is $249, and undoubtedly it will be even cheaper than that once it's in good supply.