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WRT54G Successor Falls Flat On Promises

Posted by Soulskill on 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."

2 of 113 comments (clear)

  1. Re:$409.99 WHAT THE FUCK by AmiMoJo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just get a Buffalo. Good OpenWRT/DD-WRT support (some come pre-installed with DD-WRT), good price, good hardware. Linksys have been shit since the late 90s when I first encountered them, and the WRT54G was never that great to begin with (how many hardware revisions were there?)

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  2. Give it more than one day, or even week by dbIII · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If the problems can be fixed by the early adopters on the bleeding edge compiling code that has been supplied to them then a more user-friendly patch is probably only a few days away.
    Early adopters to something ambitious should expect a hiccup every now and again.