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Linksys WRT54GS Wireless-G Broadband Router with SpeedBooster - Electronics

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Linksys WRT54GS Wireless-G Broadband Router with SpeedBooster

List Price: $89.99    Our Price: Too Low To Display


Manufacturer: Linksys
MPN: WRT54GS

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Features:

  • Industry-leading Parental Control capability, Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) and 802.1x
  • Shares Internet connection and other resources with Ethernet wired, 802.11g, 802.11b, and SpeedBooster devices
  • Internet-sharing Router, 4-port Switch, and Wireless-G (802.11g) Access Point
  • Protects all wireless transmissions with 128-bit encryption
  • New SpeedBooster technology increases wireless network performance by up to 35 percent

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Customer Reviews

Very poor wireless work

The wireless drops regularly, and the technical support to resolve it (to get a replacement) is very very very poor. I would not purchase another linksys product: I have had many similar bad experiences.


version Differences and DO YOU CARE??...

[previous reviewer]- you are absolutely correct that the new version (5) of this router is downgraded compared to others. the "original" router shipped with 32mb ram and 8mb flash, and version 5 shipped with 16mb ram, 2mb flash. you should also take note that you implied that v.4 was a fully featured product; it only has 16mb of ram and a 4mb flash (a downgrade from v.3). but you are correct, the most crippling thing that linksys did to this router was switch the operating system from the open source linux to VxWorks.

So i guess the real question is: DO I CARE?

for most people the answer is no. if you hook this router into your network, it will run smoothly, no problems for the average consumer. the reason so many people are criticizing the router and its new release is because the old wrt54g and wrt54gs were big items in hacker communities, and they afforded people who wanted to modify their router's firmware great flexibility to do so. the added ram fueled the power and speed that people were able to gain from their router.

so if you are !NOT! looking to modify this router, i would give it five stars.

if you !ARE! looking to modify this router, i would give it -1 stars, just because the old product was so good compared to the new one.

/*if you are deciding between the wrt54g and the wrt54gs, you need to have speed booster adapters to gain speed. those adapters will cost 20 bucks over the price of the regular ones (can get pricey if you have many computers) the older versions (1.0-4.0) of the wrt54g can be enabled for speed booster, but you won't have the hardware advantages provided by the wrt54gs.*/

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