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Posted at 8:46 AM on Wednesday 10/15/08 by
Ben
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Buy.com has the basic but solid refurbished Linksys WRT54G 802.11g Wireless Router for $33 with free shipping. This is a tried and true router for those who don't want to fuss with X2 X3 MIMO N hype. [BizRate]
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    Mordor - Posted 9:11 am PDT 10/15/08 (136 Posts)  Report Spam

    I bought one of these back in 1942 - still running strong!

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    dandragonrage - Posted 9:20 am PDT 10/15/08 (594 Posts)  Report Spam

    It WAS a tried and true router - 4 years ago.

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    inferno - Posted 9:22 am PDT 10/15/08 (855 Posts)  Report Spam

    Only problem is the newer ones aren't supported by the open source firmware (hyperwrt, dd-wrt tomato) which can make these pretty useless!

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    RavinDJ - Posted 9:24 am PDT 10/15/08 (304 Posts)  Report Spam

    #3 - that's why you get WRT54GL :p

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    dgower - Posted 9:27 am PDT 10/15/08 (201 Posts)  Report Spam

    these are old back of the warehouse full of dust with rat holes in them. I think you'll be safe with them being an older version to use the open source firmware.

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    ChugokuOtaku - Posted 9:28 am PDT 10/15/08 (1581 Posts)  Report Spam

    basic but solidly refurbished?

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    dandragonrage - Posted 9:29 am PDT 10/15/08 (594 Posts)  Report Spam

    No. "basic but solid" "refurbished WRT54g" (so he claims, anyway)

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    jsehlms - Posted 10:10 am PDT 10/15/08 (77 Posts)  Report Spam

    FWIW, we ordered at least 10 of these a few months ago when they were listed and all work great. Some we gave to employees for home use, others we put DDWRT on for specific uses.

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    byuan85 - Posted 10:29 am PDT 10/15/08 (352 Posts)  Report Spam

    God has spoken.

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    kongfused - Posted 11:07 am PDT 10/15/08 (16 Posts)  Report Spam

    I ordered one of these refurb units last month. They were backordered then, and just recently received one.
    It was a version 8 WRT54G. You can load DD-WRT (micro) on it.

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    ToDzKi - Posted 12:13 pm PDT 10/15/08 (84 Posts)  Report Spam

    Found one at Goodwill for $6.99 and DD-WRT'd it.

    $33? BAH!

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    jlayman920 - Posted 2:08 pm PDT 10/15/08 (362 Posts)  Report Spam

    I had a new one that was a piece of shite, it needed reset at least once a day. I beat it with a hammer in a fit of rage, went and bought a netgear and have had no problems since (neither router nor rage related).

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    megabyte10240 - Posted 3:06 pm PDT 10/15/08 (592 Posts)  Report Spam

    I can tell you this a reliable router, dlink is baconnaise

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    Oio - Posted 7:56 pm PDT 10/15/08 (1382 Posts)  Report Spam

    DD-WRT on the WRT54G is amazing. Super stable, advanced features found in hardware costing 10x the price.

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    luckylane - Posted 7:06 am PDT 10/16/08 (73 Posts)  Report Spam

    classic

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    BLT5000 - Posted 4:43 pm PDT 10/16/08 (154 Posts)  Report Spam

    This thing is a champ. I've had mine for about 4 years. Running Tomato on it...

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