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I’ve written about Linksys WRT54G / WRT54GS firmware in the past so I feel obligated to post an update. I can’t believe how big of a deal James Ewing of Sveasoft has made of this. To give a brief summary, he appears to basically be following the GPL with his firmware development and using a loophole to charge people for early access to the latest version. Fine, whatever, I don’t care. I’m patient. What bothers me is how he seems to keep finding ways to keep people from distributing the firmware, which appears to me to be in clear violation of GPL. At first IRead More →

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I’m now using the Sveasoft firmware in my Linksys wireless router. The firmware is definitely an improvement over the standard feature set. The ability to boost the transmit power is a nice added feature, but I’ve read of many people boosting the transmit power to 200, which will probably fry their router and doens’t produce any better performance than a setting of 50-60 (which is ideal). I hope Linksys dosen’t have a warranty problem because of the ignorant over-boosters causing failures because I really support Linksys releasing their firmware — so many other manufacturers have not. I am very disappointed with the Sveasoft website. FirstRead More →

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Speaking of network equipment, I just found out about the Linksys WRT54GS router and the open source, Linux-based firmware from Sveasoft.com. It does everything I wanted my SnapGear router to do at 1/3 the price, plus wireless. I’ll probably be getting rid of the SnapGear due to missing features and slow updates. The SnapGear was the best router from a feature standpoint when it was released, but the price was too high and no one developed any third-party firmware for it as far as I could tell.Read More →