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Netgear's open wireless-G router for open source hackers

Netgear's open wireless-G router for open source hackers

Posted Jun 30, 2008 14:12 UTC (Mon) by jreiser (subscriber, #11027)
Parent article: Netgear's open wireless-G router for open source hackers

The Linksys/Cisco WRT54GL has twice as much flash memory (8MB) for the same price.  The other
specs are essentially identical: 16MB RAM, 4+1 ports 10/100 ethernet with wireless, Broadcom
(MIPS) 200MHz CPU.  The physical form factor is different.  The lack of USB2.0 ports is a
glaring omission for both boxes.


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Netgear's open wireless-G router for open source hackers

Posted Jun 30, 2008 18:24 UTC (Mon) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

Hmm, you sure? My WRT54GL has 4MB, and the OpenWRT wiki agrees: http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Linksys/WRT54GL

Netgear's open wireless-G router for open source hackers

Posted Jun 30, 2008 19:02 UTC (Mon) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

Where do you get the idea that the WRT54GL has 8 MB of flash? Wikipedia thinks it has 4 MB. It
looks like the new thing is a slightly faster processor replacement for the WRT54GL with a new
number to reflect the different focus.

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