Linksys Compact Wireless-G Broadband Router - $66.99 Shipped - Amazon.com

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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007MGG2M/ref=nosim/101081219797-20" target="_blank"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007MGG2M.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0"></a><br /><br />New small form factor. Amazon has the new Linksys Compact Wireless-G Broadband Router for a low $66.99 with free shipping.<br /><br />The Linksys compact wireless-G broadband router is an all-in-one Internet-sharing router, four-port switch, and 54 Mbps wireless-G access point. Almost five times faster than 802.11b, it can also interoperate with any 802.11b device (at 11 Mbps). The Linksys compact wireless-G broadband router is really three devices in one small box. There's the wireless access point, which lets you connect both screamingly fast wireless-G (802.11g at 54 Mbps) and wireless-B (802.11b at 11 Mbps) devices to yout network. There's also a built-in four-port full-duplex 10/100 switch to connect your wired-Ethernet devices together.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007MGG2M/ref=nosim/101081219797-20" target="_blank">Linksys Compact Wireless-G Broadband Router - $66.99 Shipped - Amazon.com</a><br /><br /><b>Discuss the deal in this thread.</b>

[RossMAN]

I love the compact form factor, I wonder if the Sveasoft firmware hack works on this model?

[mrn8]

What does the Sveasoft hack do?

[RossMAN]

mrn8,

 

Satori-4.0 stable firmware for the WRT54G & GS

Compatible with both G and GS models

Linksys "AfterBurner" drivers with DMA

 

The release adds the following features ON TOP OF Standard Linksys features:

 

Auto channel select option

AP Watchdog timer option

New Management page help (thanks to Markus Baertschi)

SSH DSS keys now supported (thanks to Rod Whitby)

 

Standard Feature List

 

Setup

Default gateway for LAN ports

 

Advanced Routing

OSPF, BGP Routing

 

Wireless

Power mode selection

Antenna selection

Client mode (Ethernet bridging)

Adhoc mode

WDS peer-to-peer networking (10 links, multiple options)

 

Applications & Gaming

Modified to forward to any IP address

 

Administration

Bandwidth Management

Boot Wait

Cron

DHCP with static MAC->IP assignments

DNS Masq

Firewall control

Loopback option

NAS

NTP Client

PPP

PPTP VPN server

Resetbutton daemon

SSHD with public key or password login

Shorewall firewall

Syslog with remote logging

Telnet

Tftp

 

Diagnostics

Command Shell replaces ping and traceroute

Linux shell scripts rc_startup and rc_shutdown settable from the web

 

Status

Wireless signal strengths for clients, AP's, WDS links

 

Internal Modifications

BPAlogin fixes

Static DHCP leases

Added approximately 20 iptables filters

- include P2P, connection tracking

Added Quality of Service (for bandwidth mgmt)

Rewrote networking code for better stability

Added wireless connections daemon for client mode and WDS

Upgraded PPPD to 2.4.2

Added PPTP client and server

Various bug fixes to Linksys codebase

Latest Busybox

ADM6996 /proc interface

 

Coming Features

Peer-to-peer bandwidth mgmt (Kazaa, Gnutella, Bit Torrent, etc)

Multi-priority bandwidth mgmt interface

Bandwidth usage statistics

Remote montioring and statistics

Captive Portal

Dynamic download interface (add new packages on boot)

Move to latest uClibc

IPSEC

Note: OpenSSL is not in this version.

 

[linh]

if the Sveasoft hack works... someone may be getting more money from me... heh. probably not, but it does look spiffy.

[Brad]

This thing is very small - I think I read that it is about the size of an iPod (but square):

 

http://images10.newegg.com/productimage/33-124-047-02.JPG

[i-bystander]

Wow, that looks really tiny! :)

[Scott]

I believe the hardware is different from the current models. However, it does uses a linux based firmware as in previous models. I think the source is posted on the Linksys site, so it is only a matter of time before the "enhanced" firmwares start to show up.