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Monday, June 14, 2004

And you thought it was just a wireless router...

I read a really interesting aricle last week by Robert X. Cringley about wireless routers, specifically the Linksys WRT54G which is one of the market leading SoHo broadband wireless router/firewall boxes. It's firmware is written in Linux and is completely Open Source. Some Linux programmers with probably far too much time on their hands have written new firmware for it which, if you install, effectively a Wireless ISP-in-a-box supporting traffic shaping and VoIP.

There is also a followup article where he talks about a guy who is setting up a wireless ISP in his neighbourhood of San Francisco (it would be, wouldn't it), after being inspired by the article above.

Permalink: David P / 3:37 pm

Comments:

So, San Fran is by the sea and so is....Portsmouth. How about Pompi-Fi?

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Mike : Thursday, June 17, 2004 8:32:00 pm

Has anyone in the group got one of these? Do they work with the Cisco VPN client?

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Stew : Monday, June 21, 2004 9:04:00 am