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Nov 8, 2023 02:48
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remember when everyone had one of these guys? i remember.
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consumer oriented military design
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Nov 8, 2023 03:02
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fart simpson posted:remember when everyone had one of these guys? i remember. ya I had one.
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Nov 8, 2023 03:02
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mine would overheat with openwrt on it, so i hacksawed up an old northbridge heatsink and super glued pieces of it to all the chips on the wrt and left the top cover off
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Nov 8, 2023 03:03
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boy o boy is this thing learning long sentences
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110723_8 posted:boy o boy is this thing learning long sentences do you have any hobbies other than donating money to jeffrey?
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fart simpson posted:do you have any hobbies other than donating money to jeffrey?
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Nov 8, 2023 03:12
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Jonny 290 posted:mine would overheat with openwrt on it, so i hacksawed up an old northbridge heatsink and super glued pieces of it to all the chips on the wrt and left the top cover off every router from this era would overheat. they had like a 9 month lifespan on average, i swear. the disposable routers period
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Nov 8, 2023 03:14
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well-read undead posted:every router from this era would overheat. they had like a 9 month lifespan on average, i swear. the disposable routers period they also had nat table memory on the order of kilobytes so that's why everybody was always "you gotta reboot your router every 72 hours"
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Nov 8, 2023 03:34
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this is my $49 edgerouter lite and i havent had to configure or reboot it in three years. a wrt would poo poo its pants at a quarter of these connections established long way baby, etc etc
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Nov 8, 2023 03:35
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Jonny 290 posted:this is my $49 edgerouter lite and i havent had to configure or reboot it in three years. a wrt would poo poo its pants at a quarter of these connections established too bad ubiquiti sucks as a company
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Nov 8, 2023 03:40
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nudgenudgetilt posted:too bad ubiquiti sucks as a company a company that sucks? now ive heard everything
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Nov 8, 2023 03:42
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linksys with regard to 54g
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Nov 8, 2023 03:43
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all companies suck we gotta just learn to deal with it
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fart simpson posted:a company that sucks? now ive heard everything
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Nov 8, 2023 03:53
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i remember
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Nov 8, 2023 03:56
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post hole digger posted:thread delivers.
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Nov 8, 2023 06:53
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Yeah I got one of those revisions where Linksys decided to completely change the hardware to garbage specs and use the same model number. Was absolute dog poo poo and somehow would gently caress up pulling down email. Didn't even have enough ram to even work correctly and they shipped it broken that. Outcry was so bad they created the wrt54gl (aka the hardware before they hosed it) to try and quell people. I'm still so pissed about it I haven't bought a Linksys in almost 20 years.
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Nov 8, 2023 07:09
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TerminalRaptor posted:I'm still so pissed about it I haven't bought a Linksys in almost 20 years. lol i did the same but also with netgear and d-link because alllll of it was garbage. so i ended up buying an airport extreme and enjoyed having a router that just worked all the time without having to think about it for the next 10+ years
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Nov 8, 2023 07:15
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i had one of these but it was the v5 or whatever that had way reduced specs and couldn't run tomato or ddwrt
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TerminalRaptor posted:Yeah I got one of those revisions where Linksys decided to completely change the hardware to garbage specs and use the same model number. Was absolute dog poo poo and somehow would gently caress up pulling down email. Didn't even have enough ram to even work correctly and they shipped it broken that. yeah this one
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Nov 8, 2023 07:16
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the wrt54gl did get a new burst of life because the ham operators figured out to hack the firmware to let it run on what is basically channel -1 if you just do the math, so it became the core of the 2.4 ghz ham mesh networks. later on they hacked better devices; i had a setup for it for a couple of years with a 600 milliwatt bullet m2 into a patch antenna. Motherfucker kept a 54mbps link to the radio on Green Mountain, seven miles away
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Nov 8, 2023 07:18
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i had one of these and my dad had some tech guy come to our house and set it up. he put a mac address filter on it, probably in revenge for bringing him to our house
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Nov 8, 2023 07:22
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apparently i bought one for $69.99 in 2004 from newegg, op
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I stopped reading at 69
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echinopsis posted:I stopped reading at 69 imessage me 
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Nov 8, 2023 11:42
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obsessing over getting a V4 so it would support the full firmware rather than the cut down V5+ version, and then never using it as anything except a basic wifi router
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Nov 8, 2023 12:47
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i remember dd-wrt had some special edition that ran on those 2mb flash versions, worked pretty ok
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Nov 8, 2023 13:21
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still have mine somewhere. it was great in college and then when it was well past its prime I used it as a wireless bridge when I moved to the city. ganked someone’s open WiFi that was only visible at the other end of my apartment and ran a cable to my room while I waited for Verizon to install my DSL
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Nov 8, 2023 13:32
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Jonny 290 posted:this is my $49 edgerouter lite and i havent had to configure or reboot it in three years. a wrt would poo poo its pants at a quarter of these connections established i've got a little mikrotik with an incomprehensible model number that just sips power and supports a little over ~29k simultaneous connections it's the second one i've had since the ol' 54gl had to be replaced because it couldn't keep up with the torrents. i actually kept a pair of the 54gls in use for another five years or so because i had a wireless bridge setup to give my mom internet at her apartment down the street where i used to live. they were rock solid for that. they basically just got surplussed because i moved.
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Nov 8, 2023 14:20
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that era of wifi and router janitoring sucked so bad
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Nov 8, 2023 14:40
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polyester concept posted:that era of wifi and router janitoring sucked so bad and the wrt54g with some variety of open source firmware was a significant improvement over anything you could buy at the time in the consumer/soho space
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Nov 8, 2023 15:02
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This page isn’t loading has anybody tried restarting the router?
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infernal machines posted:i've got a little mikrotik with an incomprehensible model number that just sips power and supports a little over ~29k simultaneous connections mikrotik ftw ive got their old rear end poe router and it handles my 500 Mbps broadband and 4 wifi APs like a champ
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Nov 8, 2023 15:28
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polyester concept posted:that era of wifi and router janitoring sucked so bad
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Nov 8, 2023 15:28
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pining for that era as consumer routers now basically don’t have a web interface and the app they want you to use gargles balls and requires an account. maybe next year I’ll try to get a prosumer setup going
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:imessage me lol
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