Want a professional router at consumer-grade price? Wired's wiki teaches you how to unlock your regular, old router's hidden potential.
How To...Supercharge Your Wireless Router
The upgrades are as easy as installing a more advanced firmware on your router, and Wired walks you through the steps to do so.
Why would you want to? If you've been having trouble getting signal in some parts of your home, it will boost the signal power. You can also prioritize what should be getting the most bandwidth, and exercise a bit more control over your router's security.
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Unfortunately, these firmware only work for the earlier versions. The later versions of Linksys routers have less memory and are unable to be powered to do such extraneous features which made this router so popular back in the day.
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There is the WRT54GL model that will also take these upgraded firmwares, but then if you're going to go that far, why not get a real Soekris net4521 with two PC-Card 802.11 wireless cards with external antennas, a 10/100Base-T Ethernet interface, and really build your own?
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