[Eug-lug] WRT54G and WRT54GL routers

[Ben Barrett]

Brian, this site might help you out some:  http://www.linksysinfo.org/
Also, just wanted to comment [I've had coffee now, so hopefully I'm more
helpful & making more sense!] that you should be able to find some online
recipes/lead-throughs on enabling WPA for the Linksys routers, since they
are such popular devices.
Does your friend live in a populated area, or a remote/rural area?  If
rural, their liability for connecting "in the clear" might be very low
(acceptably low...).
Do they have visitors or guests who they'd like to share their wifi with?
If yes, then a pre-shared key (PSK) using a simple passphrase.  I think the
only concerns you'll have is WPA vs WPA2, and device & driver compatibility
with those.

DD-WRT is still pretty popular, but is not the only way to go!!  If you're
using the latest firmware updates for the router itself (from LinkSys), it
should work fine too -- or any of the other up-to-date after-market firmware
upgrades would also suffice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Aftermarket_firmware  (I'm speaking of
the router firmware, this wikipedia category is generalized including
iPodLinux and such -- wikipedia's dd-wrt page does have a lot of links and
references which may also help you out & answer a bunch of questions.  :)

Ben



On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 9:40 AM, BB <bilbobaggab at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Bob
>
> Browser based makes it easier to talk to this person about setting up WPA
> encryption on their WRT54G router.  They will have to wait till I get my
> WRT54GL router in a couple of weeks.  I'm assuming the router interfaces =
are
> very similar.
>
> Brian
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Bob Miller <kbob at jogger-egg.com> wrote:
>
> > BB wrote:
> >
> > > 1) I just need to know if the access to this router is through a
> > command
> > > line interface.  Many of the newer routers, such as my D-Link DI-524,
> > use a
> > > browser based interface.  I imagine this browser based interface is
> > sort of
> > > like the Win Modem, not too popular with the command line crowd.  It's
> > easy
> > > to setup for the novice, but not very clean/clear/versatile for the
> > expert.
> >
> > Linksys' installed software on the WRT54GL has a browser-based
> > administrative interface.  I haven't used ddWRT but I'd expect it to
> > be possible to administrate it through a command line.
> >
> > --
> > Bob Miller                              K<bob>
> >                                        kbob at jogger-egg.com
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