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Yeah, I had a few of these and ran a lot of different firmwares on them. I think the last one I had was running tomato.

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>In a world where our routers look more and more like upside-down spiders than things you would like to have in your living room, there are only a handful of routers that may be considered “famous.” Steve Jobs’ efforts to sell AirPort—most famously by using a hula hoop during a product demo—definitely deserve notice in this category, and the mesh routers made by the Amazon-owned Eero probably fit in this category as well. But a certain Linksys router, despite being nearly 20 years old at this point, takes the cake—and it’s all because of a feature that initially went undocumented that proved extremely popular with a specific user base. Today’s Tedium talks about the blue-and-black icon of wireless access, the Linksys WRT54G.

Yeah, I had a few of these and ran a lot of different firmwares on them. I think the last one I had was running tomato. Archive: https://archive.today/epDKw From the post: >>In a world where our routers look more and more like upside-down spiders than things you would like to have in your living room, there are only a handful of routers that may be considered “famous.” Steve Jobs’ efforts to sell AirPort—most famously by using a hula hoop during a product demo—definitely deserve notice in this category, and the mesh routers made by the Amazon-owned Eero probably fit in this category as well. But a certain Linksys router, despite being nearly 20 years old at this point, takes the cake—and it’s all because of a feature that initially went undocumented that proved extremely popular with a specific user base. Today’s Tedium talks about the blue-and-black icon of wireless access, the Linksys WRT54G.
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By the time this article was published, the G had long since been replaced by the GL - I don't know that I've ever seen a "G" model in the wild.

I still have a number of GL units stashed around that run the last version of Tomato and provide WiFi and a few Ethernet ports to systems. They're literally one of those set and forget units.

This article was written as if the person writing it had never seen anything other than the junk his cable company provides.