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   From: marianjones@helpfulpeople.com   
      
   Andy Burns wrote:   
   > Marian wrote:   
   >   
   >> In the early days the WRT-54G had enough memory to flash DD-WRT on it   
   >   
   > Still have one kicking around ... not powerful enough for anything   
   > useful these days.   
      
   Hi Andy,   
      
   I just checked. I've still got two "kicking around" (but currently unused).   
       
      
   Over time, the "old" router becomes the "last used" router, in which case   
   the venerable Linksys WRT-54G that we cut out teeth on, is "really old".   
      
   My point to whomever it was that decried the complexity of setting up a   
   router, is that we all went through that learning curve many years ago.   
      
   We've all likely "bricked" a router, and, in my neighborhood, people give   
   me perfectly good routers that they bricked & I use TFTP to unbrick 'em.   
       
      
   Whenever people retire their WISP, they give me their Ubiquiti Rocket M5   
   radios also, so I must have a dozen of them sprinkled around the yard.   
       
      
   Some of my radios are so powerful they can connect to Wi-Fi 10 miles away.   
      
   They're all the same when it comes to router setup, although the   
   professional equipment has a bunch of neat tools for spectrum analysis.   
      
   The point being I agreed with those who said that we all overcame the   
   "complexity" over the decades since we've been setting up routers forever.   
      
   BTW, the only time I "explicitly" ran into "virtual interfaces" was when   
   setting up an old router on DD-WRT as a bridge repeater & client bridge.   
      
   I needed that because my Windows desktop from 2009 doesn't have a Wi-Fi   
   card, so I used an Ethernet cable to connect the eth0 port of the Windows   
   PC to the old WNR834Bv2 router which connected wirelessly to the AP.   
      
   I forget if it was set up as a client bridge or as a bridge repeater, but   
   the advantage was that I got an "extra" access point out of the deal.   
       
      
   Note the "_nomap" on that image which is years old, as all my SSIDs have   
   _nomap on them, except for the virtual LANs, it turned out, but that's   
   because I couldn't figure out how to adjust the DD-WRT software for it.   
      
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