{"id":277,"date":"2007-03-05T06:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=277"},"modified":"2007-07-29T12:41:50","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T19:41:50","slug":"new-router","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"new router"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/SMC2804WBR-Barricade-2-4GHz-Wireless-Broadband\/dp\/B00009APTT\">SMC2804WBR<\/a> has started to play up a bit (arbitrarily causing loss of connectivity), so this weekend I finally got around to replacing it. Mrs Elbeno was complaining of having to power cycle it 2 or 3 times a day.<\/p>\n<p>Where wireless broadband routers are concerned, experience has taught me that once you get a working setup, you should not fiddle any more. And that pretty much all routers are flaky&#8230; it&#8217;s all down to getting stable firmware. Back in the UK I had an older SMC model that I kept relatively stable for a few years, which was why I bought SMC again when I moved to the US. However, I had prepared for this day when I knew the router would eventually fail. About 6 months ago I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linksysinfo.org\/forums\/showthread.php?t=47124\">did my research<\/a> and trawled through the local electronics stores looking for a Linksys WRT54G with the right serial number.<\/p>\n<p>So after a visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/openwrt.org\/\">OpenWRT.org<\/a> and some settings-tweaking for the last hour (and leaving my cable modem off for a while so that it would forget the MAC address of the machine using it &#8211; why oh why do they do that?), I am now connected to the Intertubes through a proper linux box. Yay! The SMC used to get very hot, particularly when stressing it (e.g. bittorrenting wirelessly). I have higher hopes for the new box, in part because I have much better control over it. Time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately my SMC2804WBR has started to play up a bit (arbitrarily causing loss of connectivity), so this weekend I finally got around to replacing it. Mrs Elbeno was complaining of having to power cycle it 2 or 3 times a day. Where wireless broadband routers are concerned, experience has taught&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}