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I just checked eBay for Netgear GS105. Found one for USD 9.99 with free shipping. Get one of those (or an equivalent from a different manufacturer), and your troubles are over. As to WRT54GL, it's been considered non-viable for OpenWrt since 2014: https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt54g#notes_on_specif
...NC1HM in r/openwrt
July 18, 2026 at 6:19 AM
8
Linksys WRT54G does everything and more. Netgate if they can't handle the power of the Linksys
eatingsolids in r/msp
June 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
18
You could get an older router with the protocols needed, connect it to the laptop, then connect it to your active router. Around me at least I always see cheap Linksys WRT54G's for example that would work.
RubiksCube9x9 in r/retrocomputing
March 21, 2026 at 2:54 PM
5
Linksys wrt54g until internet became too fast to utilize them.
Work-Play-Work in r/TechNook
July 30, 2026 at 2:55 PM
3
Itt tuti egy Cisco Linksys WRT54GL volt az ihlet a Routerhez
Effective-Value-6474 in r/programmingHungary
August 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
7
Linksys WRT54G. It's the Nokia 3310 reincarnated into a router. Simply refuses to die.
Digital_Voodoo in r/answers
March 23, 2026 at 12:37 AM
2
I've had good experiences with TP-LINK; 7 devices at a site going on five years, 6 of them outdoors, and no problems, except when I have to add a new device and I've forgotten how to use Omada. Pretty much every consumer TP-Link thing has multiple configuration options, so your router can be set up
...grislyfind in r/HomeNetworking
May 7, 2026 at 7:50 AM
2
Wrt54g when people demanded Linksys(cisco) release the firmware source code due to it being on the Linux kernel. So they released the firmware after being pressured and then a $50 router could have the same features as a $500 router. It now lives on with DDWRT and Openwrt if you have an old router t
...XchrisZ in r/techsupportgore
May 15, 2026 at 11:51 PM
2
I've had a few that stick out. Linksys WRT54G. Whatever Mikrotik model the WISP back home handed out. Netgear Nighthawk R7000. For me, all of these were absolute tanks. They just...didn't quit. I still have my Nighthawk because, you know, just in case.
House_Indoril426 in r/HomeNetworking
May 26, 2026 at 3:52 AM
2
I think it was my first router too👍. It was solid as a rock and the only time I had an issue was early on when an update broke it. Funny timing as I was at Walmart in Canada today and picked up a Linksys AX1800 basic WiFi 6 router on liquidation for $25. Probably about a 1/6th of what I paid in the
...PM013 in r/HomeNetworking
February 11, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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