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[DarkShadow]

So i stumbled onto this one article after talking with kidcapri on vent and I found some interesting features to this specific firmware they produce as sveasoft at this link it provides a 900% increase in Wireless signal along with hundreds of features that the stock linksys firmware doesnt do.

Needless to say I was kinda touchy with paying for firmware, but Linksys gave me the run around and basically told me everything I told them at the beginning of the *live chat* session we had on Linksys's site, In short, I literally told the guy to go f*ck himself properly until he regained his brains higher functionality.

I was totally pissed and bought the Firmware, its sexy, Im diggin it, I love the way the Port forwarding works, 100% kickass that u can add as many as you want, unlike standard linksys which limits it to 15 at most?

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[kidcapri]

Nice.

You couldn't find the firmware on like a warez site or something though?

[DarkShadow]

I could have, doubt it would be for that f*cking 2.1 version tho, not even linksys support it.

[Chris82]

Awesome! That's my wireless router. Let's see how it works...

[kidcapri]

I was talking about the custom firmware. You can download it for free from there site. But you bought some sh*t that gives you tech support and some other sh*t too.

[DarkShadow]

no, their freeware sh*t is just the source code if im correct, but it didnt support my router version if im not mistaken, but w/e support is good if sh*t breaks.

[The Drizzle]

That firmware probably also supports WDS, so you can bridge 2 wireless networks together using just 2 linksys routers, rather than buying other devices that arent as good. Thats good stuff. Also, www.i-hacked.com is a great site, the guy that runs it is pretty cool.

[kidcapri]

I think the tech support makes it that much better anyways. That and you can f*cking still get signal a f*cking mile down the road. LOL. f*cking awesome, if you can still find a linksys router that runs a linux variation.

[DarkShadow]

this HAS a linksys variation in the firmware I am 100% certain.

The folder Structure is accessible via tftp, that and when I login, it says the login path is /var/www, if that isnt linux, then I'm the pope.

[kidcapri]

Yeah thats whats so awesome about the one you have. Where the hell did you get it? I looked around forever for the certain linux versions. The only ones I could find were online and they were asking like double the price for them. Now linksys uses some other sh*tty operating system.

[DarkShadow]

linksys f*cking blows now, from now On, I'm probably going with a D-Link setup or something, because at least their sh*t is functional in a good way.

meh, I want a Switch, router = t3h failure.

[monster]

meh, I want a Switch, router = t3h failure.

lol. Your linksys "router" is really a router, wireless access point, and switch.


The router routes your WAN traffic thoughout your LAN, the switch is what connects your wired ethernet LAN.


If you get a standalone switch, then you have to do the routing somewhere.... like on your pc, but that's not practical, unless you only have one computer connected to your modem... and in that case you don't need a switch to begin with.


And routers in themselves don't = teh failure, you just have a sh*tty one.

[DarkShadow]

Lol f*ck you *canaduhhhh*.

for real, f*ck you, but honestly, a Switch is similar to a router, but minus all that bullsh*t security, but this one is a !@#$%^& to configure.

hey that rhymes...

really tho, I just don't know why the f*ck its blocking some things, such as netmeeting calls, I can't send them at all atm, and am kinda curious as to why, considering I disabled the Firewall, allowed Ident Ports, and whatever else... hopefully I can find a workaround to issues like that, and one other tiny problem I found is that when I try to access it via wireless, it dropped my desktop offline till the laptop was off, I guess because an IP conflict or something though because I noticed it assigned it to 192.168.1.4 which is f*cked because it was supposed to start at 10 and go up... guess not.

heh, aside from those few issues, everything is smooth and I can run everything normally.

[monster]

Lol f*ck you *canaduhhhh*.

for real, f*ck you, but honestly, a Switch is similar to a router, but minus all that bullsh*t security, but this one is a !@#$%^& to configure.

hey that rhymes...

really tho, I just don't know why the f*ck its blocking some things, such as netmeeting calls, I can't send them at all atm, and am kinda curious as to why, considering I disabled the Firewall, allowed Ident Ports, and whatever else... hopefully I can find a workaround to issues like that, and one other tiny problem I found is that when I try to access it via wireless, it dropped my desktop offline till the laptop was off, I guess because an IP conflict or something though because I noticed it assigned it to 192.168.1.4 which is f*cked because it was supposed to start at 10 and go up... guess not.

heh, aside from those few issues, everything is smooth and I can run everything normally.

You can assign static IP's to specific mac addresses, which will keep those f*ckers in line. You should also be able to turn off NAT and SPI. For the blocked ports, just open them up and direct them to your local IP. Netmeeting acts like a server, so the router might not upload properly without the port being pryed open.

Or like you said before, get a dlink.


EDIT: A router connects peripherals on two IP subnets, like your WAN and your LAN. A switch connects peripherals on the same subnet (like multiple machines on your LAN). If you want to connect to the internet with more than one computer, you need a router of some kind... a switch doesn't do routing.

Edited by monster, 04 December 2006 - 12:30 PM.

[Sniprwulf]

If you want to connect to the internet with more than one computer, you need a router of some kind... a switch doesn't do routing.

Idk, I had a switch hooked up via ethernet from my router and had connected my xbox360 and my computer and both use internet.

[monster]

Idk, I had a switch hooked up via ethernet from my router and had connected my xbox360 and my computer and both use internet.

Exactly, you connected your switch to your router... lol


You can daisy chain anything you want (hub, switch, router, etc), all I'm saying is that you need some type of routing if you want to share your WAN on your LAN.

[The Drizzle]

Yep. You have to have a router on the network in order to share the internet connection. A switch is similar to a router, but the router will connect a big network(i.e. the internet) to a small network(i.e. your home lan). A switch only connects devices on a LAN.

[Novahawk]

Yeah like all of the computers at my house are in one room, so i got a wired gigabit network... All of the computers are connected to the switch so the network is gigabit, and the switch is connected to the router which is connected to the modem..