802.11g signal strength; gigE

[mailings02 at ttlexceeded.com (Bob George)]

Rich Braun wrote:

>  [...] One feature still missing in the new WRT54G code is port-number
>  translation: if you want sshd to listen on port 54623 instead of
>  port 22, you can't do the mapping at the WRT54G firewall--you have to
>  reconfigure your Linux box.)

Using either the Sveasoft or OpenWRT enhanced builds, you can run full 
iptables scripts on the Linksys WRT-54G series, so that's certainly 
doable. Neither lets you do it from a nice web gui though, so you'll 
need to shell in to the unit and update the appropriate init scripts. 
Other features:
* cron
* dhcpd
* dnsmasq
* pptp server
* sshd

>  [...] Bottom line: if you have an old 802.11g unit whose signal is
>  weak, you will probably get a meaningful benefit replacing it with
>  any newer unit--you don't necessarily need to shell out the extra
>  bucks for one of those standards-noncompliant "RangeMax" units.

I'm not shelling out a nickle for ANY product until I know I can get a 
shell prompt on it!

- Bob