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Hi Philippe -

> The WRT54GL's are available here (I'm in Canada), I'm sure it is also 
> available down in the US.
>
That's good to know.

> We like the Atheros hardware (fonera, meraki) because it's so small in 
> comparison (unless your WRT54GL's are the ones with smaller footprint 
> than the old big blue model?) and because it's less proprietary than 
> broadcom hardware/drivers...
It is small - ok. Things I like about WRT54GL: JTAG (even if you hose
the system completely including bootloader you can restore it), serial
interface, wide range DC-input (5-20 Volts), doesn't die if you reverse
polarity, low power consumption (3.6 Watts under full load). Up to 250mW
transmit power. Makes it ideal for my solar-powered home and developing
countries, outdoor nodes, disaster areas and so on. Open up the housing
and have a look at those *three* individual DC-DC converters for every
internal voltage.

Disclaimer: I am not working or getting paid by Linksys. I'm willing to
utilize everything good that comes the way...

Of course I don't like using proprietary code, this is sad. You know
Linksys/Cisco had to be forced to their own good. They must be selling
those devices like crazy. We have WRTs running on churches in a noisy
area with many competing networks,  each one linked to 15-20 other
single hop mesh nodes. Somewhere around 30 single hop neighbors there is
a limit for the driver/chipset, I suppose. The driver works rock solid.
As soon as Madwifi or ath5k (with OpenHAL) can compete with that I'll be
much more than happy.

If I could utter a wish to a fairy coming my way I would also ask to
have at least one good performing usb chipset for 802.11abgn that works
with Linux as well. I'd start assembling omnis and directionals with
usb-connector immediately ;-)

Cheers,

cu elektra