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Great router for custom Linux solutions

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2007

This router can be re-flashed with a custom Linux firmware (such as openwrt or dd-wrt) to become a custom Linux device. With the addition in this model of a USB 2.0 port, the possibilities for such a device are greatly expanded. It could easily become a wireless music player, print server, camera server, peripheral sharing device, etc. It also makes a nice firewall/router. This model has increased CPU speed and main memory over the original WRT54G device. The radio in this device, like the other WRT54 routers, is very stong, delivering good coverage for both 802.11b and 802.11g.

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Krystmas

never EVER works

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2007

The wireless setup on this device is like setting up a 8-cylinder car with no tools and blindfolded as a first-time user. All of the other features are clear and to the point. They have great documentation. Phone support seems really sure that the problem is going to start with your computer. Even if you have multiple computers, with multiple operating systems and different hardware. Once they do take you through 3hrs of tech support, they replace it with a refurb that also doesn't work. I went through three of these and was never able to get my wireless to work on a Toshiba laptop, mac mini, powerbook, dell desktop with wireless PCI card, nor iMac G3 with an airport card.

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Benjamin McGough

Great router for custom Linux solutions

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2007

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Krystmas

never EVER works

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2007

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Joseph Doratan

problem with sharing files over internet

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2006

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As of this writing, the feature as advertised in the box is simply not available. Perhaps one would be able to share files over the internet in the next firmware upgrade.

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A. Milne

Best left to the nerds

Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2006

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I read all the reviews/hype on this router and thought, "ya its for me", but its really not worth the trouble for most folks in my opinion. If you are brave enough to get into the tweeks then go for it, I'm sure its as great as folks say. It found my attached USB drive initially but then things started to get confusing after that. I returned it and picked up another Dlink router (DI-724) and I'll wait to buy another solution to create a networked shared drive.

The wireless signal on this thing did seem to work extremely well for what its worth.

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Samat Jain

Great Linux-powered router with USB storage

Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2006

As soon as I received my Linksys WRTSL54GS, I flashed it with the OpenWRT firmware... and my device works great. It's been running for 3 wks now since I've bought it, with no problems. I did not attempt to use Linksys' OEM firmware, which other reviewers have noted is not very good.

I am irked that it is much more expensive than the Linksys WRT54GL, but the extra RAM, flash memory (useful for OpenWRT), and USB port were worth it for me. You're not going to break any speed records with the device's 266 MHz processor, but the ability to access disks over a network without the need of another full-blown computer is extremely convenient.

It has only one antenna, but most real-world tests show that two antennas are not necessarily better, The antenna is unfortunately non-removable, unlike the WRT54GL, so you cannot easily replace it with another.

All in all a great, more versatile WRT54GL alternative.

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The 3rd8

Definitely the most versatile router I had so far

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2008

Verified Purchase

I bought 2 units and I installed one of them away from the house in the garage and I use it as on "offsite backup device" with an 8 GB flash USB disk connected to it. I upgraded the firmware to Thibor v 17c, increased the power to 100% and it works like a charm.

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Korchaguin Jimenez

Beware of AMAZON descriptions

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2006

Verified Purchase

AMAZON's product description states that "You can make your files available publicly over the Internet or create password-protected accounts for authorized users"; this was my main reason for buying the router, however, this feature is not documented at all in the manual, and Linksys' tech support hasn't been able to tell me if the feature is supported or not.

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Ookami Yokai

great perf for the $

Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2007

Verified Purchase

Got two units for modetare load each, udated to open WRT (original firmware fails when emule and bittorrent run together on couple of computers but its expected), with new firmware holds the load, does proper firewalling and NAT.. Useful that is has 32Mbts of ram. also stable wireless transmit-receive :)/ Good buy for the $/

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Jose A. Marzan Sanchez

Linksys WRTSL54GS Wireless-G Media Storage Link Router with Speedbooster

Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2008

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Linksys Wireless-G Media Storage Link Router with SpeedBooster WRTSL54GS

Excellent product recominedo 100 % from Caracas - Venezuela.

Excelente producto lo recominedo 100% desde Caracas-Venezuela.

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California Papa

Not ready for prime time as a Storage Server too

Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2006

The documentation sucks and so does the tech support. I have wasted nearly 8 hours today trying to get this router to work with a Maxtor USB hard drive. 1st, this router will not allow you to use NTFS format so I had to reformat the hard drive to FAT32. Next, when you go to set up the storage unit and give it a work group name it does not accept names that Windows XP does for example our workgroup is Horton house. The Linksys unit will not accept the space between two words so I could not use the same workgroup name and either had to change every computer or let it be in a different workgroup. Next I spent an hour on hold and then was transferred to four people before they finally could connect me with a tech support person who was trained on this new unit. They confirmed my issues and said they will notify the group who will be putting out the next firmware update. The big issue I tried to resolve was getting the unit to not require a user ID and password to access the drive everytime you boot up a computer on the network. Unfortunately I learned that is the way the unit is designed so you can not map the location as a drive letter and have it always ready to use on a network computer. The 1st time you try to use each you are prompted for a user ID and password. This really finished it off since I could not understand the logic. I can map other computer hard drives for automatic use but not this one hooked up to the router. Then the final kicker I learned after my 2 hours on the phone with support. Every file that gets written on the hard drive had a created date of Dec. 31, 1979 and last accessed date of the same. I copied files to the drive and it would ignore their file creation and access dates and just write Dec. 31, 1979 for every file and folder copied on to the drive. Clearly this router is worthless as a attached storage device at this time and I will pass it on to some one else on Ebay and go back to the old router. No more wasting my time on a new product even if it sounded great. Don't waster your money. I have 20 years of PC experience and am an expert user.

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