different kind of sniping

[z00t]

eBay. Bought a WRT54G3G-ST for a penny more than my adversary's threshold of pain. Winning bid submitted nine seconds before the end of the auction blues.

[Mr.BOoK]

Nice! Got to love the out bids on eBay! The WRT54G3G-ST is a wireless router?

[Ironface_NL]

This is what it is.http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper&cid=1160093298732 (http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper&cid=1160093298732)

I got this one lying on my desk, because i swithed ISP and have no use for it now http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_CASupport_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1166859890739&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper

[z00t]

With the factory firmware load, it's not a "real" router: can't disable NAT, therefore useless for business customers with routable address space behind the router. The DMZ functionality allows you to expose a single static IP address on the LAN side of the router, but I've got a whole class C hiding back there :D. Now, if you want to put all your Internet-accessible services on a single host (I don't), the DMZ functionality might suffice. I'm hoping (expecting that) OpenWRT can fix this issue, because Sprint is (or at least was) marketing the Linksys Mobile Broadband router as backup or *primary* connectivity for businesses that can live within the bandwidth constraints of EVDO rev. A, and other than having the pre-CIDR class C network to deal with, the product is a good match for my needs. Certainly beats the dog snot out of the IDSL connectivity I've currently got. Too far away from the telco central office for ADSL, and the wonderful folks at Time-Warner continue to be unwilling to announce a route for my network (yes, I was trying to purchase business class service, and to this day they *still* have no clue what that means).

T-1? Sure, I could do that... A little pricey, or I'd already have it ;). The Sprint option will run $59/month for the "all you can eat" plan, plus $3/month for the static IP assigned to the EVDO card. That's just a smidgen over half of what I'm currently having to pay for 144 kbs IDSL service :(.

[z00t]

Well, here's the update you were(n't) waiting for... The router arrived today via FedEx. Plugged it in, and.... *brick*. That's what I get for bidding on an "as-is" item that the vendor claimed he couldn't test :(. On the plus side, the router had enough sanity about it to allow uploading the latest firmware via "tftp". Once it was up and running, I reflashed the router through the web interface just to make #$%@! sure things were solid. Bottom line: I felt the breeze as the cannonball went whizzing overhead, but a miss is still a miss :). I'll finish testing the hardware with the factory firmware load before experimenting with OpenWRT, but I think the WRT54G3G-ST is going to be a keeper.