Now, 11 years later, to keep up with the popularity of 802.11ac and 802.11n, Linksys has announced the WRT54G's spiritual successor: The WRT 1900AC.

Anyone have experience putting DD-WRT on this router? I want to use it as a wifi bridge, so that I can have it upstairs to patch an ethernet-only device into the home network. Was hoping this ...

What made the WRT54G what it is today was the open source aspect of its firmware and OpenWRT was a project that was based around hacking into the original WRT lineup to introduce more power and ...

Witness the Linksys WRT54GL, the famous wireless router that came out in 2005 and is still for sale. At first glance, there seems to be little reason to buy the WRT54GL in the year 2016.

Linksys has launched a new router in its WRT lineup beloved by WiFi tweaking aficionados. The WRT3200ACM has more bandwidth for its Tri-Band 802.11AC tech, amping the max speed to 2.6 Gbps, double ...

Linksys today announced at CES, that it is bringing back the heritage of the best-selling router of all time – the Linksys WRT54G but updated and mode ...

The Linksys WRT54G is probably the cheapest and most widely sold embedded Linux device in the world. It is also incredibly fun to play with. A lot of people don’t want to take the full… ...

Fifteen years ago, Linksys introduced a black-and-blue wireless router that became the first 802.11g draft product to hit the market. The WRT54G offered consumers reasonable performance ...

“The history of OpenWrt goes back more than a decade when it all began with a project to hack and modify the Linksys WRT54G. A lot has changed since then,” said Gregers Petersen, relationship ...

Remember Linksys' WRT family of routers? Based on the number of user reviews for the WRT54G alone, we think some of you do. For the uninitiated, however, the WRT line became something a cult ...

At $300, we can only assume that Linksys is trying to cash in on the prestige of the WRT54G. There are comparable 802.11ac/n routers, still with support for OpenWRT or DD-WRT, that can be had for ...

I’ll be walking you through installing the openWRT firmware onto a Linksys WRT54G. This is followed by setting the router up in client mode.