Originally posted by: Odeen
Plus, I, personally, don't want to support the Linksys practice of neutering their mainstream product (going from rock-solid WRT54G V4 to the crash-happy V5) and then bringing the old mainstream product back as a premium unit (WRT54GL is simply the WRT54G V4). Disingenuous.
There is another way to look at it - Everyone over the years has further integrated their product offerings and attempted to cut unnecessary costs whenever possible. This is what Linksys did with V5, same as everyone else was doing. Only difference is their V5 didn't turn out so good (but same can be said about other manufacturers' products too, from time to time).
So Linksys had already abandoned the more costly old design like (practically) everybody else, and by the same token, would debug their current version to get it working better rather than go backwards in technology to a larger footprint OS requiring more hardware to get the same job done. When it comes to a mission specific embedded device, the V5 should have been superior, just not tailored to what we would want to do, modify an open source OS.
So Linksys could have done like everybody else and just closed the door to modders, but instead recognized the interest, and rather than take extra measures to try to prevent it, offered a supportive product that reflects the higher cost of the hardware and the lower volume sales.
I only wish other manufacturers were as accomodating, the only fault I find with Linksys is they should've stuck with V4 until they'd fully debugged V5, not releasing it before it's ready.
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