Finally took the plunge and got myself a WRT54GS v4 yesterday. Purposely went up to KL from Malacca for a one-day-trip. Reached Lowyat on 12pm and hunted up and down for GL/GS. Sigh, no sign at all. 3rd floor only sells GS v5 and no sign of GL.

Went to the 4th floor and suprisingly TechDos is selling GS v4 with the label RM290. 3rd floor is selling GS v5 for RM250 only! But then after bargain the salesperson quoted me RM275. Still unwilling to get from him though... Went to Linksys counter and geez! They quoted me RM330 for GS v4! Damn, its so freaking expensive!

Ended up going back to TechDos and tried bargained with another salesperson, and he gave me RM260! Hehe, took it immediately and double checked the serial to confirm its a v4. Next is to hunt for Linksys usb adapter with speedbooster; and i got mine from 4th floor for RM220. At first i wanna get GL from Richx's bulk order which will cost me less than RM400 in total, but ended up leaving Lowyat with RM480 worth of goods.

Went home and immediately flashed it to DD-WRT v23 (not SP1), so frankly i didn't manage to test out the original firmware. There's a line of steps that is bolded and in RED color from the firmware upgrade instructions - WAIT FOR AROUND 5 MINUTES. Hands too itchy and i just click on "continue" without waiting...

Heck, i was diverted back to the firmware page, but without any nice GUI. Freaked me out man! I thought i did something wrong with the router!! Off the power switch and on it back... finally got the familiar black GUI ! Yippie, success!

My GS is placed upstairs with both antenna parallel with the floor whereas my computer is downstairs, seperated by just a wall (ceiling to be more exact). Got 54MBps and excellent signal. I tried closing my room door (which adds another "wall" to the amount of barriers between the router and my PC), and i got good signal @ 36MBps. Left my PC on whole night running BT and manage to download 1.3GB last night, average download speed is 55kbps.

Overall very satisfied with its performance!

edit: Forgot to add, WRT54GL is on sale in Lowyat 4th floor. Price is a shocking RM270 each. Here's some of my findings (14th July 2006):
- WRT54G v5 (no more older versions), didn't check out the price
- WRT54GS v5 (RM250 lowest i think, haven't bargain)
- WRT54GS v4 (RM260 lowest from TechDos but i'd grabbed the last unit, RM330 from Linksys booth)
- WRT54GL (RM270, only available at 4th floor)
- WMP54GS (PCI adapter with Speedbooster, RM170 from TechDos)
- WUSB54GS (USB adapter with Speedbooster, RM220 from 4th floor)

This post has been edited by yrh0413: Jul 15 2006, 09:39 AM

anyone mind telling me the improvements of Speedbooster? I still get 54MBps max leh

http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/ddwrt.phpIts under the Wireless category - Clients.

your GUI is same as the one in the link above? In the System Information page, under Wireless Client. The sample pic in the link shows no wireless client available, but there's a SNR category. I'm in my office now so can't post any screenie for you.

p/s: PPPoE? I thought all routers have this? If not how did you set your Streamyx username and password for your Linksys router?

This post has been edited by yrh0413: Jul 17 2006, 03:53 PM

where you got your v1.1? Bought few years back izzit?

afaik speedbooster only increase the data transmission rate between LAN and WLAN, nothing to do with expanding the coverage and stability lo.

Ahh... richx... i got fed up with the waiting

what Linksys router you're using? I'm on 512kbps streamyx package and getting 55~60kbps Try port forwarding those BT ports.

RM270 for the GL is indeed expensive, more so for the RM330 GS. But then if you want to install mini/standard version of DD-WRT you have no choice lo. The WRT54G is selling for RM220 at Lowyat, but all are v5.

If you want to play with DD-WRT, better get a GL from richx at Bulk Order section.

DD-WRT micro version, can't install others due to the VxWorks limitation and also the puny 2MB memory

i'm facing yahoo messenger kept disconnecting problem after i changed my TCP and UDP timeout to 90

anyone using speedbooster WRT54GS? I'm wondering if i replace my existing USB Speedbooster wifi adapter with others (probably G+ adapters), do i still get a speedboost? Afterall its just Afterburner technology right?

guess what, i pair my GS with tmnet's free modem leh, and its still rock stable