Adieu, sveasoft
October 22nd, 2006 by keith
Well, I cancelled my subscription to sveasoft today. Sveasoft makes a replacement firmware for the Linux-based Linksys WRT54G-series wireless routers. There are some nice bells and whistles that Sveasoft adds, but to be honest I used very few of them and found the router to be less stable when running Sveasoft’s firmware. Their release cycle for new builds/functionality has also been extremely slow.
Last week I installed Talisman/Basic v1.2, and from then on my wireless link would drop after 5-10 minutes and required a reboot of the router to restore. All my settings were lost during the upgrade, even though I followed the official upgrade path.
I’ve downgraded back to Talisman/Basic v1.1 which has been pretty solid for me over the past year. I might change back to the Linksys stock firmware, since all I use from Talisman is QoS and sshd.
There are a number of free WRT firmware solutions out there that are much more mature now than they were when I first purchased ($20) the Sveasoft firmware a few years ago. See the Wikipedia entry for WRT54G for more details.
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