Last week I replaced my PC router (133MHz, 32MB RAM, 0,9 GB HD) with a Linksys WRT54GL hardware router. The old Slackware box had done a great job for several years now but the time had come to exchange the old machine with a new one. The router's hard disk had a lot of bad blocks the last weeks wherefore I believed that the hard disk's end was near. So I had the choice between using another PC or buying a hardware router.. I decided to purchase a hardware box because I need all my computers for other tasks and this time I wanted to have a soundless router (the old PC was very quiet but not soundless) which does not need a lot of power.
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