WRT54GL arrived!

[MIR]

I took some great advice and ordered the WRT54GL. It is funny because i chose to have it shipped "8-15 business days" for free Friday May 18th. It was proccesed and shipped overnight on monday. Heh! I got free overnight shipping!

NEWBURY PARK,
CA, US 05/22/2007 12:51 P.M. DELIVERY 05/22/2007 5:32 A.M. OUT FOR DELIVERY 05/22/2007 4:54 A.M. DESTINATION SCAN 05/22/2007 4:42 A.M. ARRIVAL SCAN SYLMAR,
CA, US 05/22/2007 3:31 A.M. DEPARTURE SCAN 05/22/2007 12:37 A.M. ARRIVAL SCAN BALDWIN PARK,
CA, US 05/21/2007 11:44 P.M. DEPARTURE SCAN 05/21/2007 9:45 P.M. ORIGIN SCAN US 05/21/2007 6:21 A.M. BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED

Tracking results provided by UPS: 05/22/2007 5:24 P.M. EST (USA)

It seems it didn't have far to go to get to my home.

Now to set it up and get port forwarding and DMZ to work on it and my modem.

I would like to thank the people on kodewerx and GSHI in helping me choose the best router with their recomendations.

MIR

[Mike The Metalhead]

Oh it's a Router! I didn't know until the end. You're a good story-teller, I was holding my breath all that time.

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[Lazy Bastard]

Heh. I knew, but only because I'm a network administrator, and work with Cisco and LinkSys equipment on a regular basis

[MIR]

My download speeds before the router on Emule or Opera was around 15.5kbs. Now with the router it is around 2.2kbs.

There is something wrong with that. not to mention i am paying for DSL but that is a different story. I want my 13.3kbs back!

[bfoos]

Nice choice for a router. I got mine a few months ago. First thing I did when I got it was throw the CD that came with in the trash, and flash it with DD-WRT v.23 SP2. A few minutes of tweaking and I haven't had the need to touch it since.

[Lazy Bastard]

For bittorrent and peer-to-peer downloads from behind a router you may want to look up something called port forwarding.