Netgear's open hardware router

By at 7:25 am Tuesday, Jul 1

Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our Rob takes notice of Netgear's new open WiFi routers, whose firmware and hardware are all modder friendly, designed to be improved by their owners to add new features.
Back in the day, Linksys slipped GPL software into its routers and was obliged to open-source the firmware as a consequence. The result was the much-loved, much-hacked WRT series, into which was added all sorts of fancy features usually reserved for business-class machinery. Netgear's getting in on this enthusiast-friendly game with the WGR614L, which is designed to be to tinkered with from the rubber feet-up.
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