Linksys WRT54G SPIDER Mods

[h2otek]

Higher gain antennas accomplish a great deal more than boosting power- which is illegal unless operating licensed under part 97 anyway. Regardless, deionized water won't generally damage electronics. Dust accumulation getting wet might, but you could /theoretically/ take a perfectly clean bucket of DI water and dunk the device to keep it cool. I don't accept responsibility for anyone trying this, however! (Have seen a switching power supply accidentally get hosed with R/O and be OK)

[JayzBeerz]

and the reason for this fiasco is what?

[ellectronico]

@JayzBeerz just for something to do

[juicysquidlad]

@Browns33ful Stay away from Linksys

They are too big to provide you with support down the road, when their crap dosen't work right...Customer Support in non-existent. Go with belkin or netgear for your router...wayyyyyyyyyyy more user friendly and reliable. TrendNet and Dlink are other companies which produce high end reliable hardware.....Good Luck!

[ellectronico]

@juicysquidlad I love Linksys. there are so many different firmware versions you can switch to. When your doing this kind of thing you are not likely the kind of person that would need to call customer support anyway.

[forid200]

very very very good mod

[ellectronico]

@forid200 Thanks. it was fun!

[mksmalls86]

So did you just add two more TNC connectors and then soldered them to the original TX RX points on the router's board? or did you do something else?

[ellectronico]

that's what i did. It did make a small difference, however the router is no more. i added a water cooling set up that ran great for about 5 months until it got a leak and fried:-( so now i am looking for a new project

[PGTrunner]

Nice spider idea. One suggestion, swap the fans around to where the intake is the bottom and the exhaust is the top. Remember, colder air sinks and hot air rises :) My fan setup is very similar to yours (except mine are as i described above). Transmitting at 251 mv (max) and the chips are cool as a cucumber! Airflow is top notch w/ my setup. Great job man

[ellectronico]

good idea. I might do that on my next project. this router got wet from a leaky watercooling setup(worked good for about 5 months) so i saved the case and other parts and tossed the rest out.

[PGTrunner]

Bummer about the water cooling accident. Good luck w/ the next one

[xxxPLAYGTA4xxx]

nice

[selfalready]

hey, do you know how to use jtag step by step, on a v6. make a video or something with visuals plz. cool video

[ellectronico]

sorry to take so long to get back to you on this. i haven't done any projects like this in awhile but i am sure you can find the instructions out there somewhere. good luck!

[spacesick36]

so what make it do run faster or cooler or just for lokks?

[ellectronico]

The firmware makes it run more power so the fans do help it keep cool. i have been running it now for over a year and its rock solid. The range is much better than stock.