Soup and Cables

Stopped for soup on the way home from work..   Always a treat.  Just
so happens the local 'cable store'  (aka Goodwill) is across the
parking lot from the café.   So what the heck - pickin's have been
slim but there might be a WRT54G or something that would work as a
high speed AP.  Or maybe even a Cat 5E jumper.

I was getting bummed when there was Nada for routers.   Nothing.  Not
even those old BEFWRxyz123's...     Had GW gone out of the 'cable
business?'   Can't be.

Ah - relief...   There on the side shelf behind the rack of cables (no
5E's - darn) was the typical shelf of routers.    No 'blue box'
WRT54G's but better yet - had to check the fine print twice but it was
right - a good as new box with all the original parts and pieces and
packing - a DIR-825.  One of the best 'meshable' routes there is.
Luck held and the revision on the box was B1.   A and C aren't OpenWRT
friendly but B1 and B2 are...

Bottom line - keep checking for those cables...

73
Bill, WA7NWP