This is one of the reasons why you should always use open source firmware on your router.
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They are predicting the pixel layout of the user's screen, prerendering the passwords, and then transmitting them as images?!
That's commitment to crisp text rendering!
Nobody serious uses Linksys for anything.
If you are, you need to consider moving to a proper brand
DD-WRT was practically born from Linksys routers, btw.
If you are actually "serious", you would be building your own access points and not focused on brands.
The only professional use of ddwrt I've seen is Macca's guest access.... It's an awesome project.. but...
If you're serious, you actually use enterprise grade products with guaranteed support. You don't build your own APs. Literally, no company I know does that 😂 .
Perfect example of why oss doesn't guarantee anything, is devFS which was a core component of Linux was depreciated before a replacement even existed. There were no maintainers despite it being critical to Linux
There are major core Linux projects which are being maintained by only 1 or 2 people.
Parts of xorg also only have 1 or 2 people in the world who understand the code apparently.
I've never seen Linksys installed at any high density jobs . And I don't think I will.
They've been sold to 3 different companies in 20 years. It's generally not a good indicator if network companies are happy to sell their child companies to competitors lol
But yes, the wrt54g 20+ years ago was a stroke of genius. It wasn't the best router available, but it definitely changed the hobbyist market