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by winelight
Fri Aug 10, 2012 12:18 pm
Forum: Wifi Radio Project / Hacking the Asus WL-520gU
Topic: More powerful router / BBC stations?
Replies: 5
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Re: More powerful router / BBC stations?

Thanks again. Yes the router questions are now irrelevant.
by winelight
Fri Aug 10, 2012 4:23 am
Forum: Wifi Radio Project / Hacking the Asus WL-520gU
Topic: More powerful router / BBC stations?
Replies: 5
Views: 15239

Re: More powerful router / BBC stations?

Ah - just seen your post in the other thread. A friend was showing me a Raspberry PI the other day.

That sounds like an easier way to go overall, really. Can't imagine finding a USB WiFi dongle with Linux support will be a problem. Thanks!
by winelight
Fri Aug 10, 2012 4:19 am
Forum: Wifi Radio Project / Hacking the Asus WL-520gU
Topic: More powerful router / BBC stations?
Replies: 5
Views: 15239

Re: More powerful router / BBC stations?

Ah right got it thanks. There are other models in the Asus 5xx range with double the Flash and RAM. Would they be big enough, do you know? Otherwise, presumably there is no inherent difficulty in using any OpenWRT-supported router as long as it has (or can be made to have) a serial port, and has a U...
by winelight
Thu Aug 09, 2012 1:55 pm
Forum: Wifi Radio Project / Hacking the Asus WL-520gU
Topic: More powerful router / BBC stations?
Replies: 5
Views: 15239

More powerful router / BBC stations?

I've read a number of messages here discussing the fact that you need WMA for the BBC streams, and I'm interested to know if anyone has actually done this? Or is using a more powerful router successfully for this project that would in theory be powerful enough for WMA? I'm wanting to build a WiFi ra...