Netgear launches WGR614L router

Networking hardware maker Netgear has announced their latest router model WGR614L.

Sources say that this router could be the first native open-source consumer router to be sold in the markets.

It is available in the US market for a retail price of $69.

Netgear has launched a related website for this router which is encouraging developers to code for it.

Netgear WGR614L comes with all the usual features for a router of this price range like 10/100 Fast Ethernet port, VPN passthrough, static and dynamic routing, NAT, PPTP, PPPoE, DHCP and BigPond.

They have also included a SPI firewall. It supports WPA, WPA2-PSK, and WPS in addition to up to 152-bit WEP encryption.

The company has equipped this router with 4 MB of flash memory and 16 MB of RAM. It supports Tomato and OpenWRT.

Checkout:
Netgear WGR614L
NETGEAR Open Source Router Community
Tomato
OpenWRT