Installing DD-WRT on the Linksys EA2700
So I had this router for quite a while. I bought the EA2700 when I moved to the US, without doing much research. That was a mistake. I had a bunch of the famous WRT54GL routers before and was super happy with them, mainly due to the flexibility of installing an alternative OS on it, which unleashes a lot more power and functionality. However, the WRT54GL was just too dated in 2012, so I decided to get a newer model and got the Linksys Cisco EA2700. I don't want to go into too many details, but this was a pretty bad decision. The software is just really bad. Almost no functionality and on top they tried to put some 'cloud-connection' stuff that is not only unnecessary, but counter productive. They tried to market it as a "Smart Router". A bit later I bought myself a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND and have been using it ever since. However, today I found the (now old) EA2700 in a moving box. This inspired me to check the interwebs for the current status of DD...