Awesome tiny wireless router/embedded linux platform

[Aaron VerDow]

I ordered three TP-Link WR703n's planning to use them as access points only to discover what great hacking platforms they are.  The WR703n is a small chinese wireless router that's supposed to use 3G usb dongles but with OpenWRT it becomes an embedded linux platform in a tiny package with wired and wireless connectivity and a USB port for peripherals.  With a little more hacking it's possible to add a serial port, some gpio pins, and bigger antennas.  I haven't had them for very long so I can't speak to their reliability, but so far they work great and I plan on ordering more for future projects.

If anybody is interested in some of these let me know, I'd like to get a big order together and possibly buy some for the parts store.  If you want one please vote "I'd like one now" or "I might use one from the parts store"

This Instructables has a lot of different hacks for it jammed together in one collage:

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-set-up-OpenWRT-on-a-pocket-router-WR703N/

[Deven Phillips]

I might be wanting a few of them for a project that I am working on. How much do they cost.

Deven

[Aaron VerDow]

They're about $25 for individual purchases but with a larger order there'd be a slight discount.

[Matthew Lichtenberger]

I got a similar model, the TL-MR3020. Came up a while ago in building a PirateBox (free wireless that provides a file share off attached USB, basically). Wanted to hack around with the thing, tried to get Jasager running on it, or the aircrack suite, but no dice. I'd be interested to hearing what ya end up doing with it, may be able to replicate it over to this device as well. Best of luck!