>>I have been having some problems over the past few weeks with my Linksys WRT54G router. Basically what was happening is that when I was using a BitTorrent client, I would lose network connectivity with other clients on my home network. I did some research and apparently it is a bug with the older versions of that model of router... something with the log filling up because of all of the connections that BitTorrent was opening and closing. I found that when I powered down my router and brought it back up it would fix the problem.
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>>I finally got sick of it, and I found this open-source router firmware called Tomato. I loaded it onto my router and it has never run so fast and smoothly. I am getting almost double the BitTorrent speed I got before and not network connectivity problems.
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>>Does anybody have any experience, bad or good, with Tomato?
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>Hadn't heard of it until your message ;) I've had good luck with several clients running dd-WRT stable.
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>Just a note for lurkers: if you're contemplating buying one of these routers, spend the extra $10 or so and get the WRT-54GL, which has more RAM which in turn gives you lots more options for more capable replacement firmwares.

It was between Tomato and dd-WRT for me. The only reason I picked Tomato is because I found a forum posting by somebody as clueless as me, and he was directed to use Tomato and it fixed his problem.

Good advice about the WRT-54GL. I read somewhere that model was a nod at the open-source firmwares, as Linksys made it tougher with it later versions of WRT-54G.

Anyway, neat firmware. I am still incredibly impressed by it. I have my BitTorrent going full speed and have no network connectivity problems at all. I don't even notice a speed difference in the Internet. I even played World of Warcraft last night during torrenting, which has proven not a good idea in the past.