>>>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.
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>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.
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>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.

There's a good Wikipedia page outlining the various models: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrt54g

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>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.

It's very impressive what hackers (in the true and honourable sense of the word) have been able to do with this and other consumer devices. Another interesting project is http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/FAQ/WhatIsANSLU2