wrt54g.

edit: I have been educatematized, and apparently I meant wrt54gl.

I'm running Tomato on one of these and it works flawlessly.

I've been perfectly happy with my D-Link DGL-4300.

Thanks fellows. I went with the WRT54GL because it's my sister's money and I've had good luck with my own Linksys router.

No way unless it's V4 or lower which aren't made anymore. I install 20 of these a week and anything above a V5 is junk. You also can't patch in your own firmware with those as anything above V4 no longer runs Linux. You'll need the WRT54GL for that (if you can find one.)

There's no best when dealing with Broadcom, only that which sucks the least. The number of headaches and compatibility issues with routers and card based on Broadcom chips makes me want to torch their factory.

The best consumer wireless router ever made is still the DGL-4300 by D-Link. Very powerful, incredible array of configuration options with a graet GUI, one of the best QoS systems in a consumer router, gigabit ports and you can beat the crap out of it and it won't flinch. The only problem is it costs about 3 times as much as a more standard line router.

The G version still exists. Its OS is based on VxWorks and the GL is the Linux based OS. The wiki on the wrt54g is very good for all this info.

Yeah mine are all older, have 16mb RAM, and do great with DD-WRT....thus the post directly above yours.

Don't use Sveasoft. That guy's a prick... a GPL violator who made false accusations of hacking to get his detractors knocked offline. He actually issued a DMCA takedown notice on GPL code. He bans people who criticize him; he even bans people who have memberships on other forums he dislikes. His assholery is nearly unlimited. You don't, of course, see much about this on his forums, because he ruthlessly prunes and removes all such info.

Nothing wrong with DD-WRT that I know of, although I read somewhere that they're charging for more advanced features now, which sucks. I gave them money at least once, and maybe twice, entirely voluntarily... which makes me a bit of a chump, since I'd have gotten more by waiting.

I did have some issues recently with the Intel Centrino driver updates; they just wouldn't talk to my AP anymore. I had to update to the most recent beta to get them back online. Not sure if it's Broadcom, Intel, or the DD-WRT people at fault, but at least the firmware guys figured it out and fixed it.

Yes indeed. I had this issue with my Intel 3945ABG on my Dell Inspiron 9300. Which chip specifically are you running? Centrino is just a branding that can mean a number of different adapters.

The Intel ones Dell uses are weird. When my laptop is on, the wireless activity light on my router constantly flashes, even if the laptop is not downloading anything and it's only the wireless light, not my external connection light. My girlfriend's old eMachines laptop with the same adapter doesn't do it. And mine does it whenever the system is on, OS loaded or not. There's some sort of little modification Dell does to their cards that makes them operate differently than other ones based on the same chip.

I have to say, Verizon dumped an Actiontec MI424WR in my lap and I love it. Tons of features, can use open source upgrades and rock solid so far.

I just got a WHR-G125 and put DD-WRT "mini" on it, so far so good.

Same, its the best router I've ever had and worked with- and thats saying a lot. I never get lag anymore. EVER. And my torrents are FANTASTIC. I can download torrents and play Xbox Live..

I'm looking to replace my wonky Linksys WRT54G with a Buffalo WHR-G125 based on the recommendations in this thread, but I've found that most online retail sites don't have it in stock. Has it been replaced with a newer model? Any ideas on where can I get it (or its successor) for a decent price?

This isn't worth a thread of its own, but let's laugh at a stupid thing I did today...

Actually, it's a stupid thing that I did a while ago, that I just noticed today. I had set up QoS on my DD-WRT router some time ago. Today I was trying to troubleshoot its performance (Bittorrent traffic was supposed to be lowest priority, but other things were still choking with BT running), and I loaded up my QoS panel in DD-WRT and noticed something...

I had inverted the settings for Downstream and Upstream bandwidth. On a 10MB down/1MB up cable connection..... yeah....

That would explain the crappy performance! The instant that I switched them and hit Apply, the streaming radio feed I was listening to stopped pausing and ran like a champ.

In my defense, the screen lists the input box for upstream first, and downstream second. Everyone knows that you list downstream first!