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I recently acquired one of these (it is the kind you can load custom firmware) and was trying to decide which firmware to put on it. I looked at Tomato and DD-WRT. Does anyone have a suggestion as to which one is the best? A friend of mine swears by Tomato.

i was looking into this myself this week. i was talking with a guy at my LUG last weekend. he said i may have been able to have the two antenna's on different channels. (to dedicate a different channel/antenna to two WIFI PC's in the house. possibly it would increase the throughput when sending data between them. instead of "clogging one pipe". thats the theory anyway.)

but, after research, seems i can't run any of the open firmwares on my WRT54GS "v7". so, look at your exact model number and version first to see if they even support it. you don't want to end up with a brick.

Yeah, mine is WRT54g v3, which does support open firmwares. I just can't decide on which firmware to use.

The wrt54g is slower than some of the other routers on the market now. I ran tomato and dd-wrt on the wrt54gl and ended up with dd-wrt. Tomato was problematic. I have not looked at tomato lately though,

Hope that helps...

I second the suggestion on DD-WRT I put it on an old Motrorola router and it hasn't gone down once in the past year. Rock solid and I even overclocked it a bit and boosted the signal.

eddie wrote:The wrt54g is slower than some of the other routers on the market now. I ran tomato and dd-wrt on the wrt54gl and ended up with dd-wrt. Tomato was problematic. I have not looked at tomato lately though,

Hope that helps...

I've been running Tomato for a couple of years now and it's been fine. No weirdness that I am aware of.

Tomato ran fine on my old buffalo router. Tomato does not support as many routers as dd-wrt does. I still want to try openwrt a bit more though. I have it running on a p2.

Well, after much deliberation, I finally landed on Tomato. It works great! It is very lean and fast plus it is feature rich. Thanks everyone for replying.