DD-WRT for those with flaky routers

[steve]

Originally Posted by Vexira

They put less memory in them (if my memory serves me correctly) because of dd-wrt and tomato.

Yeah. I'm not sure if there's any truth to the matter, but... When Cisco bought Linksys, this is when they started releasing models with less memory. Some suggested that Linksys was cutting into Cisco's higher end router sales. By decreasing the available ram on the Linksys routers, opensource firmware had to trim features, thus adding value back to the higher end routers.

Of course there was outrage, so Cisco now makes another Linksys router with more memory (search Amazon for 'Linksys-Cisco WRT54GL Wireless-G Broadband Router (Compatible with Linux)'). But you're going to pay a bit more for it vs the routers with less memory.