DD-WRT: Bring Out The Best Of Your WiFi Router

By using an open source replacement firmware you can turn your $60 Linksys WRT54G into a feature rich router that would easily be worth over $600. All with variants of the OpenWRT firmware.

The DD-WRT firmware is a third party developed firmware released under the terms of the GPL for many 802.11g wireless routers based on the Broadcom chipset. No special hacking is needed. If your supported device is listed then you can simply download the firmware for your router and by using the web based upgrade feature found on every router you can flash it to accept the new feature rich dd-wrt firmware.

The list of feature os too long to mention, but for a quick tease you will have VLAN, VPN Server, and QOS available to you, just to name a few.

If you are looking to really bring out the best in your WiFi router or if you are like me and like to tweak ever possible setting then the dd-wrt firmware is for you. You can check their page for a complete list of supported hardware

[Link to DD-WRT]

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