>> After a frustrating experience with a Linksys WRT54GL, I've decided to >> stick with Gentoo routers. > > Out of curiosity, could you tell us more about this experience?
Sure, I was using the stock firmware and I didn't like that you couldn't specify a source IP address when punching a hole in the firewall for a particular port, and I also couldn't coax "Remote Access" into working no matter what I tried. > The WRT54G(L) is quite dated, and the OpenWRT devs recommend against trying > to do anything fancy on it. I chose the WRT54GL because it has the best ratings on newegg.com. I looked into OpenWRT once but decided against it after I decided installation and possibly management was not nearly as trivial as I had imagined. > In another post you mentioned that you have a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND, which is a > bunch newer, I think, and should run OpenWRT quite well. I got rid of the TL-WR1043ND a while back because I couldn't get packet shaping to work with the stock firmware no matter how I tried. At this point I've sworn off mystery boxes. I even had a Dlink router die on me recently. If I'm not using mystery boxes for greater hardware reliability, why am I using them? Power consumption would be a good reason but it's not worth it IMO. - Grant
