>> 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

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