DD-WRT

I reflashed my good old Linksys WRT54G router two weeks back, from using Sveasoft Talisman to DD-WRT. I must say, I’m happily amazed with the quality of this firmware. And, it’s for free too :D (you have to pay a 20$/year subscription fee for sveasoft to have access to their firmwares)

You’ll get tons of nice features like:

• 13 languages
• 802.1x (EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) encapsulation over LANs)
• Access Restrictions
• Adhoc Mode
• Afterburner
• Client Isolation Mode
• Client Mode (supports multiple connected clients)
• Client Mode WPA
• DHCP Forwarder (udhcp)
• DHCP Server (udhcp or Dnsmasq)
• DNS forwarder (Dnsmasq)
• DMZ
• Dynamic DNS (DynDNS, TZO, ZoneEdit)
• Hotspot Portal (Sputnik Agent ,Chillispot)
• IPv6 Support
• JFFS2
• MMC/SD Card Support
• NTP client in a client-server basis
• Port Triggering
• Port Forwarding (max. 30 entries)
• QoS Bandwidth Management (Optimize for Gaming and Services / Netmask / MAC / Ethernet Port Priority)
• QoS L7 Packet Classifier l7-filter)
• PPTP VPN Server & Client
• Ntop Remote Statistic
• Syslog to remote server
• RFlow/MACupd
• Routing: Static entries and Gateway, BGP, OSPF & RIP2 via (BIRD)
• Samba FS Automount
• Rx/Tx Antenna (Select or Auto)
• Show Status of Wireless Clients and WDS with System Uptime/Processor Utilization
• Site Survey
• SNMP
• SSH server & client (dropbear)
• Startup, Firewall, and Shutdown scripts (startup script)
• Static DHCP Assignment
• Style (Changeable GUI; v.23)
• Supports New Devices (WRT54G V3, V3.1, V4, V5 and WRT54GS V2.1, V3, V4)
• Telnet server & client
• Transmit Power Adjustment (0-251mW, default is 28mW, 100mW is safe)
• UPnP
• VLAN
• Wake On Lan client (WOL)
• WDS Connection Watchdog
• WDS Repeater Mode
• Wireless MAC Addresses Cloning
• Wireless MAC filter
• WMM (Wi-Fi MultiMedia QoS)
• WPA over WDS
• WPA/TKIP with AES
• WPA2
• Xbox Kaid (Kai Engine)

I can really recommend this firmware to any WRT54G user. Really :) It works great!