Not sure about the G, but my WRT54GL was strictly 10/100. I loved that thing to death, but I outgrew its badwidth the moment I was able to get rid of my ADSL connection. Not that wireless clients had too much chance to max out the 25 Mbps ADSL using 802.11g, but I didn't care about wifi that much.
Got an old Fujitsu Futro S920 for basically free, threw in some cheap, 2 port Intel NIC, installed OPNsense and called it a day. Switching is done by 2 (also cheap) TP-Link managed switches and I have a UniFi AC-PRO for my wireless needs.
Gives me enough flexibility to have a few VLANs, while not breaking the bank either. 1 Gbps is enough for me now - maybe I'll upgrade some stuff in the future if I'll have actual demand for it.
I actually retired a WRT54GL running DDWRT that was in my parents cabin last year!
Still worked great, only had 30mbps WISP ptp wan so no huge need to upgrade.
I still have it. It's sitting in a box at the cabin, I couldn't bear to send it to the dump
Wrt54GL (takes the expanded version of dd-wrt with more features)
After that it’s the cellspot from t-mobile, which is a rebranded rt-ac68u. Hacking this to the Merlin firmware made it rock solid. You could also pick these up for stupid cheap
WRT54G/GL running DD-WRT. Started buying them in 2004? 2005? and installed them in all of my family's houses and had them VPN back to a server at my house. Ran perfectly before I replaced them with Ubiquiti gear about 10 years ago. Sure, by that time they were getting a bit long in the tooth, but they still ran and ran well.
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