WRT54GS Wireless-G Broadband Router with SpeedBooster

Putting Tomato on it was what got me to keep the beast around longer.

...and tomato fw. I used to have stack of them at home, I ran them at work, I still have a few in storage. I believe mine were mostly 54GSv3?

nah some can be real good. trust me ur WRT54GS cant handle multiple phones PCs and other devices without dropping packets here and there, but lots of people are OK with that

>"*They look a lot cooler now than back in the day.*" Some of us actually like the look of the o.g. Linksys WRT54G from 20 years ago. https://preview.redd.it/od03mx6a99ff1.jpeg?width=2800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4d1b717e3a99e538c70937c34673fbb5944e229

Same. I had updated the firmware to one of the open source ones and it just keep running. It wasn't until I got "too many" newer devices in the house that overloaded it (random devices would drop off with no warning) that I needed to replace it. I relaxed it with a beefy ASUS, but that thing died after like 18 months. Since then, I use access points and pass everything through an actual firewall... No more consumer grade "routers" for me.