I really do not like this product. I'm sorry to be so blunt, it's just that I've had problem after problem with it, and this seems to continue incessantly. First of all I had trouble connecting it to my ADSL line (I'm no newbie), and then once I'd finally managed to get it running, it disconnected at random - the period of time between disconnections ranged from a few minutes to about 2 days. This was very annoying, as when it disconnected I had to access the router remotely and manually reconnect (even though I had the 'Keep Alive' setting turned on, that usually failed to work).

I also had problems with the WiFi - some of my boxes could 'see' the router, while others couldn't. It would take me a minimum of 1 hour to fix that box and _finally_ get it on the network - only to find that the internet didn't work. After another hour slaving away at the keyboard, I would finally get it to work.

Then, when I tried setting up some repeaters (Linksys WRE54G's) with it, they wouldn't work! I applied the WDS (setting the MAC address correctly), but then I had 2 problems while trying to configure the repeaters from my M$ box (in the Setup app):

1) My network was encrypted with WPA, and the Setup was not compatible with this encryption type. Great. I was forced to change my network to 128-bit WEP encryption (which I wasn't at all pleased about).

2) I then tried setting it up. Good, the Setup app was able to connect to my router. The next problem, you ask? The app was unable to find the repeater, which happened to be about 2 feet away from it!

I am thouroughly unimpressed with the Linksys products I have bought (even the Linksys WPC54G PCMCIA cards), and I feel sorry for the poor chap who buys them on eBay. :)


Ps. It's not that it isn't compatible with Linux - it's just a right pain to administrate. ;)

I'm not sure the model number is right here. I have a WRT54G ver 1.1 and it does NOT have a built in ADSL modem...

As for the WRT54G, I love it. It's built off of open source firmware, so I was able to load Sveasoft Alchemy firmware. This other firmware greatly increases the functionality of the router. I am able to ssh into the router and upload a personalized firewall I built w/ fwbuilder. I also increased my network strength 10x to 250mW from 25mW defaulted by Linksys.

All in all, a great product.

wrt54g tm running dd-wrt mega works great.

Began to get a lot of lost connections with my Netgear DG834G, so I bought a Linksys WRT54GL, and installed Tomato 1.28 on it (using the Netgear in modem only mode). Much better all round.