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I returned from a wonderful vacation in Florida to discover that my broadband cable service was no longer working. After some troubleshooting, replacing some coax lines and connectors, I ended up having to replace my Linksys cable modem/router combo unit. I ended up going with a D-Link DCM-202 cable modem and a Linksys WRTSL54GS, which is a router, firewall, 802.11g access point, 4-port switch, and even a USB port for external media storage. However, the best part about the WRTSL54GS is that it is supported by OpenWRT, a free software GNU/Linux distribution built to replace the standard Linksys firmware. Obviously, doing so will void your warranty. But in doing so, you will gain more functionality.

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How are you enjoying the OpenWRT experince?

I have been very impressed with the work that they have done with the White Russian releases. The flexibility that it provides opens up a lot of possibilities for experimentation, and I suspect that it will only get better as future versions come out (such as Kamikaze with the 2.6 kernel).