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i'm tired of my aging wrt54g dropping connections during heavy downloads, so i ordered a new router. the old router has been running dd-wrt (mini) for a while, so i'll probably stick with that on the new one. going with an asus rt-n16. the concensus seems to be very good and it can handle the full dd-wrt firmware.

i may give tomato a try as well. i'll have to check and see if my wrt54g (v8.0) can use that. i don't think the base tomato is compatible, but maybe one of the other variants?

All three of my old WRT54G's are rock solid running the latest DD-WRT firmware. They never drop connections, unlike with the factory firmware.

Might be a coverage issue. That's why I use three, and my house isn't all that big. You might want to keep that WRT54G running and just supplement it with the new one, trying to keep them on nearly opposite ends of the house or at least as far apart as possible.

If you configure them both with exactly the same SSID & encryption passphrase (but on different channels) then your wifi devices will just seamlessly switch from one to the other as needed.

Another thing that's worth doing it to occasionally scan for other nearby networks that might be on the same channel. Make sure your routers don't conflict.

Never tried Tomato, but I've heard good things about it.

yeah, it's a strange problem, as it works just fine until i start nzb downloads. after a few minutes, all other clients will lose internet, but the nzb system continues just fine. only a hard reboot of the router resolves it. i figured it's due to the v8.0 having so little RAM and it can't take the connection load or something.

i had to go with dd-wrt on it, as there was a known bug with this specific version and my local ISPs DHCP process. it fails to get an IP w/ the stock firmware. talk about annoying. known issue and as soon as i went to dd-wrt, it worked properly.