Linksys WRT54GL

Linksys linux-enabled wireless routers, like the Linksys WRT54GL, are wonderful devices.  For the price of dinner and a movie and an hour of tweaking, you can have a wired and wireless network in your home with the features and functions of a $600 professional wireless access point, router, and switch.

Some of the new features you can add include:

• Quality of Service
• Permanent dhcp leases
• Automatic dynamic dns registration
• ipv6 support
• advanced firewall settings
• Child filtering rules
• and many more

Adding these features to your stock Linksys WRT54GL you need to upload a custom firmware to the device.  There are many different version to choose from.  Some of the more popular ones include:

• dd-wrt 
• tomato 
• OpenWRT