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outdated technology
This unit is 3 years behind the times. Better off to buy the D-Link 655. My Linksys died after two years and I replaced it with the D-Link. Is like going from a civic to a porshe.

blazing fast tomato router
I love this router. I just bougth my 5th one of these. When anyone asks for help setting up their wireless network, I get two of these bad boys. I put one for near the TV for xbox360, tivo, xbox, ps2, etc. and I put the other one at the cable modem/dsl modem etc. to share the internet.

Tomato is awesome and I buy this router specifically so I can flash it. I use one router as an actual router and the other one as an access point. This hardware is great because it runs the firmware I want. It's easy to flash and easy to use.

I love tomato because of the QOS. It makes it to where I can tell both routers that the most important traffic is VOIP and then XBOX live. This means that even if I'm downloading my legal torrents, I can be online blasting people in halo and talking on my VOIP phone.

Good router
Bought to replace a buffalo router, works great with the dd-wrt firmware. Only complaint is that the signal quality between this and a older linksys router is not as high as I'd like. But there is several walls and 70 or so feet between them. But as for the router its self, I'm quite happy with it.

Most stable router out there
By far the most frustrating experience about buying networking equipment is lack of stability. Often, routers hang, don't work well with other equipment, are not stable with hundred of connections (bitTorrent), etc.

Well have no fear, because this Linksys router has got to be the most stable router I have ever owned. I've had this one for about one year, and just bought my second. You definitely want to get this more expensive "Linux" version, so you can download custom firwmare into it. I highly recommend tomato firmware ([...]). Stable, simple, no frills. It supports DDNS, QoS, WDS, etc. Basically, it makes getting use of complex features easy. For example, you can set it up such that your VOIP (internet phone) traffic takes priority over your other downloads. This feature is called Quality of Service (QoS). So if you're busy downloading a huge torrent, your VOIP call will not suffer. If you're downloading torrents without QoS, VOIP calls can drop out or sound garbled.

This router is much better than my Apple Time Machine 802.11n wireless router, which does NOT support QoS. The Linksys is more stable, has more features, better wireless performance, etc. In my eyes, this is the only wireless router to buy until tomato supports a cheap 802.11n router.

I buy Linksys again and again
I've bought several of these for sever different locations and as gifts. They are always very easy to setup and configure. Just follow the step by step instructions if you've never done it before. You can be up and running in 5 minutes.

If you're having trouble with the unit, chances are, it's not your fault because these are VERY easy to set up and I've never had a problem with their reliability. In the several I've purchased (about 8-10), it has only happened to me once where I just had to take the unit back as defective and get a new one. No complaints though. It happens and is probably pretty rare.

Anyway, I recommend them to anyone novice or experienced. Easy to use and configure and great way to protect your network or your PC.