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I'm running Tomato, and reviews seems to indicate that it should be slightly faster than DD-WRT in some cases, but the difference would not be major in any sense. There's a year and a half old review of the two firmwares with some figures here.

None of them get close to 100 Mpbs unfortunately. Overclocking would help, but I doubt it would be enough. There's some info on overclocking DD-WRT here.

As for the RouterStation Pro there's some info on the recently completed competition to develop a Open-WRT based admin interface for it, posted in slashdot a few weeks ago, some furher details here.

I really like the WRT-routers, they're stable and cheap, but a bit too slow.

It's great if "open source" is seen by a company like Netgear as a positive marketing tool. However, it's a bit of a stretch to list DD-WRT, OpenWRT. and Tomato as all being open-source. Tomato has a nonproprietary back end plus a proprietary web interface. DD-WRT has a history of GPL violations, and tries to charge people more money for a version with more functionality. If you take "open source" totally literally, then yeah, maybe these are open source, in the sense that you probably are allowed to read the source code freely. But I don't think that's what most people in the open-source world really mean by open source. OpenWRT is the only one on this list that is really totally free and nonproprietary. I run OpenWRT on my router, with a web-based front-end called Gargoyle, which is also (really) open source. Gargoyle is pretty bare bones, but it is good enough for a lot of quick, simple stuff. It would be nice if the developer could include just a tad more functionality in it, though, because I do end up having to ssh in and do certain things from the command line.

What I would really like is a cheap router that wouldn't crash and hang up all the time. For my home network, I picked up a wrt54g v.4 on ebay, because it has more memory than the current models, and is reputed to be more stable. I also bought a (cheap) UPS, because a lot of people say it's power surges that tend to cause routers to lock up. Well, I still have to reboot the router fairly frequently. It doesn't seem to be correlated with what firmware and software I run, either. I don't understand why I should have to reboot such a simple, single-purpose device more than once a year. The netgear box referred to in TFA is $130. I might consider paying that much for a router for my home network if I had some reason to believe it would need less frequent rebooting. The problem is that I have never seen reliable data that measured frequency of lockups in routers and correlated it with specific variables that I have control over. I'm perfectly willing to believe that a $1000 router designed for medium-sized businesses would not lock up. I just don't want to pay $1000.

The problem is he often makes early/first posts with slanted views that do not accurately reflect the information presented. Some of them are convincing and he gets upvoted but it spreads misinformation.

Earlier today he posted this: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1313945&cid=28806481

The flaw lies in the implementation of the HTTPD used for router's Admin Web GUI. Which is a custom rewrite by Brainslayer & the DD-WRT team.
A brief history of DD-WRT (warning: it's biased against the project): http://www.bitsum.com/about-ddwrt.htm

He complains of "the dangers of homogeny" when the software bug was from a hobbyist-type build of a custom firmware.

Then he closes with the following statement: "Just because we love Linux doesn't mean that we should sacrifice the entire ecosystem to that love. We need to nurture other implementations to prevent this type of virus from wiping out our entire networking infrastructure."

While melodramatic, he's misrepresenting the actual number of DD-WRT users. The subset of router enthusiasts with DD-WRT is smaller compared to those who use other 3rd party firmwares (OpenWRT, Tomato, etc available on Broadcom or Atheros chipsets) and those who never bother to reflash their routers at all or have routers that are unsupported by DD-WRT.

DD-WRT is Harmful to open source

Check out Process Lasso from here http://www.bitsum.com/prolasso.php. It was free before but its now $9.99 for personal use which is still a great deal considering what it can do. It dynamically adjusts the priorities and gives you all kinds of control over how things run on your machine. If I was still running Windows(tm) I would never be without it. btw - I have no affiliation with the company what so ever, I just like the product.

There is some controversy surrounding DD-WRT; you must decide if you want to support them or not. I use OpenWrt with the X-Wrt extension, which also has powerful QoS functionality in a GUI.

I thought that DDW-RT sucked and there are better alternatives.

I've been liking the Buffalo routers. The WHR-G125 or WHR-G54S can be found cheap and work nicely with alternate firmware like DD-WRT. The factory firmware is pretty decent though too, which increasingly cannot be said of Linksys. Though, it is possible to flash at least some of the newer Linksys routers with the micro edition of DD-WRT. It's hard to impossible to go back to VxWorks though, so exercise caution.
http://www.bitsum.com/openwiking/owbase/ow.asp?WRT 54G5_CFE

Try Process Lasso, it has a process log feature. Very handy.

http://www.bitsum.com/

--nomax

You can do that with Process Lasso. http://www.bitsum.com/ProSuper.asp