Zyxel ADSL2+ 4-port router issues

[CoffeeFiend]

I have a WRT54G Ver2 and it is perfect. There is a LOT of traffic passing through it. 100 Gig a month sometimes and its absolutely fine. I dont know what bad experiences you have had with them but i love mine lol

That's exactly what I was saying. Those were good. 16MB RAM and 4MB of flash. But they've been out of production and stock for several years. The only WRT54G you'll find in stores now are v8.x, which like I said have only 8MB of RAM and 2MB of flash, hence won't ever run Tomato, nor the standard versions of DD-WRT (only the micro builds) -- nor anything special (like kismet drone), are more complicated to flash (your average user won't really care for vxworks killer and tftp upload), and have fixed antennas too (forget about nice high-gain antennas). They're a waste of money. Hell, I got one right here on my desk doing nothing, not even sure if I'll ever do anything with it...

The old GS version was even better (32MB RAM, 8MB flash, USB port), but same story, they're now crippled too -- all of 2MB of flash, so no Tomato and all that.

People were complaining about how much they sucked (Linksys got rid of Linux on them, and used a vxworks-based firmware instead, just so they could get away with saving a few pennies by skimping on RAM and flash), and that they were ultimately useless for 3rd party firmwares, which is what made it so good in the first place. So they listened, and and brought back the good old WRT54G v4 (right before it started sucking) under a new name -- the WRT54GL (L for Linux, as in, enough RAM and flash to run what it used to run), and raised the price $10. It has 16MB of RAM and 4MB of flash like the old WRT54G models, replaceable antennas and all.

I personally wouldn't go for any lower than 16MB RAM and 4MB of flash. More would be nicer, but routers with more memory tend to cost quite a bit more... And eventually you get into fancier stuff (routerboards, or expensive & complicated cisco gear, or linux/bsd servers, etc)

Edited August 4, 2008 by crahak

[eyeball]

Oh, i see so i do have a good model then,

Thank you for the detailed explanation Crahak.