Yesterday I bought the Linksys WRT54G wireless router.  I flashed it with DD-WRT, a free linux firmware upgrade.  Within the next few hours afterward, connections were dropped a few times.  My roommates haggled with me to fix it.  After awhile I didn’t feel like fighting with the router, so I went back to the original firmware.  And I cursed off open source and linux.

This morning, I wake up and within an hours time on the computer, my internet connection is dropped 3 times.  From this, I inferred that the problem was the linux firmware, but the actual router’s hardware.  So I drove to BestBuy and exchange my router for another one.  Lets hope this one doesn’t crash.  I have always said quality control of Linksys routers would go down after being bought out by Cisco.  This is my proof.