Jolt Country

http://www.dd-wrt.com/
instructions: http://lifehacker.com/software/router/h ... 178132.php
Do you need a wifi repeater, wireless client bridge, or a wireless router where you can overclock to boost wifi gain? Oh, well, only costs fifty bucks.

Using the above linked firmware you can install a custom firmware on many routers which allows you to essentially do whatever the fuck you please. I didn't want to drop 100 bucks on a wifi adapter for my 360, so I configured a buffalo router into a wifi bridge, it cost me fifty bucks and can be retooled into essentially anything I want. This basically invalidates every future wifi router ever, it's a real thing of beauty and I'm glad to share it with you.

I used the whr-g125 which is probably the most compatable as there is a custom version of dd-wrt for it (also buffalo has teamed up with these guys). Specific installation programs included a .bat file to do the timing for me to properly flash the firmware, from that making a bridge, or repeater is all as simple as futzing with the options.

Yeah, I adore my (first-gen) WRT54G.

I also have the Linksys NSLU-2, which is intended as a tiny NAS solution, but which I have hacked into a Debian box; it is what I compile and test Inform 7 for armv5tel on.

Bruce

In the interests of fairness:

http://openwrt.org

And, a branch of the same project for those who don't like command lines:

http://xwrt.org

Thank you, Worm, for starting this thread. A question, though: can someone more knowledgeable about this sort of stuff than I quantify just what you get with these that you don't with Linksys firmware, and how do they differ from each other? (I am already leaning towards XWRT because it is free; I believe DDWRT has afree version too but that's still not as cool). But, I odn't know why I shouldn't, what does one do that the other doesn't? In edition, do any of them support the V8 w54G, which I have? Maybe I'm being stupid but the compatibility lists for both of them seem to be ambiguous on that particular model.

dd-wrt uses a gui interface and is totally free as far as I can tell.