Is it worth it to do the whole openWRT thing on your router?

[Este Nuno]

Anyone here do this? I've always wanted to do this over the years but never got around to it. I hear lots of good things but I'm not sure if it's really worth it or not.

[AmDD]

I have DD-WRT on my Linksys WRT54G router. I always wanted to mod it and install an SD card but never did. I like DD-WRT, it has a ton of nice features. So many infact that most I have no idea what they even do!

[legitnick]

I'm running dd-wrt on my router and using one as a switch, basically if you want all the basic functionality's of cisco switch/router without paying $100+ it's worth it.

[sippsnapp]

I have it working with a TP-Link WR1043ND running as switch behind my router,  if you loose the connection while flashing, the router could be toast (happened one time to me).

[chmod755]

Anyone here do this? I've always wanted to do this over the years but never got around to it. I hear lots of good things but I'm not sure if it's really worth it or not.

IMO It's worth it.

I currently have a Netgear WNDR3800 running as a switch behind my router and it works very good (using OpenWRT).

[MysteryMiner]

I have DD-WRT Mega build on my router and it have orders of magnitude more features than original firmware. And it is more stable too, not a single hanging in last 3+ years. The latest DD-WRT is somewhat fucked up but it does not have security problems that were discovered in previous versions.

If You are confident that you can flash the firmware then it is worth it! It is more useful than any of the original ones.

[quasarbtc]

I've gone with DD-WRT whenever possible and I've been quite pleased with the features and stability.

[wumpus]

Depends on what you want.

I've always preferred dd-wrt (http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index) for my Linksys routers, it's also an open source firmware for those routers, more powerful and configurable than the original firmwares, but keeps the web interface. It is somewhat less flexible than openwrt but I didn't want another device I had to configure at the prompt

Then again, things may have changed since I last looked at this stuff. My current router+cable modem doesn't support any of the open firmwares