I don't know guys, I think this might be a case of "I hate company x. I've bought 37 things from them and they all failed miserably. I'll never buy from them again, and only buy from company y." We had a hard drive discussion like that a while back.

I've had very few bad experiences with Linksys products. Sure, I've had some, but no more than other products in this space. If anything, I've had better luck with them.

Whatever experience you've had, I have had nothing but good experiences running a WRT54GL with Tomato installed. Yes, I've had a router go bad (just happened two days ago, actually), but it ran for 2 years, and only cost $50.