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I had the 1.72 firmware for a long time. I had been aching for DD-WRT as I've been running custom router firmware since Talisman on my WRT54GL (when you could only use the L.inux router for custom builds). I bought this knowing that Buffalo would be coming out with a DD-WRT for it soon.
Even though my 1.72 was working fine, I upgraded the the DD-WRT. OMFingG! The wireless signal turned to a caca-taco. The hardwired devices were fast, fat and happy, but anything that tried to get on wireless with the newest DD-WRT was SOL. They authenticated fine fine, but page loads were abysmal and packets were dropping as if Snoop was on my network.
Before you ask me if I (name your favorite troubleshooting step here), I power cycled the router, pulled the pulg, reconfigured settings, reset to default, bounced all wireless devices, bounced the modem and router, re-applied DD-WRT firmware. I did many of these things several times. Still, wireless speeds like listening to your grandmother tell you about a website (you see, you go to hache.teetee.pee. Slash. Slash. Colon. dubya.dubya.dubya....)
Disappointed. Yeah, my disappointment goes all the way to eleven here.
Even though I figured it would brick my router I was so sad I didn' t care. I just applied 1.76 directly over the DD-WRT from the DD-WRT GUI. Bingo. Back to the buffugliness. Yeah, it is crazy looking, yeah, the control locations look like they were decided upon by throwing numbered wads of bubblegum at the wall and yeah, it frickin reboots after EVERY (!!!) stinking change which I don't understand. Somehow the bittorrent client is able to cache torrent downloads before writing to the disk, but the stupid firmware can't cache a few edits to checkboxes so I can edit a few pages before my 50s restart? WTH?
But you know what the worlds ugliest firmware does well? Route wirelessly. Thanks, buffugly, tanks berry mush.