It’s a good thing I gave my mother my old router, because the new one hasn’t been working out as well as hoped. It works fine for a while, but then eventually it suddenly loses all of its settings, reverting to defaults and making me restore them from a backup. If it ever happens while I’m away, it’ll leave my wireless network completely open until I can get back and fix it.
It’s hard to tell whether it’s a problem with DD-WRT or with the router hardware, though. I’m leaning towards the latter, as apparently one possible cause of symptoms like this is if the flash memory goes bad, but it’s still hard to prove what the problem really is. And it’s not like Linksys will support a third-party firmware under their warranty, and I really don’t want to shell out another $130 just to test on another router that might well have the same problem.
For now I think I’ll revert back to the official firmware and see if it has trouble as well. Tomato was extremely reliable on my old router, but it doesn’t support this model.