WRT54G Distribution questions

[Josh ChaitinPollak]

With all the chat about the WRT54G's, I thought I'd share my  
experience this weekend. I decided to try an alternative firmware, so  
I searched around and considered SveaSoft, DD-WRT, and OpenWRT.

I ruled out OpenWRT as too much work. They didn't have a nice 'this  
is how you do it' guide, and I didn't feel like needing to shell in  
to my router to make changes. Maybe OpenWRT has a configuration  
webpage, but it wasn't obvious from their homepage.

I looked at SveaSoft, but after reading their own home page, as well  
as the pages of people who post their firmware freely, I decided I'd  
rather not deal with SveaSoft. They don't seem like a trust worthy  
bunch.

I decided DD-WRT, a fork of SveaSoft, was reasonable, so I installed  
the latest version. I liked the options, though the webpage didn't  
render 100% correctly in Safari. I liked the ability to boost the  
power, though going from 28 to 50 didn't seem to make much  
difference. Unfortunately, I found I lost internet connectivity after  
about 10 minutes and had to reboot the router.

So after all that, I ended up reverting back to Linksys's latest  
release, which at least is stable.

I'm curious if anyone has any comments about my experiences.

I have a WRT54G v2.2, if that matters.

-Josh