The best feature for me is the support for unusual wireless topographies. Our house is rented, so I can't go drilling holes in things to route ethernet cable. I

The best feature for me is the support for unusual wireless topographies. Our house is rented, so I can't go drilling holes in things to route ethernet cable. Instead I've built a wireless mesh network out of several DD-WRT routers, with the bonus of bridging this to the wired switch on each unit. This way the xbox and the kitchen computer can connect to the internet, which comes in upstairs, with no fuss. You can also do lots of fun point-to-point stuff. With a decent aerial and line of sight you can throw wifi for 2 miles or more using consumer routers. http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Linking_Routers http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Linking_Routers a close second is the SNMP server, allowing me to use this OSX dashboard widget to get a graph of incoming/outgoing bandwidth usage at the router: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/networking_security/ieyenet.html http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/networking_security... If anyone is wondering which device is generally considered the best balance of price/spec for running these firmwares, its widely agreed to be the Buffalo WHR-HP-G54, which can be had for around £40/$60 EDIT: oh yeah and of course its also an openVPN server. Forgot about that. And if you get one with a USB port you can plug in a HDD and run rsync on it...