Several years back, I put Tomato firmware on an old WRT54G when all my old 802.11N devices were constantly crashing. It was 100% worth the bandwidth downgrade.

Several years back, I put Tomato firmware on an old WRT54G when all my old 802.11N devices were constantly crashing. It was 100% worth the bandwidth downgrade. I practically never had to touch that router again. I hope to never buy a router without DD-WRT (or equivalent free software) support again.