My father-in-law, a United Methodist pastor, was just appointed to a new church. He wanted to get wireless setup to work with his HP laptop that I helped him purchase a while back along with a wireless network that I setup in his house.

Of course, being a church pastor, he is always trying to make sure they don't have to spend a lot of money. I happened to have an extra Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 wireless router that I knew would be perfect for his church, especially if I loaded the excellent dd-wrt firmware replacement.

Then I'd be able to use all the amazing functionality that isn't provided with the default firmware from Buffalo. I'd be able to get in remotely with vpn to help him for anything if needed. I could setup local DNS for other network devices if needed. I could also attach securely via ssh if needed. Who wouldn't want to do that? For the life of me I can't figure out why Buffalo or any of the other vendors that use Linux on their routers don't allow people to use the full power of it. I guess it would make their other over priced versions of that equipment totally useless and obsolete if you could do everything a $400 dollar router does by paying $40.