Moody

@joe1pt: Thanks for sharing your experiences with me, much appreciated. I'll probably try the Linksys for a while and see what it does for me before attempting any firmware upgrades. You surprise me with the frequency of rebooting your routers, I can't remember the last time I rebooted my old SMC, certainly over a year and I use BT everyday, if it had wireless I wouldn't change. I have 10meg downstream, will the Linksys (flashed) handle that speed? My SMC can't, about 800 KB/s tops, that's from a newsgroup, best I've had from a BT 700 KB/s. I should get about 1200, probably needs a reboot.

Thanks Icydog. I have seen that in this thread, I feel apprehensive about flashing it with a homebrew. It tells me there is an issue with this router and should have chosen an alternative but I have no idea what to get.

I have just purchased Linksys WRT54gs, (should have looked at this thread first) to replace my 5 year old SMC Barricade. I fancy moving over to wireless, my PC's I want to keep wired for now, I want my laptop and modded Xbox to go wireless, so need a router that will give me both options. Before unwrapping it, should I take it back and exchange it, if so, what should I go for? Any suggestions, within reason money's not an issue?