Our Linksys 310N router (version 1) has not been very reliable in the last few months. In the past two weeks, it was getting progressively worse, to the point where my roommates and I were re-booting the router multiple times per day just to keep our wi-fi connections going. We're not even regularly using any bandwidth-heavy applications or web services.
In comes DD-WRT to save the day. After a pretty quick and painless install, DD-WRT has been running solidly for 6 days and we have not rebooted the router during that time. It's been months, maybe even a year since the stock Linksys firmware was running that well on the router.
DD-WRT saved us having to spend $40-60 on a new router and throw away the router that we thought was ready to bite the dust. Thanks to the geek community behind DD-WRT we now have a fully-functioning router again.
At my family's house, their router running DD-WRT has seen over 30 days of uptime and they are using wi-fi with multiple devices around the house.
UPDATE 6/15/13: Our Linksys router running DD-WRT has now passed 15 days of uptime. This is a huge record for us because we have three people living in our house, and at least one person uses Netflix every day. I don't ever remember the stock Linksys firmware lasting more than a week before a reboot was required. DD-WRT has been running like a rock even through large file downloads and 30+ connections to
UPDATE 6/29/13: Now our seemingly invincible router has lasted to 30 days of uptime and is still going strong. A huge thank you to the DD-WRT community, we will be donating soon.
