[mcteapot]

I have been burned by so many routers in the past few years. It is amazing how terrible the factory firmware is on these machines. For most of them I have had to install DD-WRT just to get them working. Thank the flying spaghetti monster for open source.

But what I dont understand is why hardware manufactures go out of there way to prevent external software from being installed.

[dereg]

Most companies lock you into their own firmware because it'd be prohibitively expensive to provide customer support for all the alternatives out there.