Ask HN: Is there a "new" WRT54G?

You might appreciate Jeff Atwood's post on the subject. [1] He comes down to the Asus RT-N16 with the open-source Tomato firmware.

[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/because-everyone-st...

TP-Link wr1043nd is one of the preferred routers for OpenWRT.

Featuring 32mb RAM, 8mb Flash, 4+1 Ethernet, 2.4ghz 802.11bgn wifi, and an USB port.

The best thing is that it requires no binary drivers and runs perfectly on Linux 2.4 to 3.3.8.

The Asus rtn16 is popular, it has a fast processor, large amount of RAM, is dual band N, and has USB storage capabilities. I use WRT350Ns all the time, and love them, even if they are light on RAM and are draft-N.

The Asus RT-N16 is still not supported by OpenWrt!

The broadcom gmac driver is not covered by a GPL compliant licence.