A little over a year ago, I switched routers.  I went from my trusty Linksys WRT54G to a ZoneAlarm (CheckPoint) Z100G router.  My wife would be working from home now and I wanted a beefed up router for our home network.  The Check Point router had all kinds of bonus features for small office use.  It was really rock solid.  Over time though, I found its many shortcomings.  There is no QoS.  Running video and VoIP - I really needed a router that had good QoS.  The number of connections are limited.  At any one time I can have up ten devices on my network, and this box limited the number of outbound connections to 5.  I soon had to buy more seats.  With network printers, NAS, computers, and Tivos - you can run out of 5 seats rather quickly.

I finally had to give up on the Z100G router.  Last night, I dusted off my trusty Linksys WRT54G and flashed the router.  Afterwards I immediately loaded the Tomato firmware on it.  The routers has been happily running, it has great QoS built in to the firmware.  I’ll do another post more in depth on Tomato firmware later with links to helpful sites.