I tomatoed my router

Do you have a high-speed internet router....one of those wonderful devices that lets you access the internet at home from your laptop without being tied down to the desk? We do. It's a Linksys wrt54g. I got it for my birthday about 3 or 4 years ago, and have loved the thing. Ironically on my birthday this year it decided it didn't want to work anymore. You could see its configuration web page, it would give you an IP address...but it wouldn't hook you up to the internet. For some reason it wasn't getting an IP from the cable modem. I figured I could flash the firmware with the same or even a newer version and it would return to normal. Didn't work. Then I thought I would try an older version. Well that pretty much killed it. When you went to the configuration page, it was there, but it was all messed up. And that killed the link to the page that let you flash the firmware. But, being the super genius that I am, I looked through my internet history,found what the flash update page was, and went to it. Like the main configuration page, it didn't display correctly, but it DID come up. So having some faith and looking at the source for the page that did come up, I worked my way through all the form fields, built my own web page, and was able to flash it again. But this time I didn't use the Linksys firmware. I used an open-source firmware called "Tomato". And it immediately got an IP, hooked up to the internet, and I was online. And today was the first day I had plans to work from home and I had horrible visions of being tied down in my office all day instead of working from the couch, the back porch, the bar, the kitchen table etc. So I'm happy. Now, back to work.

Oh wait...this isn't a tech blog. Sorry.