You either:

a) have dad issues
b) have made the unfortunate mistake of selecting a couch potato to father your children

I'm sorry either way.

We so need "edit"..

But that still doesn't make their current marketing strategy acceptable. Unfortunately for me who was looking "bang-for-buck-WAN-performance" there aren't that many choices in this price category.

Yes, they do indeed work. Up to a point where your downstream crosses the ADSL2+ threshold and then they stop being such a good little buggers.

I ran a WRT54GS for ages with dd-wrt and was a happy camper. Until I got a new 110Mb cable connection (I live in Finland). The Linksys' WAN port capacity get's capped by the CPU power to around 2.4mbps and when overclocked to 252Mhz I was able to raise it up to 3.6mbps.

After changing to DIR-655 I was able to max out my 'net connection.