user224 ,
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Good idea.

You can still get the newest DD-WRT builds even on the WRT54G.
That is a Wi-Fi router from 2002.

Of course, the features are sort of limited. I tried the VPN build (on WRT54GL), but I couldn't get the OpenVPN client to connect. I found some thread mentioning it may be missing something, but I don't know if that's the issue.

Anyway, without overclocking I'd expect like 2Mbps. I mean, it barely handles HTTPS. Just trying to load the WebUI maxes out the CPU for several seconds if trying to use HTTPS.
Perhaps it's not missing anything software-wise, but it's just so slow it times out during handshake.
So I just put the std build on it in case it will be useful at some point.

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