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Strip away the casing of most routers and you're left with a fairly standard set of components. However, router makers use firmware to create differences between their products. The problem is that many very useful features that are possible with the hardware are made difficult or impossible by the software. DD-WRT is an open source, Linux-based alternative firmware that can be used with a massive variety of different routers.