So I go to the thrift store, and I find a sealed in box WRT54GSv1

>>55480175
I got one for 5€ like two month ago, after my old one died (because of a shitty power adapter).

I been using them for a wifi bridge for my older computers for 10 years now.

The very first one of those fuckers I got from my school, when they where buying new ones.

>>55480175
>Do you guys think the value of this thing is gonna go up in coming years being sought after by retro tech collectors for being so legendary back in the day, or should I just open it and put DDWRT/OpenWRT on it?
I don't think that they will become valuable if that's what you're asking. They are really common, and it's not like newer wireless standards are not backwards compatible.

>>55480175
It's useless due to being old and obsolete. Unless you are using computers that still use floppy discs, you'll be heavily bandwidth capped even for cable routing.

from the top of my head the wrt54gs has 100mbit as a switch, and about 30-40mbit for routing. But I had a later version, the GSv1 might not even be able to do that much.

I know I sold my old floppy drives for thousands.
Collector's antiques

>>55481006
My internet is fucking garbage, my downloads are at 1.2mb/s max. If I pull it out of the box and change the firmware it will still have a decent use.