Tomato is described as 'Small, lean and simple replacement firmware for Linksys' WRT54G/GL/GS, Buffalo WHR-G54S/WHR-HP-G54 and other Broadcom-based routers. It features a new easy to use GUI, a new bandwidth usage monitor, more advanced QOS and access restrictions, enables new wireless' and is a router custom firmware in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Tomato for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Self-Hosted, Tomato, OpenWrt and Web-based apps. The best Tomato alternative is OpenWrt, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Tomato are DD-WRT, MikroTik RouterOS, Freshtomato and Gargoyle.
easy to use, great features.