Customer Reviews
HAPPY 
2008-02-02
This is our first wireless router and after much research decided on the G54. I've had it about 7 months now and we have been very happy with our decision. I have it mounted about chest high at the end of the house on the first floor and have good coverage throughout the house, including through three walls downstairs and all of the upstairs through up to four walls. The connection in the far upstairs corner says 36Mb/s, but any difference is not noticeable browsing the internet. I have some computer skills but am no expert...I thought installation and connection with windows XP was pretty easy. There are 9 other networks running in my neighborhood but I haven't noticed any signs of interference. It's also been great running multiplayer games with the kids!
Just a heads up 
2008-02-01
I've owned two of these routers.
The first was DOA and had to be returned. The cost was about $8 to ship back. The second one died six months later and needed to be returned to Buffalo. They insist that you must have a signature receipt when shipped so that cost another $12.
Now I have spent about $20 more than I should have for faulty products, not to mention the time lost trying to get them to work and return packing and shipping. To add insult to injury, Buffalo reserves the right to send refurbished units as replacements.
While the router does have a good signal and I understand that one may obtain better firmware, remember that other firmware will void your warranty, and if yours dies like mine, you would be SOL.
As mentioned in several reviews, the documentation is so very weak, it is almost worthless, and I've set up a quite a few routers.
I have to believe most of the reviews you see here are from those who liked the router after a few days or weeks and haven't had a chance to really evaluate it.
Superb Performance 2008-01-01
I moved up from a LinkSys WRT54GL to a Buffalo primarily due to the MIMO technology (translates to a broader Wifi signal). I stripped the fttactory firmware and got the Tomato Firmware. This was back in August. No looking back since.
I have 4 wireless PC's accessing this + 1 IP phone. This product ROCKS!!! The coverage is *MUCH* better than the Linksys and infinitely better than the junk from D-Link. I got it at Newegg for a decent price and I am very pleased with this.
I cant find any cons about this. Coupled with Tomato, I have not had to reboot this in months!
Superb range,stability and speed
I own three of these bad puppies!! 2007-12-06
I bought my first Buffalo to enable my son and daughter to go untethered and to prevent from having to drill holes and run wires in our new home. His laptop has a built in card and I purchased a Buffalo 125g antennae PCI card for the daughters PC. Very easy to set up and worked like a charm with no problems. My inlaws live next door 200ft away in an aluminum mobile home and we were able to get signal over there on the laptop. AWESOME!
Next stage came of trying out online gaming. 2 PS2s in two different rooms. Here I go again looking for several days at every review possible before deciding on how to make the kids' consoles internet enabled. We actually ran cables from their room to where the router was at to make sure it all worked. Check. Now what do we use that is wireless. Buffalo actually sells a device called an ethernet access point and I have seen other so called "gamer's wireless adapters" blah blah blah....don't waste your money. Just buy this router in the qty of however many access points you need and with the flip of the lil switch and some configuration, Shazam! Wireless network without drills or running wires. The only wires I had to deal with was from the PS2 to the router set as a bridge/repeater/access point which is installed on each of the kids entertainment centers with the included lil bracket. We also recently jacked in a Vonage Voip phone system in the daughters room on her repeater and then lit the whole house phone line system by plugging in the phone line in her unused phone jack with no problems. Awesome again!!
I did have to call tech support for something I was doing wrong during configuration of the repeater set up, but they were very nice and very intelligent and they spoke American Born English! Triple Awesome!
I have referred two families to this brand. Unfortunately, now a year later after I bought my setup, Buffalo is under litigation with a foreign company and all their products have pretty much skyrocketed in price if you are lucky to find any. The sad fact of this taking place is that the second family will inadvertantly have to buy a different brand. If you read the reviews, you will see that they are primarily throwing money down the drain from not buying the Buffalo brand. My sympathy to the Largents.
To conclude, either pay the 2 to 4 times these gougers are selling this for (originally $65 at stores) or be patient and wait until the litigation clears 8 months from now. It is worth the money and the wait for such an awesome product. Thanks Buffalo!
Nice! 2007-12-01
To be honest, I'd never heard of Buffalo before I bought this. A techy friend suggested the brand so I figured I'd give it a try. I have a cable modem hooked up to it (a D-Link)and it does a great job handling the 2 hardwired PC's and 1 wireless notebook that use it all the time. Easy to set up, easy to use. My kind of device!
Love it and it works! 2008-03-25
I purchased this because of all the rave reviews on here. I had never set up a wireless before and it was quite simple.
The connection speed is fast and far-reaching! I have it sitting downstairs in the livingroom and I can take my laptop upstairs to my room and the signal is just as strong. It never drops out and I've never had to reboot it. I would highly recommend this wireless router.
DD-WRT! 2008-03-20
Hardware is rockhard stable, put DD-WRT firmware on this router and you get a really sweet host of features only found in high dollar pro-equipment, Stateful packet inspection firewall, wireless bridging, out of the box dynamic DNS support, uPNP that _just works._
Take heed Buffalo, just make awesome hardware, let the open firmware people write and maintain the firmware/software...
All that being said, it's too bad buffalo isn't producing more of these, seems like high demand has pushed the price to twice what it was when I got my hands on this router last November, 07.
Good Hardware Bad Firmware 
2008-03-06
Okay, I purchased this router just before the supplier stopped selling it in November (more you can find on Buffalo's site).
The router was okay, the wireless used to die every few days... can not make connection... Could not figure out why...
Then one wise user suggested to replace the firmware (that voided my warranty for sure) with dd-wrt or Tomato. I decided to implement Tomato.
Now it works like a charm... The fault is with the software that buffalo supplied.
No connection loss for 6 months! 2008-03-05
I have had trouble with routers losing connection in the past. Since I have frequent web meetings from home it was essential that I have a reliable connection to the web. After a lot of research and much consideration I bought this router. I haven't had a problem since.
It took some time to install but the main problem was getting through the comcast modem, once that was figured out, then no problem whatsoever.
I called the buffalo support, was on hold 10-15 minutes but he walked me through the steps and we determined that everything was fine on the router's end and then on to connecting through the comcast modem. Took some time, and had a friend come over to assist and once the "code" was broken it's been great.
I can say that at least when I called the Buffalo support number I did not get a man named "Sam" with an accent. Well, the guy had an accent but it was a Texas accent.
I do know that I will never purchase another Net Gear router!
This router is hooked up 2008-02-08
The house is built with concrete block walls, yea. Had a Netgear RangeMax for awhile weak signal, contently moving it, it finally gave out. Picked up a G54 on eBay for about $100 with DD-WRD installed. Placed it in the same spot as the Netgear, connected right up with ADSL maybe 5 mins setup time.
The external antenna does not seem to make any difference. I did jack up the transmit power, in order to get a good to excellect signal throughout the house and in the yard. It comes with a wall mount which I am using.
Its hooked up UPS so it never looses power, have not had to reset it yet, the Netgear reset about once a week. I think the bad reviews are from people that are very computer savvy.
