You never think its going to happen, but then it does.  Wow that sound cliche.  Last night I came home from work, broke out the laptop in the living room and was going to setup a site for a kids baseball team (thats Coach Riley to you) and...hmm, where's my wireless??  I have two routers in my house, one for the front, one for the back and I'm only seeing the back one.  I go down stairs and my beloved wrt54g (v1 mind you and they're up to ...v9 or 10 now) has no life, at all.  Being the electro-nerd, I break out my MM and verify that yes, the power supply is still working and I am offically SOL.  I try some voodoo which results in - nothing.  Sigh.  And it was so easy to drop dd-wrt on it too.  I've had that router for at LEAST 5 years so it led a good life and served me well.  I got two low gain antennas which I may find useful for some other project at some time but it sucks.  What's worse -- I need to buy another router now and the newest wrts are ...well, lame and I really don't like/want/need a "draft-n" router (those things piss me off).  To quote strongbad "Why do my 30 year old electronics keep breaking on me?!".  Time to get a new one.