I ordered a WRT54G-TM and got a WRTU54G-TM: What Have I Gotten Myself Into?

I noticed this weekend that T-Mobile was clearing out their variant of the WRT54GS for $20, so I ordered one since I happened to need to replace my aging BEFSR41 (I already have another WRT54G serving as my WAP). I just got notification that T-Mobile ran out of the unit I ordered were out and were giving me a free "upgrade" to the WRTU54G-TM. Any thoughts? I don't have T-Mobile service, I ordered the original router merely because it was on clearance and was suppose to work fine with or without T-Mobile, so now I'm wondering...
How does this unit compare to the more traditional WRT54G-TM? I get the sense that if I'm not planning on using VoIP it really isn't as good, but overall I am just confused.
Thanks!

My problems with the WRTU54G-TM have settled down to having some aspect of phone service simply stop working perhaps once every 6 weeks, at which point a reboot of the router "fixes" the problem. I'd like to eliminate that last issue, and I'm hoping there will be a new firmware release soon (January I hope?) that finally gets this resolved. For the most part, though, I'm finding this to be OK.
As an alternative, I'd considering trying T-Mobile's new VoIP adapter that's designed to work with whatever router you *already* have. If I had that, I'd install something like DD-WRT on a WRT54GL model (have to find one with a lot of memory -- most of the newer models have less memory and can only take a reduced version of DD-WRT), or "Tomato" -- there are a couple of alternative 3rd party software packages that turn the WRT54 series routers into very capable, powerful and feature rich devices with far more control than the Linksys firmware currently provides for us.
In the meantime, however, the WRT54GU-TM is pretty stable for me except for the periodic reboot requirement -- good enough so that I can live with it until the next firmware release (assuming it's soon!).
- Jon

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