buzzinh Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 I have a WRT54G v2 and am thinking about upgrading to either DD-wrt, open-wrt, or tomato....but i can't decide which one to go for?! Does anyone have any preferncs / advice on which one has the best features etc..... I have done a hell of a lot of reading on all different firmwares and need you guys to steer me away from the lesser good ones. cheers BuzzinH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 OpenWRT is the more powerful one, but dd-wrt is a lot easier to use imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothCriminal Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 I use DD-WRT, and it does everything I could want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 if you want to use it and forget about it use dd-wrt but if you want to learn and play around with it use openWRT openwrt will sometimes not work 100% so keep that in minf if you router needs to be up 100% of the time use dd or the stock firmware Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarshReality Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Personally Ive used DDWRT on my V2 and cant keep an active connection over wireless for anything. Once I start hitting on it trying to stream here at home it crumbles. BUT, making use of Tomato its never once dropped. Downside... Tomato doesnt support v6,7 or 8 WRTs and I cant get it to make use of the SDcard mod :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felony_destined Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 I have a WRT54G v2 and am thinking about upgrading to either DD-wrt, open-wrt, or tomato....but i can't decide which one to go for?! Does anyone have any preferncs / advice on which one has the best features etc..... I have done a hell of a lot of reading on all different firmwares and need you guys to steer me away from the lesser good ones. cheers BuzzinH your username is buzzinH as in, buzzin hennesey? I was just wondering... sorry if this is too personal of a question? :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Personally Ive used DDWRT on my V2 and cant keep an active connection over wireless for anything. Once I start hitting on it trying to stream here at home it crumbles. BUT, making use of Tomato its never once dropped. Downside... Tomato doesnt support v6,7 or 8 WRTs and I cant get it to make use of the SDcard mod :-( I've been running dd-wrt on a wrt54g v2 and a wrt54gl for some time now, nearly 3 years in the case of the wrt54g. And i've never seen the wireless problems your speaking of. I've never streamed video out to the net, but I have used vlc to push video around the house with it, and Ive never seen that problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarshReality Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 3 years, how often do you upgrade the firmware? But its not streaming to the net per say, I have a 1T home made MAS hooked to a buffalo (also running tomato) and its streaming to the WRT54G in the livingroom connected to my xbox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Pretty much as soon as a new one came out, I was using the rc and beta builds before v23 but since v23 sp2 I haven't upgraded the firmware on either. Currently the GL is being used as a router and the G is being used as a client bridge for my machines downstairs. But, having said this I'm going to religate the GL to purely function as a wireless AP and switch the routing and firewall over to a box running PFsense. As good as they are, I need a more substantial router at this point, especially when it comes to firewalling. But, the wireless has yet to fail me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzzinh Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 I have a WRT54G v2 and am thinking about upgrading to either DD-wrt, open-wrt, or tomato....but i can't decide which one to go for?! Does anyone have any preferncs / advice on which one has the best features etc..... I have done a hell of a lot of reading on all different firmwares and need you guys to steer me away from the lesser good ones. cheers BuzzinH your username is buzzinH as in, buzzin hennesey? I was just wondering... sorry if this is too personal of a question? :? Sorry i don't know what that means??? It is derived from BuzzinHornets which was used by Jordan F1 team years back in countries where they could not use tobaco advertising (their sponsor was Benson & Hedges) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felony_destined Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 I have a WRT54G v2 and am thinking about upgrading to either DD-wrt, open-wrt, or tomato....but i can't decide which one to go for?! Does anyone have any preferncs / advice on which one has the best features etc..... I have done a hell of a lot of reading on all different firmwares and need you guys to steer me away from the lesser good ones. cheers BuzzinH your username is buzzinH as in, buzzin hennesey? I was just wondering... sorry if this is too personal of a question? :? Sorry i don't know what that means??? It is derived from BuzzinHornets which was used by Jordan F1 team years back in countries where they could not use tobaco advertising (their sponsor was Benson & Hedges) I seeeee, well I just assumed buzzin hennesey like, you were buzzing > off of hennesey like the liquor but w/e thank you for showing how wrong I was? not that this even matters lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzzinh Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 lol no worries! :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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