A Tomato And A Linksys Router....

[wehugheog]

Ok, here is the thing.

The Linksys WRT54G wifi router is a marvelous machine if you use it in the right way.

Normally the Linksys is "ok" but needs to be rebooted once a week or so when you are using your internet connection heavily. It just slows down to a crawl.

What to do? Get a tomato! No, not a red one but this one: http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato

I have done this to all my Linksys routers and it works like a charm. No more rebooting once a week or more, much more control and much much more!

Check it out and spread the word.

[innerspace]

Completely agreed, but with the WRT54G it will only work on the older versions v1-v4.

However the WRT54GL is readily available new in Thailand and runs tomato fine.

For best results use a WRT54GS v1-v3 with twice the RAM!

[Tropicalevo]

Completely agreed, but with the WRT54G it will only work on the older versions v1-v4.

However the WRT54GL is readily available new in Thailand and runs tomato fine.

For best results use a WRT54GS v1-v3 with twice the RAM!

lol. I do not have a clue what you are talking about.

But I will buy one anyway.

[tariq786]

Yes WRT54GL is very nice router although I am using dd-wrt.

[innerspace]

lol. I do not have a clue what you are talking about.

But I will buy one anyway.

Basically if buying new, get a GL.

Linksys dropped the specifications of newer versions of the G and the GS so anything past version 4 won't run tomato.

The G version 4 was re-released as the GL to avoid the angry mobs.

[monty]

Yup, lovely things.

Actually there are quite a lot of routers from different brands running almost identical hardware inside, as such they can also run all those freely available linux based firmwares!

In the case of DD-WRT (together with Tomato they are the 2 most popular ones) you can see here on which routers it runs.

I'm runing DD-WRT, and one lovely thing you can do with it is re-assign the WAN (internet) port to any of the other LAN connections. Came in handy after the WAN port got blasted by a lightning strike, DD-WRT avoided the device having to be thrown away!

And you can even make a load balancing router out of it by creating a second WAN port, making it probably the cheapest dual wan router on the market (not so easy though!)...

[Phil Conners]

I've now got a WRT54GL running Tomato. It can measure bandwidth used over different times which I though was quite interesting, to see how much bandwidth I actually consume over a month, however, it seems when there is a power failure, which is a quite regular occurrence here in Thailand, all data are erased.

Under "configure" i get some options to save the bandwidth history. The default is "RAM (temporary)". I can change to NVRAM or a couple of other options, but then it doesn't like to save any more frequent than every 3 days, which is a bit of a long time to lose data for.

What are other people using this setup doing?

While I'm at it, also the QoS settings doesn't seem to make sense. It seems that all you can do with it is to limit bandwidth for various classes. I'd not want to limit bandwidth for anything, but would like to lower the priority of packets for, say, torrents. How is that done? The documentation is a bit vague on it.

[Phil Conners]

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