polarcloud.com— This has been dugg twice already 200 days ago but this firmware is the best I've found so far for the WRT54G. So this is another heads-up.
Feb 25, 2007View in Crawl 4
I've been considering using Tomato for quite some time now, but because this story hit the favourites, I have a question I hope someone can help me answer.I'm currently running ClarckConnect and my WRT54GS is solely used for wireless devices to access ClarkConnect box. I'm curious to know if Tomato would be better than ClarkConnect because if it is, I'm more than happy to use the PC running ClarkConnect for something else.
I have been running Tomato on my WRT54G v3 router for a week and and it is extremely stable. I had been using DD-WRT v23 for 6 months prior and it is great also but has more features than I need. Tomato is very lightweight and yet powerful.
Very simple. You can turn your $50-60 router into one so full of features that you would have to pay several hundred dollars to get the same features in a comparable off the shelf router.
As a parent I highly recommend using Tomato. I've tried just about all the wrt54 firmwares, I love the "Access Restriction" ,no others works as well. The "Access Restriction" setup features are a great imporvement over others, It allows alot more entries, I can easily filter out web sites, key words and time restrictions, amount of entries are not as limited as the other firmwares. The kids don't know what hit them. (No more need for Net Nanny, etc.).
I ran dd-wrt on my Buffalo (whr g54s) for almost a year. It performed perfectly when I was the only computer on the network but now I've got a few computers on the network and when one runs a torrent the rest of the computers slow to a crawl. Apparently it's a popular issue but I was unsuccessful at fixing the problem. I installed Tomato which by the way provides an excellent installation script for Buffalo routers, and routing software just works! Not to mention I get really excellent graphs and statistics on my bandwidth usage. The whole things just feel cleaner, simpler, and lighter than dd-wrt. Tomato makes me happy.
"You'll be needing the Digg down button over there ---->"Don't be silly! If I dug you down, then there's less chance that someone would read my reply in which I make you look foolish."I looked around some more and saw that there is a link to the source code. That is good but who has reviewed it?"If you're trying to protect the security of your network, isn't it your job to review the source code? (Because we all know that the author of a major open source router project is just itching to find out your myspace password and to listen to the Celine Dion MP3 files you have on your system.)Open source is not social networking. An advantage to open source is that you don't have to know who the author is and who the author's friends are. You don't have to make decisions based on whether you believe that the guy pictured on a web page looks trustworthy. The source code is there. You can examine it. You can recompile it if you don't trust the binaries that the author is providing.
bendedavisFeb 27, 2007
Will DD WRT work with my WRT54GS Version 6? I seems it only goes to version 4.
perry753Feb 27, 2007
Visit DD-WRT forums and wiki... p2p problems are a COMMON problem and very easy to fix.gl
Closed AccountFeb 27, 2007
Yes i used this on my fon router ! , you can use cron to make fon think you have the router online =)
foggy10Feb 27, 2007
I honestly can't remember the last time I rebooted my dd-wrt. No reason for me to change.
soapycubFeb 27, 2007
I've been considering using Tomato for quite some time now, but because this story hit the favourites, I have a question I hope someone can help me answer.I'm currently running ClarckConnect and my WRT54GS is solely used for wireless devices to access ClarkConnect box. I'm curious to know if Tomato would be better than ClarkConnect because if it is, I'm more than happy to use the PC running ClarkConnect for something else.
sleepynessFeb 27, 2007
Tomato for sure.
slappingturtleMar 4, 2007
I have been running Tomato on my WRT54G v3 router for a week and and it is extremely stable. I had been using DD-WRT v23 for 6 months prior and it is great also but has more features than I need. Tomato is very lightweight and yet powerful.
slappingturtleMar 4, 2007
Very simple. You can turn your $50-60 router into one so full of features that you would have to pay several hundred dollars to get the same features in a comparable off the shelf router.
himselfMay 14, 2007
first shake the router vigorously, then double click Add/Remove firmware
fixit888May 31, 2007
As a parent I highly recommend using Tomato. I've tried just about all the wrt54 firmwares, I love the "Access Restriction" ,no others works as well. The "Access Restriction" setup features are a great imporvement over others, It allows alot more entries, I can easily filter out web sites, key words and time restrictions, amount of entries are not as limited as the other firmwares. The kids don't know what hit them. (No more need for Net Nanny, etc.).
gunrockbeachJun 4, 2007
Has anyone out there added snmp to Tomato?
sandroJun 21, 2007
I ran dd-wrt on my Buffalo (whr g54s) for almost a year. It performed perfectly when I was the only computer on the network but now I've got a few computers on the network and when one runs a torrent the rest of the computers slow to a crawl. Apparently it's a popular issue but I was unsuccessful at fixing the problem. I installed Tomato which by the way provides an excellent installation script for Buffalo routers, and routing software just works! Not to mention I get really excellent graphs and statistics on my bandwidth usage. The whole things just feel cleaner, simpler, and lighter than dd-wrt. Tomato makes me happy.
ocmeSep 30, 2007
There is a Tomato Mod for OpenVPN support<a class="user" href="http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showpost.php?p=302472&postcount=1">http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3 ...</a>
fdiskJul 26, 2008
Excellent, just got me the WRT54GL. Original firmware was so outdated. DDNS was broken.Now on Tomato Firmware v1.20.1508 WTF !!! :)
Closed AccountSep 22, 2008
"You'll be needing the Digg down button over there ---->"Don't be silly! If I dug you down, then there's less chance that someone would read my reply in which I make you look foolish."I looked around some more and saw that there is a link to the source code. That is good but who has reviewed it?"If you're trying to protect the security of your network, isn't it your job to review the source code? (Because we all know that the author of a major open source router project is just itching to find out your myspace password and to listen to the Celine Dion MP3 files you have on your system.)Open source is not social networking. An advantage to open source is that you don't have to know who the author is and who the author's friends are. You don't have to make decisions based on whether you believe that the guy pictured on a web page looks trustworthy. The source code is there. You can examine it. You can recompile it if you don't trust the binaries that the author is providing.