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imontoyaJan 16, 2008
The OP is too narrow minded for saying wired is the only way. Each technology has it's use. Wireless 54g is fine for most streaming media and browsing from your couch; video works pretty good too at 54g speeds, and even better in a homogeneous environment with all wireless cards from the same vendor, where you can take advantage of the vendors "super" or "extreme" modes of up to 108Mb/s. Wireless 802.11n will improve this considerably and allow all the vendors to play together nicely. I upgraded my home wired network to gigabit Ethernet simply because I did find that 100Mb Ethernet was truly a file serving bottleneck for me. My home network has relatively small disks on the desktops, and a RAID file server in the closet which is backed-up automatically. User data, source code repositories, build directories, document repositories, MP3, video all served off the same server, and at 100Mb/s I was only getting about 7-8MByte/s transfers across the net. Now, with the 1Gbit network, I can easily get 40-50MB/s across the wire, and this is near the speeds of a locally attached disk from about a few years back (i.e. firewire, USB2.0, IDE133, etc). It doesn't approach the current SATA speeds of an attached disk, but it's pretty close, the benefit of having a server outweighs the small speed discount, and it's far better than 100Mbit/s Ethernet, which was truly unbearable. When 10Gb Ethernet becomes affordable I'll upgrade, because my home network is highly dependent on having a fast Ethernet. I'm clearly not a typical home user.
glitch82Jan 17, 2008
My box that pulls whole hard disk sized snapshots of any computer at home and can push a 50 GB image to any PXE bootable machine in under 30 minutes mocks you.
ahughesJan 17, 2008
I have been running tomato on mine for 6 months now. It works great. I love it.
jkaechlerJan 18, 2008
yes but,Will It Blend?and DD-WRT is better, tomato and tomato 2 have an uncomfortable UI.Tomato does have some neato real-time monitoring tools though....................
marybabooJan 24, 2008
I still prefer DD-WRT on my WRT54G v8: <a class="user" href="http://tinyurl.com/27tme9">http://tinyurl.com/27tme9</a>
pcxbox360Mar 22, 2008
dd-wrt was nice until it literally broke my router. I tried to switch back to the linksys firmware but it was too late, the damage had been done. I didn't try anything crazy, just set the router up like I did with linksys firmware. Lesson learned.
air802Mar 7, 2009
Tomato and DD-WRT require firmware upgrades, which of course not all are interested in dealing with. An excellent alternative that many are not aware of is to buy a professional wireless router that you won't encounter in the local electronics store. The AIR802 AP-G250 at <a class="user" href="http://www.air802.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.air802.com</a> is a 802.11b/g router that offers 250mW of RF output power versus any typical store bought model with 35 to 50mW. With strong signal, the speed of the connection is much higher versus even draft-n technology. This model can function as a wireless router, bridge or even be a powerful client device with site survey to see all avaible networks. With rich features like VPN support, QoS, Firewall, Security and many other capabilities and at a price less than $100, this is a serious product for any user. It is also reliable without the frequent reboots required on consumer grade store bought routers.
incidentfluxJul 4, 2009
A mod does...Tomato ND 1.23 Thor MOD - SDHC | SNMP | VPN<a class="user" href="http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showthread.php?t=61552">http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showthread.php?t ...</a>ND only- Based on Victek's sources so it has all his features- SDHC with GUI- SDHC Logging GUI- Wrt54 Skin based on absolon- tomato-FS-patches 6.04.09- net-snmp 5.0.9 & Interface- OpenVPN 2.1rc13 & Inteface(Keith Moyer's implementation)
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