Episode 71 - Free $500 Router Upgrade (For your junk $50 Router!) [Discussion]

[whiskers]

Will this work on a Linksys WRT150N n router? I need a stronger signal and farther range with my n router.

[preske]

Originally Posted by whiskers

Will this work on a Linksys WRT150N n router? I need a stronger signal and farther range with my n router.

no, a quick glance at the official website, will tell you the following

What will this run on?
* Linksys WRT54G v1-v4, WRT54GS v1-v4, WRT54GL v1.x, WRTSL54GS (no USB support)

I just found out about Rev3 a week ago from a co-worker and really enjoy the Systm episodes. Good variety of topic coverage, guys.

A co-worker told me about Tomato a few months back and I switched my WRT54G v3.1 over as a test (purchased way back in the day when I first started playing with wifi bridging). The WRT54GL I have is still on DD-WRTv24 since I haven't needed it lately, and haven't taken the time to upgrade. But I'm pleased with the over all functionality of Tomato and it seems to be a little faster than DD. I think the new graphs in DD are on the same level for monitoring.

Now, if I could just snag myself a WRTSL54GS for cheap, I'd have to go back to DD in order to get the USB support and set up a small NFS server on it. Loved the episode on FreeNAS, btw.

[deviationer]

nice product placement with the Beck.

[justinstrack]

I have a version 6 & 8 of the Linksys WRT-54G.

Why doesn't tomato support that? Has anybody installed it on a version 6 or 8?

What alterinatives do I have to have a bandwidth monitor. I have a router with DD-WRT.

Thank you for the help in advance.

Originally Posted by fishtoprecords

Yeah, if you have to hug, do it with Veronica, Julia, Dr Kiki, etc.

I have somebody to hug, but if I did not then Dr. Kiki knocks my socks off. Snubs (hak5) reminds me of the mother of my daughter at that age. What a fox. One look and she would have you hook, line, and sinker. She looks like my daughter a bit also. My daughter has done a bit of twisting men around her little finger.

I found one little thing I did not like about tomato, that I might at least try dd-wrt on my buffalo router to see which I like better. After trying both firmwares, I will then decide which firmware to put on the wrt54gl. Since my brother uses dd-wrt on his linksys router, I am leaning towards it.

[justinstrack]

[quote]I found one little thing I did not like about tomato, that I might at least try dd-wrt on my buffalo router to see which I like better. After trying both firmwares, I will then decide which firmware to put on the wrt54gl. Since my brother uses dd-wrt on his linksys router, I am leaning towards it.[quote]

computoman does your brother have a bandwidth meter he uses on DD-wrt?

Let me know my website is in my profile.

[preske]

Originally Posted by justinstrack

I have a version 6 & 8 of the Linksys WRT-54G.

Why doesn't tomato support that? Has anybody installed it on a version 6 or 8?

What alterinatives do I have to have a bandwidth monitor. I have a router with DD-WRT.

Thank you for the help in advance.

You could try Netmeter. It's free, and you can keep track of your down and upload on a daily, weekly and montly base.

As why the tomato doesn't work on the 6 and 8 versions, that's because they aren't based on the linux-model they used in their previous versions. they explained that int he episode i believe.

If you want a custom-firmware capable router, buy the wrt54GL (which is essentially one of their older models, they just renamed it)

[preske]

Okay so I installed Tomato (which was a breeze). But I'm not liking it.

The only reason I installed the thing was because the promise of "bandwidth monitoring per device". Well, you can monitor it, but only live.

I want to see the download for daily, weekly, monthly downloads (and/or uploads) for each device which this firmware (if I'm not overlooking something, that is) does not.