ITT post and discuss routers. I'll start:
WRT54GS v6
Runs ddwrt micro v24-sp2
overclocked from 200MHz to 233MHz
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ylH6Q.jpg[/IMG]
WNDR3300
Runs ddwrt v24-sp2
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/iF562.jpg[/IMG]
I also have an old-school linksys bef fat router and a WGR614 somewhere. Too lazy to look.
EDIT:
The only working camera I have is my iPod's so sorry for the image quality
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I have the Linksys E4200, or something like that. All I know is that it's the most expensive one and my mom is very illiterate.
ASUS RT-N16 running Tomato.
533 MHz CPU
128MB RAM
32MB of Flash
[IMG]http://cdn.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/P_5001.jpg[/IMG]
I'm rocking a WRT54GL with Tomato.
[img]http://www.verkkokauppa.com/productimages/orig/30178_01.jpg[/img]
I'm thinking about switching firmware, again.
[QUOTE=nikomo;31728502]I'm rocking a WRT54GL with Tomato.
[img]http://www.verkkokauppa.com/productimages/orig/30178_01.jpg[/img]
I'm thinking about switching firmware, again.[/QUOTE]
To what, ddwrt?
[QUOTE=drummerundrcovr;31728508]To what, ddwrt?[/QUOTE]
Most likely.
[QUOTE=nikomo;31728532]Most likely.[/QUOTE]
I've been wondering, are there any advantages to using either firmwares? I heard ddwrt can handle connections better but I can't be sure.
I run a WRT54GL with DD-WRT, boosted the wireless power from the control panel.
Most reliable router I have ever had, Uptime is over 200 days. Supports IPv6 Too.
I've got WRT54GS v1.1. Once I installed ddwrt on it because the linksys firmware didn't want to work properly. It's running "DD-WRT v24-sp1 (07/27/08) mini - build 10011". ddwrt hasn't been updated much since then, has it?
Sometimes it's wlan just fucks up though. The access point disappers and I have to plug the power cord out and put it back in to get wifi to work again. It happens often when I play OpenTTD online.
[QUOTE=drummerundrcovr;31728576]I've been wondering, are there any advantages to using either firmwares? I heard ddwrt can handle connections better but I can't be sure.[/QUOTE]
It's mostly just the functionality that you can get.
Tomato is very barebone, whilst DD-WRT has stuff like virtual wireless networks, VPN etc.
[QUOTE=sim642;31728650]I've got WRT54GS v1.1. Once I installed ddwrt on it because the linksys firmware didn't want to work properly. It's running "DD-WRT v24-sp1 (07/27/08) mini - build 10011". ddwrt hasn't been updated much since then, has it?
Sometimes it's wlan just fucks up though. The access point disappers and I have to plug the power cord out and put it back in to get wifi to work again. It happens often when I play OpenTTD online.[/QUOTE]
There is a nasty remote root vulnerability in older versions of DD-WRT. It's probably a good idea to upgrade.
I have a D-LINK dir-655. I wish I could run custom firmware though. :(
WRT54GL running DD-WRT v24-sp2 (10/10/09) std
WRT54GL with tomato, most stable combination that I know.
Buffalo WHR-HP-54G running DD-WRT (4 years old) as the main router
Linksys WRT54GL running DD-WRT (1 year old) running in bridged mode in my room to the Buffalo.
Both have been fairly reliable. Except for this morning, the Linksys just went "fuck it, I'm on break" and decided to not allow internet access to the main router. Never changed a single setting, and anything connected to the main router still had internet, and the Linksys said it was connected to the main router.
It wasn't until I turned on my laptop that I got my internet back. It doesn't even directly connect to the Linksys. I have no idea how it made a difference, but whatever, it works.
For those who have WRT54 series routers, does overclocking makes any noticeable performance change at all?
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;31732698]For those who have WRT54 series routers, does overclocking makes any noticeable performance change at all?[/QUOTE]
I haven't seen any performance change.
Then again it's not like I'm running a 1000-computer cluster, utilizing at least half a bazillion connections half the time.
I thought the overclocking feature with DD-WRT should only be used for applications where the router isn't actually being used as a router. Like if you're using it to control a robot or some other electronic project where you need a compact and cheap computer.
I'm using a WRT54GL with [url=http://fixppp.org/]Tomato/MLPPP[/url], been solid as a rock since I got it.
Anyone know of any firmware that supports IPv4-to-IPv6 tunneling?
I want to use my router as a tunnel with a service like Hurricane Electric so I can access IPv6 sites etc.
I've had nothing but bad luck with hardware routers, especially shitty Linksys routers. I have a pile of 6 of them sitting in the corner of various types (all bought new mind you) that don't work properly. I got fed up with them and just built my own router:
[img]http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/9945/img0083ae.jpg[/img]
It does the job 1000x better, and can do more than just routing. It's currently a router, HTTP, SQL and PHP server. It also can segment networks (hence the dual port and unused NIC, they're 3 different networks that can't talk to each other.) I could also toss a wireless card in and have a 4th network for wifi, but I don't need that at the moment. This setup is so much better that I'll never be going back to hardware routers.
[QUOTE=Demache;31731739]Buffalo WHR-HP-54G running DD-WRT (4 years old) as the main router
Linksys WRT54GL running DD-WRT (1 year old) running in bridged mode in my room to the Buffalo.
Both have been fairly reliable. Except for this morning, the Linksys just went "fuck it, I'm on break" and decided to not allow internet access to the main router. Never changed a single setting, and anything connected to the main router still had internet, and the Linksys said it was connected to the main router.
It wasn't until I turned on my laptop that I got my internet back. It doesn't even directly connect to the Linksys. I have no idea how it made a difference, but whatever, it works.[/QUOTE]
That's a common problem among Linksys routers. The stock firmware has a terribly small ARP table/Conntrack table. Basically if you do any heavy internet use like torrenting, the tables overflow and won't allow any new connections to be made (hence why current connections still work.) Custom firmwares like DD-WRT have options to make the tables bigger, but it depends on how much RAM the router has available.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;31732698]For those who have WRT54 series routers, does overclocking makes any noticeable performance change at all?[/QUOTE]
I have a friend with several WRT54x routers and overclocking them doesn't have much of a performance impact. You may notice a small latency decrease when the router is processing packets, but it's more likely the CPU will overheat. We attached one of those small heatsinks with the double sided thermal tape and it solved the issue.
Bohb what OS you running on that router machine?
I assume it's some Linux or BSD distro, most likely customized for something like this.
Fedora Core 14.
I don't use any of those pre-configured packages or distros, I wrote my own 800+ line IPTables script and configured all of the services required manually.
Let's talk about the joys of port-forwarding!
On my router? It's not that hard really.
All I have to do is login to it via SSH and use nano to add/remove 2 lines of code and reload the script.
I had no idea there were custom firmwares for routers.
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[QUOTE=K3inMitl3id;31733552]Let's talk about the joys of port-forwarding![/QUOTE]
Uhhh... It's really easy?
[QUOTE=bohb;31733606]On my router? It's not that hard really.
All I have to do is login to it via SSH and use nano to add/remove 2 lines of code and reload the script.[/QUOTE]
Why seperate different networks in a home environment?
Do you have any proper reasoning or did you just do it for fun?
[QUOTE=nikomo;31733650]Why seperate different networks in a home environment?
Do you have any proper reasoning or did you just do it for fun?[/QUOTE]
I separate them for practical reasons.
My family likes doing stupid things on the internet, and I don't want my machines in the crossfire of spyware and viruses they get. Before I segmented the networks and isolated them, there was more than one occasion I got a virus on one of my machines that exploited vulnerabilities in Windows networking. It also gives me the power to throttle their internet connection at the source since they like to do heavy torrenting/streaming/hulu/etc. without having to individually QoS every machine.
So, now I have one network solely for my trusted machines and one network solely for everything else in the house that's untrusted. The third network is for untrusted machines brought in from the outside (I have a computer repair business) and they're often loaded with viruses and spyware that I don't want touching either network. This network is also heavily restricted on what it can do so an infected machine can't randomly start zombie mode and DDoS someone.
I've just got an old-ish Linksys WRT-160Nv3 running DD-WRT V24sp2.
d-link DIR-625, its starting to give up though, going to replace it REALY soon
For all of you WRT54G users out there, you can do some modding and install two USB 1.1 ports (only requires a couple of resistors, capacitors, wire, USB connectors and a 7805 VRM) and/or a SD card reader. I read about a few people that attached a 500 GB external drive to their router via the USB ports.
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