hermanm Posted March 26, 2008 Report Share Posted March 26, 2008 Wow, this router is great! Just flashed it with the lesser known Tomato firmware (I think DD-WRT is most popular). It has uPnP and QOS. Port forwarding is so easy now! QOS is allowing me to maximize the upload bandwidth without sacrificing my web browsing speeds. This router was made for Bittorrent traffic! I'm still using less than recommended connection settings for my upload speed of xx/768, but I'm getting max upload without maxing out connection which is what I wanted anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTHK Posted March 26, 2008 Report Share Posted March 26, 2008 I always wanted a GL ;_;Shouldn't this have gone in chat though? Anyway, what's the QoS like? Do you enter a value, and it shapes stuff under that value? That's in DD-WRT and I hated it >.> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermanm Posted March 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2008 Yeah, maybe chat.Here's a screenshot of the QoS screen. You can shape for based on a start and end value, or anything greater than a certain number. Well, I figure for a $50 USD router, the interface can be a bit kludgy. http://www.polarcloud.com/img/ssqosc108.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted March 27, 2008 Report Share Posted March 27, 2008 'Grats on the purchase -- very fine router indeed./me hugs Tomato Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerberos Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 I just bought one of these as well, and I must agree. I've noticed a difference already. I went for DD-WRT though. A friend of mine has it so I figured why not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seedUpsy Posted April 11, 2008 Report Share Posted April 11, 2008 Just hooked up mine today - switching from the SMC Barricade. I too am very happy...although for other reasons (can't find a place in my house where I get anything below a "very good" connection ) - I haven't even tried to open a port yet.Tomato recommended, eh? What're the perks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTHK Posted April 11, 2008 Report Share Posted April 11, 2008 Hello again seedUpsy . Alternative firmwares, like DD-WRT on my WRT54G V6, fix bugs with the stock firmware. Also, the V6 I have crashed with µT running because it lost memory tracking the connections, DD-WRT extended this limit, now the router doesn't crash unless I set the connections ridiculously high (tested about 2500~). Alternative firmwares can also add additional features, such as IPv6 support, overclocking, and increased transmitter power, though some of this isn't available on my crappy V6 because crappy Linksys put even less crappy flash memory in 54G models V5-V8, 54GL's have more memory.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seedUpsy Posted April 12, 2008 Report Share Posted April 12, 2008 That's crappy. I do indeed have the V8.2 and 1st thing I done was flash the latest firmware - and while this fella looks fully capable, looks can be very deceiving (right out of the box the CD was corrupted and I just rigged it up sans "installation disk") and there's always room for improvement, yeah? Thanks for the tip - I'll be investigating this further for sure.Btw, I'm looking to school myself a bit on the optimal config/settings for this model (now that I'm free of the Zyxel and SMC) can you point me in the right direction? I apologize if I've jacked this thread...I'll shuddap now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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