|Montana Bengal| Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 I've read a number of places that it was totally worth it to it on a wireless router...improved performance & a ton of new features. Just curious if anyone has put this on their wireless router? What have your experiences with it and what features? etc, etc.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 It is good stuff. I do not use all of the advanced features on it, but I have no problems with wireless dropping out or anything now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Montana Bengal| Posted January 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 [quote name='Ben' timestamp='1327002359' post='1090615'] It is good stuff. I do not use all of the advanced features on it, but I have no problems with wireless dropping out or anything now. [/quote] Can I ask what router you have it on? Any basic additional features? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 I actually have a [color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=2][left]D-Link DIR-615. [/left][/size][/font][/color][left]The asus was a router I picked up for my dad.[/left][left]The stuff I use, I could probably do on most routers without dd-wrt. Static leases, mac filtering, port forwarding, etc.. [/left][left]The big thing I have noticed is that I have zero problems now. With the stock firmware I would get random disconnects.[/left][left]There are a lot of QOS features you can enable. You can configure it to be able ssh/telnet into the router. Configure static routes, cron jobs. More security/logging options. Tunneling/vpn.[/left] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Montana Bengal| Posted January 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 [quote name='Ben' timestamp='1327070166' post='1090795'] I actually have a[left]D-Link DIR-615. [/left][left]The asus was a router I picked up for my dad.[/left][left]The stuff I use, I could probably do on most routers without dd-wrt. Static leases, mac filtering, port forwarding, etc..[/left][left]The big thing I have noticed is that I have zero problems now. With the stock firmware I would get random disconnects.[/left][left]There are a lot of QOS features you can enable. You can configure it to be able ssh/telnet into the router. Configure static routes, cron jobs. More security/logging options. Tunneling/vpn. [/quote] Awesome! Thank you very much. I have a router coming today and it is probably the first thing I'm going to do.[/left] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted January 26, 2012 Report Share Posted January 26, 2012 There is another firmware called "Tomato" I have heard good things about, just never used. It does not work with my hardware. [url="http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato"]http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato[/url] [quote name='Montana Bengal' timestamp='1327077847' post='1090824'] Awesome! Thank you very much. I have a router coming today and it is probably the first thing I'm going to do.[/left] [/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Montana Bengal| Posted January 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2012 I installed DD-wrt immediately and things seem to be working well. It turns out with my router there are basically 5 known issues. I have trouble with 1. At random times the router disappears. I have a script set up and that seems to have taken care of the major issue. Now I'm just waiting for the update to our DSL (actually any day now). The biggest issue is my wife checks out Pinterest and it is a bandwidth hog when you have a slow DSL connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 Can someone explain this pinterest thing to me? Every female I know loves it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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