Piggie

Anyone else here run Tomato Firmware?

Tomato Firmware | polarcloud.com

I find it whips the llama's ass over anything else I have tried.

In particular it's QOS and Vegas Congestion Control.

1inxs

I've never played with Tomato, but I use dd-wrt on a regular basis. It's the best I've found. I'll have to take a closer look at Tomato.
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Piggie

I started on OpenXRT but it was too complicated for me at the time (maybe now too!).

So I tried X-Wrt that had built in web interface, in other words it all installed together. It worked darn good. Ran it about a year.

Decided to experiment having heard all the rage of DD-WRT. It was a clear step backwards. I was ready to dump it the same day, but gave it a week or so, after which I liked it less. Though it's a huge improvement over almost all factory firmware.

Another guy I know in Georgia had been playing and raving about Tomato. I said ok, I will try it. Wow, this was it. All the advantages of X-Wrt with out the hassle of half the stuff being command line and have to find the answers how to do things. Tomato's QOS also allocated bandwidth the best of all I tried. He recently added Vegas Congestion Control which helped even more.

The only draw back on Tomato is the list of routers is pretty short.

1inxs

I'll play with Tomato. There are a few things I don't like about dd-wrt. Once you've connected to a network, it won't allow you to log in to do a site survey. You have to manually reset the router and go it again. How does the Tomato approach this security feature?

Piggie

I don't have anything wireless and too far from neighbors to see if it was really working while connected. But it did shut down my wired connection while it as running. It says on the page wireless maybe interrupted but it got both.