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druidcent wrote:Thanks for the advice.. pulled the trigger on it, and we'll see how it does.
Follow-up question.. I've seen Tomato and DD-WRT before, I kind of know what they do, but can anyone give me a good explanation for why I would want to load them on to my router? What cool features can I enable that would make futzing around with the install worthwhile?
druidcent wrote:Thanks for the advice.. pulled the trigger on it, and we'll see how it does.
Follow-up question.. I've seen Tomato and DD-WRT before, I kind of know what they do, but can anyone give me a good explanation for why I would want to load them on to my router? What cool features can I enable that would make futzing around with the install worthwhile?
Forge wrote:druidcent wrote:Thanks for the advice.. pulled the trigger on it, and we'll see how it does.
Follow-up question.. I've seen Tomato and DD-WRT before, I kind of know what they do, but can anyone give me a good explanation for why I would want to load them on to my router? What cool features can I enable that would make futzing around with the install worthwhile?
QOS? Multi-SSID? Traffic shaping? DD-WRT can do almost anything you can imagine, it's got very few limitations.
On the other hand, some folks just want their router to route. It can do that, too.
Mine did a nice Multi-SSID setup (one with MAC whitelist, WPA2, no traffic shape/rate limit, and another with WPA1, no whitelist, heavy traffic shaping and rate limiting), it was lovely to have folks over, name an SSID and password, and know they hadn't decided to do something bizarre like fire up ten million torrents (had that happen once). The more secure WLAN was used by things like my HTPC, which I could give both latency and throughput priorities to.
Anyways, all kinds of stuff. What kind of things would you want from it?
mdk77777 wrote:Yeah, it is old, and it does run warm.
But for range:
I have it in the basement and my kids use their ipods and iphones all night upstairs(2nd story)
I just put it elevated on some old heat-sinks
emorgoch wrote:Wouldn't wooden blocks be better?
Captain Ned wrote:emorgoch wrote:Wouldn't wooden blocks be better?
Well, they better be Mpingo Discs.
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