I've just started using an old (Mark 1) Linksys WRT54GS, which had been sitting unused in a cupboard, in place of a Billion modem / router which has been giving me some wireless problems. I also looked at the Tomato / DD-WRT choice and saw some of the instability comments, but DD-WRT has a couple of features I really wanted and it's been 100% stable for me.
In particular with DD-WRT you can assign the WAN port as a 5th LAN port (useful for me as I'm still using the Billion as a modem / Gateway / Firewall) and the WiFi configuration seems more flexible. Signal strength and consistency is massively better than the Billion. I'd also read about the heat / early failure problems if you turn up the power too much, so I've disabled all features I'm not using and set the Wireless power to a level where I get good coverage throughout the house but no more - a setting of "75" in my case, which gives a signal strength reading of 65% on my most distant WiFi Squeezebox and perfect FLAC streaming. Net of this is that I'm very happy with DD-WRT and would recommend it to anyone. Brgds Phil -- florca ------------------------------------------------------------------------ florca's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7486 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58591 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
