Don't really now, it was the missing features in stock firmware and the legendary stability in these third party software to got me on the way to use this.
My old router could not to what i wanted and router software is in general buggy and badly supported. WOl from internet is deliberatly blocked in consumer netgear routers of that era ? I never used the stock fw i started the router found the upgrade menu and loaded tomato. I worked it the other way, researched which firmware would suit my needs and got myself a suitable router to run it on. And the old days this ways the router to have, it has good track record with squeezeboxes and was often suggested on this site for stable connection with squeezebox V3. With third party fw note that. If the stock fw works ok for you why change. Now with all these N routers and mimo and stuff it could be a bit old and on its way out, but i like it . It is not the fastet thing out there you now. I installed Tomato and it worked was planning to try DD-WRT but never got that far, i have no problem to solve anymore. be a bit careful with the radio power stock is 40mW you can crank it to 200mW but the radio can actually get noise problems that way 80-100mW is what most people do, I also use the 7dB extra large antennas you can get as an option, but they are more directional. Note that if you run it this way it needs good ventilation, don't put it directly on the pc, it was a warm summer day and could notice that my nternet speed was drooping untill I spaced it a bit above my hot pc :) -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: SB3 (soon to replaced by a Touch :) It is on preorder) Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Receiver (soon to be replaced by my SB3 and the SBR to be stuffed in a box in the attic ) I use a Controller various ir-remotes and a Eee-PC with squeezeplay to control this ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74672 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
