Just for information sake I bought a Linksys WRT54GL wifi router recently and would recommend anyone who is looking to purchase a new router for SOHO use to go for it. Other than the fact that it boldly says open source inside and actually running a Linux kernel I am currently using it for the following setup.
1. One VOIP phone wired connection. 2. One work laptop wired connection running VPN 3. Laptop on wifi running skype, bittorrent and usual surfing. I am basically using the advanced QOS feature of DD-WRT which is the opensource firmware I have flashed the router with. The basic priority list is as follows: 1. MAC priority premium to VOIP phone 2. MAC priority express to office laptop 3. Bittorent traffic bulk priority 4. HTTP/HTTPS with standard priority Therefore I have actually called people to solve work related problems on the VOIP phone while working on the office laptop while my bittorrent download was going on with no bandwidth throttling configured on the application level. To compare I had initially run the router with the original Linksys firmware and I found that no amount of tweaking the parameters could stop my bittorrent traffic to not gobble up all the bandwidth. Mithun __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
