bit-tech.net | Wireless router group test

SteveyG 6th March 2007, 15:37

I have the RouterTech firmware on a Safecom router, and DD-WRT on my WRT54G(L)'s. The third party firmwares are truely excellent, and the additional functionality now available on the WRT is astounding, way exceeds the features a router could give you for less than £200. The Safecom used to drop the connection every month or so, but the RouterTech firmware has stopped that, not that it was much of a problem anyway. Never managed to crash the WRT54G, and only suffered one problem where it stopped working - but that was one of the dodgy SMPSU's that were doing the rounds. They've now seen the light and provide proper PSU's with transformers in them. :)

Glider 6th March 2007, 16:09

In the article it states a couple of times that there was a linksys router connected to the tested router... So there was a double NAT for those pc's? Or was it just a switch that was added?

WilHarris 6th March 2007, 16:25

Switch :)

airchie 6th March 2007, 16:32

@ the Bit staff

You guys think you would be able to try out a wireless router running the RouterTech firmware?
I know I would love to see the open-source routertech firmware stacked against the likes of Netgear, Linksys etc. :)

Spaceraver 6th March 2007, 21:03

Wired all the way... I dont trust wireless for neither security nor speed and reliability. :)

airchie 7th March 2007, 08:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by airchie
@ the Bit staff

You guys think you would be able to try out a wireless router running the RouterTech firmware?
I know I would love to see the open-source routertech firmware stacked against the likes of Netgear, Linksys etc. :)

Bump. :)

djDEATH 9th March 2007, 15:00

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Originally Posted by randosome
personally, before i changed i had the linksys WRT54GL - and although a great router, it dies when trying to use bittorrent

YES!!

I'm so glad its not just me!! We have this very router, my XP/Vista box wired in upstairs, our Linux MythTV box in the living room wired (which is also our bittorrent client) and we both have laptops that wirelessly connect.

Bittorrent runs, but when its finished, and i turn on my laptop or reboot my PC, i get 'acquiring network address' in windows, and the maddest DNS errors in my system log on my linux laptop. Bizarre - we tried updating the firmware to a linux based one, third-party, but it died, and we had to short two pins on a flash chip on the circuit board, just to flash the rom and reload the original firmware.

Its a shame, cos the wireless strength is really good, and although a reboot of the router sorts it, its just a shame that its completely useless in the long run - every tuesday we download 24 and heroes, and it involves rebooting the router without fail, not somethingi like doing. especially when its for unknown dns problems i'd prefer to hunt down and fix.

randosome 10th March 2007, 00:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by djDEATH
YES!!

I'm so glad its not just me!! We have this very router, my XP/Vista box wired in upstairs, our Linux MythTV box in the living room wired (which is also our bittorrent client) and we both have laptops that wirelessly connect.

Bittorrent runs, but when its finished, and i turn on my laptop or reboot my PC, i get 'acquiring network address' in windows, and the maddest DNS errors in my system log on my linux laptop. Bizarre - we tried updating the firmware to a linux based one, third-party, but it died, and we had to short two pins on a flash chip on the circuit board, just to flash the rom and reload the original firmware.

Its a shame, cos the wireless strength is really good, and although a reboot of the router sorts it, its just a shame that its completely useless in the long run - every tuesday we download 24 and heroes, and it involves rebooting the router without fail, not somethingi like doing. especially when its for unknown dns problems i'd prefer to hunt down and fix.

you might wanna check out DD-WRT - apparently that is much better

Saivert 16th March 2007, 10:14

Yup! I'm using DD-WRT on my Linksys WRT54G (v3.1) router and it kicks ass. You got simple VPN server (PPTP) if you need to, you can add as many port forward entries as there is available memory, you do site surveys, check signal quality of connected wireless clients, it has a much better design of the administration web pages.

DD-WRT turns your cheap WRT into something worth a lot more.

www.dd-wrt.com

TRY IT!

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