On October 4th, Andrew wrote a comment to Bricking the WRT54G...Sveasoft firmware really sucks. I suggest you look at DD-WRT:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/
I am using v24 (pre-rc4) on my WRT GSs and they are rock solid. QoS is working too!
Andrew is not a fan of Sevasoft. His page www.sveasoftsucks.com is a clue as to his feelings on the matter.
So at Andrew's (and Anonymous's) behest, I took a stab at DD-WRT.
So far so good.
I am not quite there with its QoS (Quality of Service) piece because my ISP is giving me some odd readings when I test for my upload and download speeds at Broadband Reports. Last night, my upload speeds were FASTER than my download speeds (...umm, that's wrong.) I am going to give QoS another go this weekend.
Something else I am noticing about DD-WRT is that the web service process that serves up the interface must have low priority because if the router is busy, the web interface takes a while to respond. I am sure I could "nice" it up. Not major.
BUT, and this is huge, unlike the Sevasoft firmware versions, DD-WRT is not crashing.
Looks like we have a winner.
More later.
2 comments:
You might want to try Sveasoft'sa latest public firmware Talisman/Basic V1.3.1 http://www.sveasoft.com/modules/phpBB2/dlman.php?func=select_folder&folder_id=14 .
The Alchemy firmware is like 2-3 years old. DD-WRT is actually a fork of the Alchemy firmware with an OpenWRT linux kernel.
I had an anonymous comment on a previous post...
"I went to the site. I suppose it would be too much for Sveasoft to put a big, green download button on the site that says 'download here.'"
I don't mind Sveasoft links in comments at all ("marketplace of ideas" and such I believe), but I have to ask... Why do they want my MAC address? Why would they need may MAC address? Instead of pulling my info out of me, why not push me back to the site, with great forums and faq's. Then throw some ads up to monetize the site.
Tear down the wall.
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