3rd Party Firmware to boost your routers performance and add features...

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue May 22, 2007 2:32 pm

If you have certain models/versions of routers, you may be able to install some 3rd party firwmware which can add features and boost performance of your router, as well as gain some stability.

Some of the popular routers which these firmwares are available for.....the Linksys wrt54g series, and some Asus and Buffalo Tech routers. Note that you need to be careful of "versions".

//insert "Use at your own risk" words of caution...you can brick your router with a flash gone bad..and render it useless.

You can get features such as
*VPN server
*Increase your wireless output for increased range
*VLAN support
*Increase in bridging and WDS support
*Traffic charts
*AP mode, flip role of WAN/Internet port to 5th switch port
*Overclocking the CPU
*IDS and antivirus scanning of traffic

A basic one which has the look and feel of stock Linksys firmware...
http://www.hyperwrt.org/

A very popular one which adds quite a few features...
http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/index.php

Another cool one that has a nice looking web admin, traffic charts, etc
http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato

This one I believe is relatively new.....and it really captures my interest because it introduces some enterprise like UTM features such as antivirus and Snort intrusion detection features..you'd only find on high end enterprise grade hardware that costs thousands, or on some of the better linux distros such as Endian or IPCop with the Copfilter add-on.
http://packetprotector.org/

I'm listing the popular ones up above...DD-WRT, HyperWRT, and the growing Tomato. There are some more openwrt and various projects to be found at these forums at Linksysinfo....
http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/forum ... .php?f=116

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Wed May 30, 2007 8:57 pm

also add the older belkin
f5d7230-4 v1000 (v1223df), v1010, v1111 'all builds of dd-wrt
v1444 (microbuilds only)
F5D7130 (micro dd-wrt builds)
F5D7330 (micro dd-wrt builds)

dd-wrt router chart

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices

open wrt route chart

http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware ... direct=toh

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Wed May 30, 2007 9:25 pm

I wonder if tomato would work on the version 6 Linksys wrt54G?

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Wed May 30, 2007 9:26 pm

CableDude wrote:I wonder if tomato would work on the version 6 Linksys wrt54G?

Nope.

This firmware will work on:
Linksys WRT54G v1-v4,

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:56 am

I just got dd-wrt working well on a Linksys WRT300n v1.0. ( = no version # next to name on bottom of router)
Upgrade was simple:
1. hard reset the router.
2. connect by cat5.
3. login using default Linksys password.
4. Upload dd-wrt firmware dd-wrt.v24_mini_wrt300n.bin.

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:35 am

its awesome aint it. why didnt you use v24 sp2?

kethnaab · Post by **kethnaab** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 8:56 pm

anythign to help out the pitiful range of a Linksys WRT610N dual band?

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 11:57 pm

dd-wrt will let you up the power on xmit. as far as receiving. get a high gain antenna

kethnaab · Post by **kethnaab** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 1:42 am

morbidpete wrote:dd-wrt will let you up the power on xmit. as far as receiving. get a high gain antenna

will it still maintain 5GHz N-band functionality? I was under the impression it was for 2.4GHz G wireless (new to all of this, still absorbing it all)

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 7:15 am

kethnaab wrote:will it still maintain 5GHz N-band functionality? I was under the impression it was for 2.4GHz G wireless (new to all of this, still absorbing it all)

gdubu · Post by **gdubu** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 2:53 pm

How do you configure a high gain antenna when all the existing antennas are internal?

BaLa · Post by **BaLa** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:45 pm

I picked up my Dads old WRT54G Router, and put Tomato on it.
I'm running DD-WRT on my WAP54G.

I like them both a lot better than the stock Linksys Firmware.
I am running the WRT as an AP.

I really like the bandwith/chart on the Tomato FW though.
http://members.speedguide.net/bala/tomatochart.jpg

nzjohn · Post by **nzjohn** » Tue May 04, 2010 8:14 pm

Hi
Can any of these router improvements monitor the bandwidth per ip or per mac? I have up to 4 homestay students who use my wireless lan and abuse the limit rules. They get 2 gig monthly each but usually deny their overuse. Can I meter their individual use without installing software on their pcs? They come and go so it would be good if charging based on monthly use logs were possible.
Thanks mate.

JohnMi · Post by **JohnMi** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 11:21 am

Of course it helps to improve the bandwidth, but I tried it on Windows Vista, but it’s not working, Can anyone help?

JohnMi · Post by **JohnMi** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 11:29 am

Of course it helps to improve the bandwidth, but I tried it on Windows Vista, but it’s not working, Can anyone help?

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