I just flashed my router, linksys wrt320n to dd-wrt. It was surprisingly easy. I did start with the mini. Tonight, I’m going to upgrade to the big. Anyway, have any of you used dd-wrt? What do you think of dd-wrt? What has been your experience?
It’s very nice. Provided much more features than the manufacturer supplied firmware for my router. For example it is not necessary to reboot the router every time a small change is made. The irony is that the mfr version is also Linux based but not as well written. That’s the power of collaborative improvement.
I’ve been tempted…I was thinking of getting a second (better?) router, in order to have a play, in a non-destructive/hot-swappable way, but I’ve been a bit put off by:
Lots More Features, Lots Less Performance: NETGEAR WNR3500L with DD-WRT Reviewed
To me, the attraction is of getting a fully-featured firewall with complete flexibility and not just a dummed-down, made easy, interface (without running another box to do it). A performance sacrifice to get that wouldn’t be the end of the world, as far as internet performance was concerned, because I don’t start off having all that much of it… 
I’m not sure that is so much the case as that the manufacturer has completely different objectives…good throughput in trivial reviews, a simple, fresh-looking, interface, and ability to ship the product quickly, rather than the stuff that you only find out once you’ve had the device for a few months.
Nah, the DD-WRT version doesn’t lose anything in performance on my router. The web interface has no effect on the throughput of the network stack. Perhaps the mfr’s version has less choices for users, but then I prefer more choices. More likely it was written by some third party to minimum specs and then just modified slightly for each new model.
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 02:36:01 +0000, Jonathan R wrote:
> I just flashed my router, linksys wrt320n to dd-wrt. It was surprisingly
> easy. I did start with the mini. Tonight, I’m going to upgrade to the
> big. Anyway, have any of you used dd-wrt? What do you think of dd-wrt?
> What has been your experience?
I’ve been using experimental builds of openWRT myself, the two aren’t
much different, but I understand there were some issues with dd-wrt’s use
of some non-GPL’ed code (or something like that) that some felt was
inappropriate so openWRT was forked from it.
Good experience, overall.
Jim
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Just used it on two routers where a few employees were temporarily
located to different facilities and I needed to extend our subnet across
a WAN connection. Once dd-wrt was on the router it took less than 15
minutes to configure.
Currently working on creating a splash page with NoCatSplash (with
internet disclaimer a user must click on), in a facility that provides
public access wifi. Only hitch was getting the correct version of dd-wrt
that left enough room on the router to serve up a web page.
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 02:36:01 +0000, Jonathan R wrote:
> I just flashed my router, linksys wrt320n to dd-wrt. It was surprisingly
> easy. I did start with the mini. Tonight, I’m going to upgrade to the
> big. Anyway, have any of you used dd-wrt? What do you think of dd-wrt?
> What has been your experience?
I checked openwrt, and they don’t support my router. Strange. I’m still getting used to dd-wrt.
Using the mini version now on my Linksys wrt160n v3. It is a million times better than the mfg’s interface. I actually get better performance than I had with the stock interface now that I’ve figured out what some of the settings are for. I even figured out how to reduce my broadcast radius to keep the neighbors kid from trying to hack into my signal from his iphone.
On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:06:02 +0000, Jonathan R wrote:
> I checked openwrt, and they don’t support my router. Strange. I’m still
> getting used to dd-wrt.
That is strange, I thought both projects supported the same hardware. 
Jim
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