Linux open source for your router?

[OcciferFriendly]

I read the Tomato page - I think I'm having a **** moment here. What is the practical result to using this stuff? What does it do?

Sorry for the dumb question, networking is not my strong suit.

[wtcnbrwndo4u]

^ I'm with stupid. I've got a WRT54GS v.2. Does it help me any? Right now I'm running a Sveasoft firmware that's supposed to be able to increase range, but my router just crashes after a while.

[One4yu2c]

The Tomato firmware gives you a much wider range of tweaking options than the stock Linksys or Buffalo firmware. You can fine tune the QoS priority settings far beyond stock, see who's connected and log how much bandwidth each one is using, view other networks within range, re-program your router's buttons and create custom scripts, create a file system in the unused space of your router's NVRAM for storing small files, and the list goes on.

[wtcnbrwndo4u]

Originally Posted by One4yu2c

The Tomato firmware gives you a much wider range of tweaking options than the stock Linksys or Buffalo firmware. You can fine tune the QoS priority settings far beyond stock, see who's connected and log how much bandwidth each one is using, view other networks within range, re-program your router's buttons and create custom scripts, create a file system in the unused space of your router's NVRAM for storing small files, and the list goes on.

Well... That's useful.

I'll do it sometime when I'm not lazy. Right now, I need to break-in this card.

[Quakindude]

One other, very important aspect of this type of firmware is that you can program your router to output a higher strength signal. Increasing the wattage to the antenna is common with the one I've listed. Not sure of Tomato's app.