Unlocking the power of the WRT54GL(and a few other routers) with LINUX! - Page 4

remixedcat · Jul 17, 2012, 06:00 AM

I'm lookin towards the AMPED WIRELESS!!! or another netgear.

caleb · Jul 17, 2012, 06:23 AM

I run OpenWRT on ASUS WL500GP with
- samba 3
- transmission torrent client
Its a pretty leet router to mess with cause the WRT posted here is pretty hardware limited and the firmware is the best their is for such devices IMHO.

james888 · Jul 17, 2012, 08:53 AM

Would it even be worth it to run tomato usb or openWRT on my netgear 3700?

technicks · Sep 16, 2012, 02:40 PM

I also have an WRT54GL but like newtekie1 stated above it stops at 35MB/s.
I have a 50MB/s connection so what would be a nice upgrade?

johnspack · Sep 16, 2012, 06:35 PM

The Asus RT-N16 is a massive upgrade from the 54GL. I still use my 54GL, but only as a repeater now. The N16 has all gigabit ports, and with the massive amount of flash and sytem ram, I can run all kinds of extra apps under Tomato. Got a squid server going, all ip traffic is being logged, using both cifs and jfs that have been re-routed to server shares on my server. You can do so much more with it.

newtekie1 · Sep 16, 2012, 07:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by technicks

I also have an WRT54GL but like newtekie1 stated above it stops at 35MB/s.
I have a 50MB/s connection so what would be a nice upgrade?

I first switched to an E1000, the V1 is compatible with TomatoUSB. But I wanted 5GHz Wireless N, so I upgraded again to an E3000 which is also compatible with TomatoUSB.

You can get the E3000 for $50 off newegg, which is probably one of the best deals ever for such a fully featured router. I don't even think you can come close to that price with any other simultaneous dual-band router not to mention one with a USB port.

And if you are wondering what TomatoUSB is, it is basically what it sounds like, an off-shoot of the Tomato firmware that works with more routers, supports 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wireless N, and supports the USB ports on certain routers. The USB port allows you to do a few things with the router, including using the router as a printer server, connecting a USB drive and using the router as a NAS device or even having the router do all your downloading for you and putting the downloads on the USB attached drive.

technicks · Sep 16, 2012, 08:13 PM

Maybe it's a dumb question but would it not be better to have a router with antenna's on it? Regarding the wireless part.
On my WRT54GL i bought some bigger antenna's and it increased the wireless signal a bit.

newtekie1 · Sep 17, 2012, 12:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by technicks

Maybe it's a dumb question but would it not be better to have a router with antenna's on it? Regarding the wireless part.
On my WRT54GL i bought some bigger antenna's and it increased the wireless signal a bit.

I don't think they are necessary. The E1000 easily covered the same area as my WRT54GL and the WRT54GL had upgraded antennas as well. Now the E3000's 5GHz band covers even more. Yeah, the lack of external antennas are about the only draw back of the E3000, but for $50 it is still a terrific deal and with Wireless N the range is really good.

remixedcat · Sep 17, 2012, 02:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by technicks

Maybe it's a dumb question but would it not be better to have a router with antenna's on it? Regarding the wireless part.
On my WRT54GL i bought some bigger antenna's and it increased the wireless signal a bit.

Hard to find those these days.... a lot of them are making them internal only.... dumb fad.

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