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#1 Nvyseal

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Posted 16 January 2008 - 12:40 AM

images/news/internet.jpgThere's been a lot of development of open source firmwares, and today we're taking a look at my new favorite, a firmware called Tomato. Tomato does almost everything DD-WRT does—from Wi-Fi signal boosting to Quality of Service bandwidth allocation—in addition to offering a simplified interface chock-full of fancy charts and graphs.

If there's something you want to do with your router, chances are Tomato can do it for you. In particular the bandwidth logging is both attractive and handy, allowing you to track bandwidth usage in real-time, over the last 24 hours, or with daily, weekly, or monthly reports.

Tomato can provide even more granular control over how much bandwidth goes where... and, like the bandwidth reports, it graphs it all.


Full guide with example graphs


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Posted 17 January 2008 - 01:26 AM

Dare i mess with mine...i think it works just fine for me...and if i screw it up my wife would kill me LOL...

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Posted 17 January 2008 - 02:07 AM

DD-WRT works fine for me, my new router barely was turned on before it was "fixed". :giggle:

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Posted 17 January 2008 - 02:41 AM

View PostChristopholofigus, on Jan 16 2008, 05:26 PM, said:

Dare i mess with mine...i think it works just fine for me...and if i screw it up my wife would kill me LOL...

You gotta be careful-
Check the list of supported devices.
Mine says-
"Tomato is not compatible with Linksys WRT54G/GS v5-v7 or newer WRT54G/GS routers"

I have a version 5 WRT54G

A case where older is better.

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Posted 19 January 2008 - 10:05 PM

View PostRoadrunner, on Jan 17 2008, 04:41 AM, said:

You gotta be careful

The Last Bricked one...

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Posted 21 January 2008 - 12:33 AM

Tomato Firmware 1.14.1288 released.........

Changelog:

* Fixed possible cross-site vulnerability in web admin.
* Fixed saving SSL certificate to nvram.
* Fixed problem with NAT Loopback thanks to John M. 'Forwarded-Only' is now the default setting.
* New favicon thanks to David V.
* Microsoft MN-700 ID'd thanks to John F.
* Network Label can now be entered for OpenDNS.
* Upgraded Busybox to 1.9.0.
* Upgrade L7 filters to l7-protocols-2008-01-16.

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