[geeks] My network configuration

[Phil Stracchino]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:35:03 -0400
> Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Mar 31, 2007, at 2:59 PM, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>>
>>> The WRT54G isn't that impressive to me. It seems to balk under heavy or
>>> even medium network loads and the WWW interface is often unresponsive 
>>> or
>>> painfully slow.  It seems to really stagger when hit with a lot of
>>> little packets.  It's routing and NAT rules interface sucks, badly.
>> I suggest OpenWRT, provided you have a version of the WRT54G that will 
>> take it.
> 
> Is it faster, or just nicer interface?

It's not necessarily faster, but it's more flexible, more powerful and
more configurable.  I don't think much of the OpenWRT interface, but
DD-WRT is a big improvement.  DD-WRT is, in my experience, also more
stable and easier to configure than OpenWRT.


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