Best and most recently maintained Tomato firmware

[tami]

Hi - been using Tomato and then Shibby and now AdvancedTomato. I love AdvancedTomato's UI but my wireless connectivity keeps dropping on a near daily basis and a reboot of the router fixes it. I'm not sure if it's the firmware or what, but if there's something better out there, I'd like to know what it is so that I can eliminate the firmware as a possibility (maybe my router is just getting bad, but wouldn't it not come back up in a reboot then?). Anyone?

I've got an Asus RT-N66U if that helps.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Hmm, thanks for the heads-up on AdvancedTomato. Is that a commercial spin-off, or is it free? I'm still on Shibby Tomato, it works, most of the time. Multi-WAN support still seems to be somewhat iffy, when you combine it with existing advanced features. For example, I can't seem to get policy-based routing to work quite right in 138.

 

[rsachoc]

I used Merlin's firmware on my AC66U, it also works on yours. I've never had issues and it's rock solid for me.

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[tami]

I used Merlin's firmware on my AC66U, it also works on yours. I've never had issues and it's rock solid for me.

Link

Is that based on Tomato? I'm looking exclusively for Tomato based firmware.

@VirtualLarry and yes, it's free.

 

[rsachoc]

Is that based on Tomato? I'm looking exclusively for Tomato based firmware.

@VirtualLarry and yes, it's free.

Nope, it's based on stock Asus firmware...it's got a bunch of enhancements and updated drivers, etc. If you're set on Tomato, I think the one you're using is considered the most up-to-date, but I don't have any recent experience with Tomato as the last time I used it was on an old router, I think a WRT54G...

 

[razel]

Answer to your title is Advanced Tomato which you know is a FANTASTIC HTML5 UI enhancement of regular tomato. Answer to a 'solid' firmware would be stock ASUS if they still have 2016/2017 updates to your router. Otherwise, it's Merlin. Just be careful with the ASUS firmwares. I'd say mid-2016 is when they began releasing ones that may not be able to install 3rd party firmwares from the web UI. You'll know since the firmware that started with that limitation will be have a warning about it and that means all firmwares after that date have to comply.

You maybe able to still install 3rd party using the emergency .exe method that ASUS still provides, but I haven't chanced that at all with my RT-AC56.

 

[mobrien1181]

I know this is old, but since I was looking for something else and saw this, I thought I would provide the best answer.

"FreshTomato" (freshtomato.org) is currently, to my knowledge, the only consistently maintained distribution. From what I can tell, it was forked from Shibby when he stopped maintaining his fork. There have been a lot of code changes and updated libraries and drivers since then, though, as it has been a couple years since Shibby released an update.

I have had a good experience with FreshTomato so far, and MultiWan seems to be improved, which was the greatest source of instability for me in Shibby.