DIY $150 Home "Super" Network

[Salvador]

Buffalo networking gear is awesome! Especially for the price. I've been through most of the name brand stuff (Netgear, Linksys, D-Link, etc..) and it all sucks by comparison.

 

[err]

I have similar setup in my house ... Bufallo w/ DD-WRT rocks !

Anyway here is a quick glance at my setup in my home

1. Motorola Cable Modem from Comcast
2. Bufallo G54 running DDWRT v 0.23 sp2. This router is broadcasting WPA wifi. I also vlan this router so that it has an isolated vlan port.
3. I use this isolated port above and hook it up to my netgear 614 router broadcasting WEP to support my Tivo S2 and Nintendo DS. (The isolated port on Bufallo caused a secure separation on my local LAN)
4. Have an 8 porter netgear 10/100 switch to wire 7 different rooms in my house.
5. Running my own Windows server 2003 Dhcp & DNS server. Also serves as my local file server
6. Running Windows Vista Ultimate version for windows media center sharing.

 

[ironk]

dd-wrt didn't work to well for me, so i tried tomato:

http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato

Tomato appears to be a lot more stable for me, so give it a shot at least.

 

[kevnich2]

Originally posted by: ironk
dd-wrt didn't work to well for me, so i tried tomato:

http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato

Tomato appears to be a lot more stable for me, so give it a shot at least.

Actually some of the features on this look cool. I might have to re-flash my buffalo when I get home and try this out. Looks promising. Anyone else using this, any feedback? I especially like the screenshots of the bandwidth monitor.