I bought the Trendnet TEW-432BRP router about two and a half years ago. Initially the wireless was extremely flaky, as was its ability to maintain internet connectivity. After I flashed it with the newest firmware (official, at the time), most of my problems went away. it would occasionally lose its connection to the internet (very occasionally), but it was fine aside from that.
About a week ago, all hell broke loose, it's been dropping wireless and internet connections like there's no tomorrow and nothing helps. I've tried powering it off overnight, power-cycling, soft-restarting, everything. Since I'm gonna have to flash the firmware either way (or buy a new router), I figured I may as well try Tomato or DD-WRT which I hear can work miracles on what seems to be the most useless of routers.
Does anyone have any guides on how to do that? Any recommendations for which particular version I can/should use? Is it even worth it, or should I just upgrade to the newest revision of the official firmware and pray that it works?
Alternatively, if you think that I just shouldn't bother, can anyone recommend a cheap, reliable 802.11g router? I need very basic functionality: port forwarding, WPA2, internet connection sharing and ability to connect to DSL using an external modem.
Thanks a lot.
About a week ago, all hell broke loose, it's been dropping wireless and internet connections like there's no tomorrow and nothing helps. I've tried powering it off overnight, power-cycling, soft-restarting, everything. Since I'm gonna have to flash the firmware either way (or buy a new router), I figured I may as well try Tomato or DD-WRT which I hear can work miracles on what seems to be the most useless of routers.
Does anyone have any guides on how to do that? Any recommendations for which particular version I can/should use? Is it even worth it, or should I just upgrade to the newest revision of the official firmware and pray that it works?
Alternatively, if you think that I just shouldn't bother, can anyone recommend a cheap, reliable 802.11g router? I need very basic functionality: port forwarding, WPA2, internet connection sharing and ability to connect to DSL using an external modem.
Thanks a lot.
