I now have problems with this router (Formerly: I'm thinking of getting the linksys WRT54GL router)

[avi85]

If you've had a good/bad experience with this router please let me know.

Edit: see new post on 09/03/06 (or maybe 09/02/06 where some of you live).

 

[InlineFive]

I have the WRT54GL v1.1 with DD-WRT v23 SP1 and I love it. I have had no problems with it. And it is based off of the WRT54G v4 which is very well liked.

 

[JackMDS]

If you want to Flash 3rd party firmware and use the extra features that it provides the WRT54L is the best Entry Level device.

The first on the Table is HyperWRT + Tibor ( http://www.thibor.co.uk/#downloads ), it is the easiest to deal with and it is based on the original Linksys firmware.

If what you would like to do what is included in (HyperWRT + Tibor), I would recommend it as a first choice.

Otherwise, choose another the one that fits better your needs.

http://www.linksysinfo.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=31

Otherwise without Flashing the Buffalo WHR-G54 is a better device.

http://www.buffalotech.com/products/pro...detail.php?productid=115&categoryid=29

I do not know the pricing in Israel, but in the USA the Buffalo WHR-G54 is less expensive than the WRT54L.

http://www.provantage.com/buffalo-technology-whr-hp-g54~7BFLO022.htm

:sun:

 

[avi85]

If I don't load other firmware on it will it be a crappy router?
and if so, how do I pick which firmware to load?

 

[avi85]

Originally posted by: InlineFive
I have the WRT54GL v1.1 with DD-WRT v23 SP1 and I love it. I have had no problems with it. And it is based off of the WRT54G v4 which is very well liked.

I was browsing the DD-WRT site and something is unclear to me, this firmware will be compatible with all routers? if not than which?

Please bear with me people, I haven't upgraded my router for about 4 years so I don't know anything about the current market.

If possible maybe someone could explain this whole routers being linux based and being able to load different firmwares on to it. (BTW does this void the warranty?)

 

[helppls]

Originally posted by: avi85

Originally posted by: InlineFive
I have the WRT54GL v1.1 with DD-WRT v23 SP1 and I love it. I have had no problems with it. And it is based off of the WRT54G v4 which is very well liked.

I was browsing the DD-WRT site and something is unclear to me, this firmware will be compatible with all routers? if not than which?

Please bear with me people, I haven't upgraded my router for about 4 years so I don't know anything about the current market.

If possible maybe someone could explain this whole routers being linux based and being able to load different firmwares on to it. (BTW does this void the warranty?)

Yeah, it voids the warranty no question. If you're not careful you will "brick" your router.

Look at the wiki link at dd-wrt.com (up top with the other main links). You'll find a list of supported and recommended devices there. The GL is supported, as well as the Buffalo. The Buffalo has 14mb of flash memory to play with, I think the GL only has 8 (not sure). Based on that and price, I prefer the Buffalo.

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: helppls

Originally posted by: avi85

Originally posted by: InlineFive
I have the WRT54GL v1.1 with DD-WRT v23 SP1 and I love it. I have had no problems with it. And it is based off of the WRT54G v4 which is very well liked.

I was browsing the DD-WRT site and something is unclear to me, this firmware will be compatible with all routers? if not than which?

Please bear with me people, I haven't upgraded my router for about 4 years so I don't know anything about the current market.

If possible maybe someone could explain this whole routers being linux based and being able to load different firmwares on to it. (BTW does this void the warranty?)

Yeah, it voids the warranty no question. If you're not careful you will "brick" your router.

Look at the wiki link at dd-wrt.com (up top with the other main links). You'll find a list of supported and recommended devices there. The GL is supported, as well as the Buffalo. The Buffalo has 14mb of flash memory to play with, I think the GL only has 8 (not sure). Based on that and price, I prefer the Buffalo.

Well if you consider that the largest firmware file is usually 3-4MB this isn't a groundbreaking difference.

 

[Special K]

I have a WRT54GL. I have not yet tried to use any of the 3rd party firmwares, but the router has otherwise been fine.

 

[helppls]

Originally posted by: InlineFive

Originally posted by: helppls

Originally posted by: avi85

Originally posted by: InlineFive
I have the WRT54GL v1.1 with DD-WRT v23 SP1 and I love it. I have had no problems with it. And it is based off of the WRT54G v4 which is very well liked.

I was browsing the DD-WRT site and something is unclear to me, this firmware will be compatible with all routers? if not than which?

Please bear with me people, I haven't upgraded my router for about 4 years so I don't know anything about the current market.

If possible maybe someone could explain this whole routers being linux based and being able to load different firmwares on to it. (BTW does this void the warranty?)

Yeah, it voids the warranty no question. If you're not careful you will "brick" your router.

Look at the wiki link at dd-wrt.com (up top with the other main links). You'll find a list of supported and recommended devices there. The GL is supported, as well as the Buffalo. The Buffalo has 14mb of flash memory to play with, I think the GL only has 8 (not sure). Based on that and price, I prefer the Buffalo.

Well if you consider that the largest firmware file is usually 3-4MB this isn't a groundbreaking difference.

Well, I said "I prefer," and not "you will prefer." There is a significant difference for me because I use the router for webhosting. I also suspect that the extra space is useful for other features that I haven't discovered yet.

 

[avi85]

I got this router a couple of weeks ago and it seems to suck at P2P apps I'm using bitcomet and when I limit max connections per download to 25 and max simultaneous downloads to 4 my connection gets all flakey and I can't surf the net, I also had a ping constantly being sent to my router and it didn't get a response about 1 out of 3 times, when I change max downloads to 3 the my connection gets better and the pings get a response about 19 out of 20 times. basically more than 75 or so simultaneous connections craps out my router.

What can I do???

Would changing the firmware to dd-wrt increase it's ability to handle multiple simultaneous connections? is there some firmware out there that is even better than dd-wrt?


UPDATE: I took out the old linux box I had been using before and put it back instead of the router and now I'm downloading 8 things with 100 connections each and everything is going smooth but the reason I got the router was to replace my noisy energy consuming linux box router btw the linux box uses an average of 2.5% of the CPU (a 733MHz coppermine) so it doesn't seem to make sense to me that the router can't handle that traffic, unless it has to do with the fact that the linux box has 256MB of RAM although it only uses 40-50MB of it.


Another update: as more connections were made, CPU usage went up to about 3-3.5% and memory usage went up to about 50-60MB, but the router should still be able to handle this, no?

Yet another update: I checked, and it turns out that this router only has 16MB of RAM, could that be my bottleneck?

 

[cmetz]

avi85, try DD-WRT to start. OpenWRT is better if you're familiar with Linux. Disable and strip-out every feature you don't need, to free back up some memory. The Linksys firmware is okay, not great, and varies a lot version to version.

75 connections sounds doable to me, but you're definitely pushing these things beyond SOHO capacity.

 

[ShawnD1]

You really shouldn't have purchased a WRT54G. Mine has trouble broadcasting more than 20 feet (my neighbor's wireless has stronger signal strength than my router in the next room). On top of that the QoS doesn't work at all. I did some google searching to get some help with the QoS and it seems like thousands of people are having problems with QoS for VOIP in particular.

Reading over all those forums it always comes to the same conclusion - you need to buy custom firmware for about $20 if you want this router to work properly.

 

[avi85]

I installed DD-WRT yesterday (almost bricked the router, had to update firmware with tftp) and I could not connect to the internet for the life of mine so I finally reverted back to the linksys firmware, my settings are pretty straightforward so it's gotta be one of the countless extra options in the DD-WRT that is not letting me connect, this is a screenshot of my settings and for some reason they don't work in DD-WRT, if anyone has an idea why, please let me know.