Which is better, Tomato or DD-WRT?

[Doomer]

I've been using DD-WRT for awhile now and have no problems but I see Tomato mentioned so often that I'm beginning to wonder if I might be missing something.

Thanks

 

[kevnich2]

Generally speaking, I find ddwrt to have more features but tomato to be more reliable. I personally like the bw graphs and ip traffic monitoring of tomato better. I can drill down with graphs and see what IP address is utilizing the most traffic real-time, in 24 hrs, weekly, etc.

Either one will honestly work. I would suggest making a backup copy of your settings, then tftp either tomato or ddwrt and try it out and see what you think. Both are better than factory default.

 

[JackMDS]

If the features that you need are available In tomato use because it easy to Flash than Flashing DD-WRT.

Otherwise (beyond "Drama Queening"), it does not matter which one you use.

 

[dealguru]

I prefer Tomato for reliability.

 

[JackMDS]

I prefer Tomato for reliability.

Is this means that you ran on the exact physical Wireless Router DD-WRT for few weeks and Tomato for few weeks with the exact same features On and Tomato did better?

If the answer is yes in what specific way Tomato did better.

If you sat stability please include dat like DD-WRT needed reboot 3 time and Tomato only one (or whatever else you notice in piratical terms).

I am asking this because I might be ignorant in Not seeing the differences between the few Wireless Router that I use Tomato on and the few that I use DD-WRT on.

 

[Lat]

Tomato has a nicer UI (imo), and more control over QoS settings.

DD-WRT has better dev support and has been developed for a wider variety of devices.


I've pretty much always used DD-WRT personally, but it's really up to preference. My new router (Netgear R7000) has an active DD-WRT dev and no Tomato, so it's a no brainer for me really

 

[John Connor]

I've used DD-WRT for years and never had trouble. Not sure if you can input IPtables into Tomato, but that's what I have in DD-WRT's firewall. A butt load of IPtables.

I've seen a lot of people recommend Tomato too, I looked at it, saw the GUI and said, meh.