Ask Slashdot: DD-WRT Upgrade To 802.11n? 196
First time accepted submitter krinderlin writes "My home network consists of a Linksys WRT54GL for WAN access and a WRT54G version 8 for a wireless bridge for my Blu-Ray and old XBox 360*. Due to a recent move and coaxial jack placements, I can't run Ethernet to the office, so I'm now looking at about 8 wireless clients at any given time. I'd like to start piecing together a network upgrade to 802.11n, but want to keep the flexibility and power of DD-WRT. So what 802.11n routers do you have with DD-WRT? What would you recommend for PCIe x1 and USB adapters? *Because $100 for a 802.11g adapter is pure insanity."
WNDR-3700v2 (Score:5, Informative)
Tomato (Score:5, Informative)
DD-WRT development is basically dead. There hasn't been an update on their homepage in over a year.
There are unofficial builds in the forums, but even those are at this point old. For example, the "Recommended" version for Broadcom-based devices still includes an ANCIENT release of inadyn that doesn't work with most dynamic DNS providers at this point (nearly all implemented SSL security which breaks with older inadyn.)
Tomato/TomatoUSB are the way to go at this point. (Tomato itself isn't updated much either - TomatoUSB has improved support even for non-USB devices.)
Re:Any functionality from DD-WRT in particular? (Score:4, Informative)
General reaction is DD-WRT is crappy these days. I don't really know.
Not only crappy but a fairly evil project as well. Closed source, deceptive project leaders, software activation.
The tomato project is much better run and does everything that DD-WRT does. I like tomato-USB but there are several other flavors.