Ask Slashdot: Best Flash-Friendly Router To Replace Aging WRT54GS? 334
New submitter Juggler00 writes "I have been running DD-WRT (v24-sp2) on my Linksys WRT54GS for a couple of years now. I'm now finding that the box cannot keep up with the requests/requirements I have for it--it simply does not have the MIPS/horsepower. I am turning to the collective wisdom of the Slashdot community for 2 things: what alternative firmware should I be using (DD-WRT, Tomato, OpenWRT, or something else?) and based on the answer to this question, what is the suggested router to purchase to flash? My software requirements include DynDNS client, DHCP server providing option 66, static IP assignment based on MAC, port forwarding, and basic QoS (bittorrent lowest priority). For hardware, I'm looking for GigE ports and 802.11N (5.8GHz not a requirement)."
Re:Jedi? (Score:5, Insightful)
If this has anything to do with those stupid prequels, then this is a bad joke
Why? You can make jokes based on bad movies, especially the Star Wars prequels. Just about all they're good for.
Re:How many threads like this? (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't know about that. At least from the view of official builds, DD-WRT has stagnated. The last official release was more than three years ago and the last pre-SP2 release was more than two years ago.
Even the unofficial builds aren't much of an improvement to me. I was using a couple of different builds to get IPv6 functionality and while it worked, I had problems with odd setting resets or services just stopping for no clear reason. Ultimately, I decided to just go with a new DLink router because it provided the functionality that I wanted and pretty much Just Worked. No messing with scripts, no tinkering with poorly-documented settings. It just worked like it was supposed to. (Well, mostly. There's an issue where .11n connectivity breaks, but .11g still works, but that's far less irritating as there's an effective fallback that works.)
I understand the desire to have control over the firmware, as I ran OpenWRT or DD-WRT for several years. I'm also not averse to installing things of questionable stability, as I use Fedora for most of my Linux stations. I enjoyed what I was doing for a while and I learned some things on how the services worked, but it became more of a distraction where I was spending time fixing issues instead of learning other things.
Re:Jedi? (Score:3, Insightful)
You can make jokes about how bad the movies are, but you can't make jokes requiring deep knowledge of the movies themselves. Making in-jokes requiring deep knowledge of a movie is only done when you can rightfully assume the crowd you're talking to is a fan of the movie, and has seen it many times and would be very familiar with it. So in this forum, a joke involving the lines "You will never find a greater hive of scum and villainy", or "Game over man! Game over!" should go over well, because it's probably safe to assume that most people here have seen A New Hope and Aliens many times. But Making a joke around geeks/nerds involving trivia from a star wars prequel is a lot like making a joke around that same crowd involving trivia from Battlefield: Earth, as far as I'm concerned.
Re:Jedi? (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Jedi? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Jedi? (Score:3, Insightful)
So, if I'm following you correctly, because you think the movies were bad, that means that no jokes requiring knowledge of them should ever be made, on the assumption that because you dislike them, nobody else liked them either, and thus nobody is familiar with them?
The Prequels, for whatever opinions you may hold of their quality, SOLD TICKETS. They are among the highest grossing films of all time. Hell, Episode 1 and Episode 3 (the one which the joke in question references) both outgrossed the originals.
People saw these movies.
Your analogy falls flat on it's face right there. Battlefield earth grossed $29m worldwide. Episode 3 Grossed $848m worldwide.