Changing from DG834GT with DGTeam > WRT54GL with Tomato

DJMK4 · 7 Jul 2010 at 15:50

Hi there,

Im a big fan of custom firmwares on routers, I have recently been looking at the WRT54GL with Tomato firmware as I quite like the QoS, VLAN, Bandwidth Monitoring features it offers to.

Now the tweaking tools on the DGteam netgear, I dont really fiddle with as I have found that my speeds are find for me, I have fiddled in the past but at the moment I dont want to swap my 1.5MB/s download for instability.

What I want to find out before I seriously think about getting the linksys is

1) Does anyone have it running on a BE connection, how has it been?

2) Looking at it, it has a Broadcom chipset (like the netgear) so im assuming the performance of the WAN connection is very close.

If someone could let me know

Thanks

Azuse05 · 7 Jul 2010 at 18:16

Eh? 54gl is a router not a modem router, you'll still be using the gt as a modem.

benftl · 7 Jul 2010 at 18:18

I thought that. You could always use the DG834GT in bridge mode, benefiting from the WRT54G's enhanced customisation.

DJMK4 · 7 Jul 2010 at 18:34

OK cool, so ill be getting best of both worlds then

My fault for not reading in to the spec too much

Scope · 7 Jul 2010 at 22:40

benftl said:
I thought that. You could always use the DG834GT in bridge mode, benefiting from the WRT54G's enhanced customisation.

Could you tell me some more about this? I've got a DG834GT (running DGTeam, using the modem side and dhcp) and a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 (running Tomato, Mainly for Wifi, but has 3-4 other devices connected to it, dhcp switched off, using the one on the GT)... I wish I had Qos, which the Buffalo has, but the main device I would like to control does not go through it... How would bridging help? How can I use this to get Qos?

benftl · 7 Jul 2010 at 23:31

Sorry, I meant modem mode. Basically you set the DG834GT to Modem only and your cable router will be in full control, enabling QOS and whatever else you may have. This sounds like what you have already, so why not just connect the 'main device' through the Buffalo?

Scope · 8 Jul 2010 at 12:06

benftl said:
Sorry, I meant modem mode. Basically you set the DG834GT to Modem only and your cable router will be in full control, enabling QOS and whatever else you may have. This sounds like what you have already, so why not just connect the 'main device' through the Buffalo?

Im not sure if it makes a difference, but the Buffalo is in room 1, the 834GT is in room 2, and the server (main device) in room 3, all connected by powerline network.. Obviously everything out to the internet is going out from the GT (modem), however say a download by the server would not go through the Buffalo, but directly to the GT.. So I guess my question is, is it possible to "route" the traffic on the LAN through the Buffalo before reaching the GT?

That way I could configure QoS on the Buffalo to work with all the traffic, not just the devices connected directly to it, or over Wifi..