Decent router required

Gangster

Gangster

Gangster

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Hey guys

Getting fed up of not being able to configure my network properley with certain Belkin/Netgear products.

I've heard a lot about the Linksys WRT54G.

I've head that great things can be configured using Tomato firmware? but I'm not 100% what benefits that gives.

I'm basically looking to have a router that can be configured easily. I'd like features such as viewing exactly what IPs (comptuers) are connected to the network (inc wireless), the usage per computer and stuff like that.

I'd also like stuff where you can restrict access to certain apps, ports etc and narrowing it down by computer.

Can it also do Gigabit?

I've seen a few on their website, but I'm avoiding the 'flash looking' ones as I've just run into trouble with them before and found out they're not really configureable at all.


Thanks guys, apologies for my noobness on Networking!

Hope you can help :)
 
thanks marv :) Ideally looking for the linksys though, its always popping up everywhere around the net so seems to be king of the hill in terms of routers... anyone with a WRT54G that could help mention what features the additional firmwares give you?
 
I have a WRT54G but havent used it since we left Virgin, about a year ago.

Tomato is a great firmware and fairly sure it will do all those features you mentioned with the exception of gigabit interfaces.

I keep meaning to pick up an external ADSL modem so I can use my WRT54G again but keep forgetting.
 
I used a wrt54g (with ddwrt) + am200 modem on my bethere connection and it was excellent, I only swapped over to my netgear dg834gt to improve my sync speeds, the management ability on the wrt54g using DDWRT was excellent and I do miss some of the more advanced options.

WRT54g isn't gigabit and the easiest way to achieve this would be to uplink it to a gigabit switch.
 
I'm running a WRT54G, great router and even better with Tomato. Alas it's starting to show it's age a bit with only 10/100 wired ports and G wifi.

Benefit wise you've got QoS, bandwidth monitoring, OpenVPN, packages such as TinyProxy, SSH login/tunnelling, bridging, wifi parameter tweaking like power output... the list goes on.

I'm looking at replacing my WRT54G with a Linksys WRT320N, which runs WRT. The old WRT54G will be in the MM in the not-too-distant if you're interested. :)
 
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