Shared internet & WRT54GL... Please help

[Roland0]

I live in a shared house with 8 students, at the moment we have a *dire* belkin router that keeps on crashing all the time, needing to be reset (power-cycled whatever!) so we are in need of a new router.

Now a couple of us enojoy playing matches of counterstrike, and other people enjoy downloading *Legal* things on lame-wire (as I have termed Limewire) and bit torrent, two things that I belive aren't *neceserally* mutually exclusive.

However playing in the middle of a match and suddenly getting 500 ping aint great, and nor is being disconnected from the internet because you housemate wants to play computer games.

I had previously seen the D-Link DGL-4300 Gaming Router as the only viable soution to this problem, although a little expensive (cica £100) it had all the features I wanted. I then found out about the Linksys WRT54GL, with its Linux-based OS, and the ability to upgrade to 3rd party firmware, with its 4mb flash memory (DD-WRT etc) and thought that i could use the traffic shaping features of the firmware would reduce the latency caused by low amounts of limewire-age.

My Questions are;

1. Are Traffic shaping features of DD-WRT (frottle?) powerfull enough for me to have a good ping with say 3/4 people downloading on limewre/BT??

2. Are Traffic shaping features of DD-WRT, comparable with that of gamefuel on the D-Link Gaming Router.


IE is it worth getting the D-Link Gaming Router when i am capable of using the WRT54GL's 3rd party firmware?

Could tolien or someone who seems to know please give me some advice Thanks in advance.....

 

[tolien]

Given my WRT's a glorified wireless AP (and it's my 877 that handles the internet connection), I'm hardly the most qualified to comment, but ho hum.

1. Are Traffic shaping features of DD-WRT (frottle?) powerfull enough for me to have a good ping with say 3/4 people downloading on limewre/BT??

Maybe. If they're maxing out, you'll get crazy latency regardless of what's at your end of the connection.
It might help if they're just uploading though...

2. Are Traffic shaping features of DD-WRT, comparable with that of gamefuel on the D-Link Gaming Router.

Having never used either it's hard to say, but they should be near enough.

 

[Roland0]

Cheers tolien,

Well theyre not usually maxing the connection out, they also now know to limit theyre upload. The ping is usually about 100ms so i think that with the addition of some trafic shaping i should really get som nice ping times while other people are downloading!

has anybody here used DD-WRT?

Cheers!