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I'm looking for a good, stable router to sit on the end of a BE connection and serve a shared student house - I hear the BE stock one isn't amazing. It'll likely need to withstand frequent connection rapage and so share bandwidth out effectively. It only needs to be 802.11g, but the throughput needs to be high and reliable.

Don't want to break the bank. I'd be more than happy to install custom firmware on a second hand piece of kit.

Suggestions?
 
Plenty of threads about this situation this week mate; have a read around. :) Personally I'd say stick the Be-supplied SpeedTouch into full bridge modem-only mode and pass it on to a WRT54GL with Tomato RAF Mod on there. Full of win and perfect for your needs. :D
 
Rainmaker said:
Plenty of threads about this situation this week mate; have a read around. :) Personally I'd say stick the Be-supplied SpeedTouch into full bridge modem-only mode and pass it on to a WRT54GL with Tomato RAF Mod on there. Full of win and perfect for your needs. :D
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Had a quick peek at a few threads, but I'm afraid my laziness prevailed :p

Thanks for the heads up. I use a WRT54GL on my cable connection at home with DD-WRT so know it's a good router. Dirt cheap on the bay as well. What does the 'RAF' suffix signify?
 
tim80bwi said:
Had a quick peek at a few threads, but I'm afraid my laziness prevailed :p
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I can't fault your logic bud! :o :D

Thanks for the heads up. I use a WRT54GL on my cable connection at home with DD-WRT so know it's a good router. Dirt cheap on the bay as well. What does the 'RAF' suffix signify?
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It's just a mod of the original Tomato. Tomato is great, but RAF is awesome. It's capable of many more simultaneous connections compared to normal Tomato, (8,192 versus 4,096), and has the SpeedMod addon enabled (normal Tomato doesn't afaik). It is based on a slightly (and only slightly) older Tomato release but it's rock solid, looks great, and works perfectly.

Unlike normal Tomato, Victek's RAF mod also allows you to clock the CPU. :D I put mine to 250MHz (from 200MHz) and it's noticeably quicker, with no extra heat that I can tell. The chip was designed for 250MHz stock, but Linksys dialled it back for some reason. More win. EDIT: Actually here's a comparison table of the releases. Note that ND releases are for certain newer routers only; NOT the WRT. You'll brick it if you try them! I'm actually thinking of selling my WRT (simply don't need it), as well as four or five other routers and an AM200. Time to dig out the digicam and hit MM later in the week, I think. LOL
 
Sounds like a good option. I may have to break my DD-WRT loyalty!
Do give my trust a buzz if you decide to stick it on the MM.

Cheers
 
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