I've decided it's time to kill off the crappy firmware on my router (Linksys Wireless G). What are your experiences with DD-WRT or Tomato? Which do you recommend?

3/6/2009 7:21:46 AM

i'm using ddwrt right now. i'd like to give tomato a shot though..try that.

3/6/2009 7:32:34 AM

I used dd-wrt for years, and the last year for the hell of it i tried tomato. i like the bandwidth graphs and logging tools tomato has, but in terms of performance they're the same to me.

3/6/2009 7:54:47 AM

I tried DD-WRT.

It somehow managed to nuke all routing functionality, though it works well enough as a wireless switch now.

[Edited on March 6, 2009 at 8:04 AM. Reason : I'd never use it again.]

3/6/2009 8:04:26 AM

ddwrt v24 has bandwidth logging now

3/6/2009 8:45:07 AM

I use tomato and I haven't really felt the need to get the more advanced features of ddwrt.

3/6/2009 9:14:35 AM

I too use tomato over dd-wrt. I want pfSense back though.

3/6/2009 11:31:00 AM

dd-wrt for me. i've tried tomato multiple times in the past, dd-wrt just does more.

^i want pfsense again as well

3/6/2009 11:59:29 AM

Been using dd-wrt for the last 4 years or so. The only real problem I ever had was about 6 months ago. It randomly reset itself to the defaults.

3/6/2009 4:15:40 PM

honestly, DD-WRT makes me wish my router had more flash ram.

3/6/2009 4:58:15 PM

DD-WRT on my linksys. Works great, and has waaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy too many options for me to use

3/6/2009 5:16:51 PM

I like the xlink kai feature that comes with the larger builds of dd-wrt. good for playing system link games with random people online.

3/6/2009 7:48:09 PM

I love my dd-wrt set up as repeater.

Hop onto machine, wtf, can't connect to internet (dsl via at&t). No problem, pull out WRT54GL, hook up $30 directional patch panel, point at neighbors, connect lan line to router, browsing!

3/19/2009 10:32:35 AM

tomato >>> dd-wrt

that said, i can't run tomato on my asus router since tomato doesn't yet support wireless-n

3/19/2009 11:19:42 AM

^ What's your reasoning?

Everyone is pretty quick to state which they prefer, but no one takes the time to explain the reasons for their preference.

3/19/2009 12:00:16 PM

it's prettier!

actually, these days, that's probably what it comes down to, except for the whole "tomato doesn't support N yet" thing

really, though, tomato was the first to allow for site scanning (so you could detect and see everyone else's networks through the router interface) and bandwidth monitoring/graphing, and it was an overall smaller firmware for what i considered to be more features that i would use

i don't think that's really the case anymore, and when i installed dd-wrt on my asus, i was pleasantly surprised to find features i didn't think they supported...overall, i think you'll get the same performance out of both on b/g box, though i DO prefer tomato's simpler and cleaner interface better

3/19/2009 12:07:27 PM

I started with DD-WRT, then switched to Tomato.

The reason: I needed to control Quality of Service for a roommate who was downloading more than his share and Tomato seemed more user-friendly in setting that. DD-WRT seemed a bit clunky at times when you would change settings, meaning that it would 'save' a setting but the router wouldn't necessarily respond to the setting until after several reboots. Tomato also seems like a much cleaner interface which is what I was ultimately looking for after QOS.

Also, I could have sworn at one point that I had read about Tomato using less of a RAM footprint, etc. so that was also a contributing factor...whether it was actually different...I'm not sure.

3/19/2009 2:03:33 PM

I just set up DD-WRT mega on a Linksys WRT54G-TM. I'll see how I like it. I chose it over Tomato purely because the installation was easier for my particular router.

3/23/2009 11:52:01 AM