mordenkainen
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Also you may want to drop your max connections down to something way lower then 10,000. 10,000 connections is going to hurt your speed not help it.
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That's hilarious. If you think a POS router with 4MB of RAM (horribly anemic, even by low end router standards) has performance even remotely approaching the same ballpark as even the lowest end Cisco router you're nuts.wrt54g hacked with dd-wrt firmware.... all the features and reliability of a $600 router for 1/10 the price!
i would recommend a 2621 it will give you 2 10/100 ethernet ports so you know your getting the most out of your connection
3620 is better looking.
That's hilarious. If you think a POS router with 4MB of RAM (horribly anemic, even by low end router standards) has performance even remotely approaching the same ballpark as even the lowest end Cisco router you're nuts.
A $60 Zyxel X-550 or $100 Dlink DGL-4300 will blow away the WRT54G (DD-WRT does not increase performance, BTW). The WRT54G can only sustain a small handful of simultaneous connections - even downloading one torrent can bring it to its knees.
Thank god I don't have SP2. Sure it's to 'protect me' but I believe I'd be a lot better off with a true hardware firewall that is properly configured with XP SP1 and latest patches then an exposed SP2 system. I've encountered more issues with systems that have SP2 than SP1, I refuse to install SP2 for as long as I have my system.
What would an expensive cisco router have that a computer with m0n0wall doesn't have? Why would an IT person buy a cisco router if they could just put an old computer to use? Can you turn a computer into a switch? Like use a 386 and put in like 5 ethernet cards so that you can avoid using a hub? Or, because gigabit is expensive and finding a decent gigabit ethernet switch is difficult, you could take a few GIGe cards and stick them into a faster machine? I mean how much does it cost to get a decent gigabit ethernet switch? (Most that I've found can't forward large frames and generally perform poorly)
I've used other routers with stock firmware and DD-WRT and the performance was identical. Even the experts on DD-WRT's forums told me that DD-WRT generally offers no performance increase - only vastly increased features.unless you've used the wrt with stock firmware (horrible) as well as dd-wrt, as well as other higher end routers, your opinion is a little lacking.
You're totally wrong. I have experience with all levels of routers, from the cheapest consumer routers to big, expensive rackmount cisco hardware.also i don't think you would be making these comments if you had the experience.. im not saying its going to be better than a $2000 rack mount setup, but bang for the buck, NOTHING comes close
After several hours, I have to reboot IPCop because it stops allowing PPTP traffic!
You aren't using SP2?
You know, you are not REQUIRED to use the ICF with Windows...
^ all i know is that it was horrible with the stock firmware, and flawless since i flashed it... i can load it through the roof with as many torrents and as many connections as i can throw at it and it doesn't flinch.. what more would anyone need at home?
Interesting complaints on the commercialization of DD-WRT:
http://www.bitsum.com/about-ddwrt.htm
So the x86 version must be purchased?
I ASSURE you that ddwrt will meet your needs. Get a whr-g54s and give it a shot. I have a ddwrt router running at 216Mhz with seven clients including two wireless bridges, running 1000 concurrent bittorrent connections, with packetshaping (QOS) enabled as multiple clients may be running WoW or skype, and load never goes over 0.4. It never slows down or gives me any trouble, and uptime is measured in months.
Flat out, you don't need more power for a home or SOHO LAN unless you're setting up a point to point VPN.
Don't believe me? Go ahead and buy a used cisco off ebay or setup an old linux box to do it. If you enjoy the exercise, more power to you. But it just isn't necessary.
Number one, this article isn't 100% accurate, number 2, the guy needs to eat, don't he?
Broadcom stuff is free, x86 is much more powerful, so its for sale.
The source is still available, where's the problem?
LOL..... all I did was post an interesting link and ask a question. I never indicated any position on the issues whatsoever.
Somebody mentioned the x86 version and I was curious if it does indeed need to be purchased. So is that true?
It does seem a bit "odd" to me that the guy hacks firmware that he did not write, does not belong to him, and now he's selling it. I suppose if the GPL license allows for that, fine. I really don't care as I won't be buying it anyway.
Smoothwall all the way buddy!!
Nope, I know it's the router... I had another router disabled and setup as a hub, so I took that out and hooked it up, it's better, kind of, worse in other ways, some POS netgear router..
Bleh... Is 300 connections to a router via bittorrent too much? I setup bittorrent so that it had a max of 10K connections and 300 per torrent. Would a monowall firewall beable to handle this number of connections? How fast of a machine would I need? It appears that the more connections you have to your router/firewall, the higher the demands go up?
the x86 version of DD-WRT is free without wireless and free to register a full version at least once.Im in the same boat as the OP, i live in a flat with several people who are big p2p users. We have been through 3 commercial routers and found that they basically dont cut the mustard. I have a spare box lying around (athlon xp 2000+, 512mb ddr) and was wondering what would be the best router distro to put on it.
We dont need any fancy features, all we do need is DHCP and some form of encryption (WEP, WPA)
Iv heard a few distros being tossed around in this thread (smoothwal, m0n0wall, endian, ipcop) and basically just want to know which is easiest to set up and maintain as we arnt that tech 'savy'.
Just as a side note: we are currently using a belkin F5D7231-4 and pardon my french but its quite frankly crap, our biggest grief with it is that it won't hold a wireless connection for more than a few minuets, every couple of minuets it will just drop us, so if we are in the middle of a download it will stop, or even more annoyingly for me if i try to game i get disconnected from servers after a few minuets. Id recommend people stay away from this model.
Not sure how many times I've got to say this in a single thread. You people just don't listen. The problem isn't with the hardware, it's with the software. Consumer routers are way more than fast enough to route 1000s of p2p connections. I have mine doing over 1000 with QOS enabled!Most consumer class routers can't handle more than 200-300 IP connections at once.
I did that.If you get a $35 buffalo whr-g54s, install ddwrt on it, and tune the various timeouts via the wiki link I posted a page or two ago, it will FIX your problems. It won't slow down, it won't freeze up, and you won't have to reboot it, EVER.
All I can say is that this doesn't fit my experience, or those of my friends and coworkers, most of us VERY heavy bittorrent users. We all swear by ddwrt and think it's the best thing since sliced bread. Maybe your ddwrt router had broken hardware somehow.Yes, it was set up correctly. Yes, I made the connection entry tweaks.
i will never recommend smoothwall ever again, the devs are the biggest pricks... i reported a problem with one of the drivers not setting the duplex correctly on a fiber nic card... and they basically told me to go fuck myself
requires a wireless card with an Atheros chipset.