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#1 User is offline   kdyer 

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Posted 19 June 2007 - 07:34 PM

I have an older Linksys WRT54G (Version 2) and I have recently applied the "Tomato" firmware to it. It seems better than the stock Firmware that comes from Linksys?

What is the consensus of the firmwares that are available for the WRT54G?
  • DD-WRT
  • FreeWRT
  • HyperWRT (official)
  • HyperWRT Thibor
  • OpenWRT
  • Tarifa
  • X-Wrt

Thanks,

Kent


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Posted 20 June 2007 - 12:35 AM

I'm using v4.20.8 - HyperWRT 2.1b1+tofu6.2 version for my WRT54G, and when I saw that post I tried to find the site and community dedicated to this router, but was unlucky. I can't find it in my favorite list anywhere.

Now that you've mentioned it, I'd like to update my firmware although I'm very satisfied with this version.

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Posted 20 June 2007 - 05:06 AM

View PostN1K, on Jun 20 2007, 09:35 AM, said:

Now that you've mentioned it, I'd like to update my firmware although I very satisfied with this version.


If it ain't broke, don't fix it! :P

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Posted 20 June 2007 - 08:26 AM

i toss my vote in for dd-wrt... i've tried a bunch of other firmwares, but always came back to it

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Posted 20 June 2007 - 09:06 AM

I too use DD-WRT. Fast and flexible, plus lots of extra features and controls. The navigation is far better than HyperWRT too.

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Posted 20 June 2007 - 01:44 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G#Third-...rmware_projects

I use Thibor's HyperWRT and am very happy with it.

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Posted 20 June 2007 - 07:55 PM

View PostN1K, on Jun 20 2007, 01:35 AM, said:

I'm using v4.20.8 - HyperWRT 2.1b1+tofu6.2 version for my WRT54G, and when I saw that post I tried to find the site and community dedicated to this router, but was unlucky. I can't find it in my favorite list anywhere.

Now that you've mentioned it, I'd like to update my firmware although I very satisfied with this version.


HyperWRT is available from - http://www.thibor.co.uk/

Thanks for all of the posts in response to my question!

Kent

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Posted 20 June 2007 - 08:07 PM

I also use DD-WRT.

But right now I'm p***ed off at DD-WRT since my router reset its self removing ALL my settings for no reasion at all a few days ago.

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Posted 21 June 2007 - 01:55 AM

This page is preety nice and hosts almost every firmware that exists for our beloved router. :thumbup
http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php

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Posted 21 June 2007 - 09:50 AM

Yeah, that site is great for WRT news. I especially like their tracker and comparsion pages.

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Posted 28 June 2007 - 04:23 AM

I'm using Tomato right now, and having no troubles whatsoever! Over 4 months of uptime before I upgraded to v1.07! :thumup

I had a scary experience with DD-WRT... the router seemed to work fine, but then just got slower, and slower...and slower. Ultimately, I couldn't do anything on the network. WebGUI was unavailable, internet connectivity was out. Oddly enough, the DHCP server was working just fine. I could connect and disconnect to the network - wired and wireless - without any trouble. I tried hard resetting it, no dice. I unplugged it, and tried again the next morning, and finally I was able to restor a different firmware on there.

I've had no issues with Thibor or Tomato. *touch wood*

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Posted 28 June 2007 - 09:44 AM

Hello

Is a firmware exists for WAG54 SRX200 ?

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Posted 28 June 2007 - 11:49 AM

View PostZxian, on Jun 28 2007, 06:23 AM, said:

I'm using Tomato right now, and having no troubles whatsoever! Over 4 months of uptime before I upgraded to v1.07! :thumup

I had a scary experience with DD-WRT... the router seemed to work fine, but then just got slower, and slower...and slower. Ultimately, I couldn't do anything on the network. WebGUI was unavailable, internet connectivity was out. Oddly enough, the DHCP server was working just fine. I could connect and disconnect to the network - wired and wireless - without any trouble. I tried hard resetting it, no dice. I unplugged it, and tried again the next morning, and finally I was able to restor a different firmware on there.

I've had no issues with Thibor or Tomato. *touch wood*

that issue was caused because the firmware wasn't setup to handle a large amount of simultaneous connections by default. Once you go in and increase the settings on that (steps available on their wiki), everything started working like a charm again. I ran into the exact same thing. I believe they have resolved it an update or 2 ago

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Posted 28 June 2007 - 02:21 PM

But the problem stuck around even after leaving it off for 5 minutes, and then doing a hard reset! The entire unit was unresponsive for about an hour (with various lengths of time being unpowered) before I gave up for the night and left it unplugged. Finally, 6 hours later, I was able to get a WebGUI from it and flash back to Thibor (which I used at the time).

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Posted 02 July 2007 - 04:28 AM

HyperWRT Thibor is an excellent upgrade, but Tomato is even better.

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Posted 02 July 2007 - 01:32 PM

I used to have one of those routers, using D-Link's newest Firmware. Since then I have replaced it with a Linksys Wireless-G router.

Using the newest update, I had an issue playing Counter-Strike, or actually even connecting to Steam at all. When I would try and log in, it would tell me "Could not connect to Steam network." But, when I would type in a wrong password "Invalid Password." So..... it wouldn't connect, but it knew when I had a wrong password. This went on for a few weeks. Yes, I had all the ports forwarded, and even tried placing myself in the DMZ. No dice.

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