Router Firmware

[Not Bman]

I have a WRT54GL router and have been using the latest default firmware for it for quite some time. I am in the mood to change, here so many good things about the Tomato Firmware and the DD-WRT Firmware.

So I am wondering your opinions on which one is better, which should I try?

 

[LordOfLA]

Try both 🙂

It is my understanding that DD-WRT has more features however.

 

[Not Bman]

You don't have an opinion on either? lol

 

[Xie]

I run Tomato on mine and it works great, but never tried DD-WRT.

 

[Not Bman]

So I went and installed tomato, going to try both probably.

Any cool things I should do with tomato?

 

[Admiral Michael]

I've used and like DDWRT, try that first 😛

 

[LordOfLA]

You don't have an opinion on either? lol

My cable provider gave me an intergrated cable modem/router by netgear that doesn't support custom firmware ( can be switched to modem only though) otherwise I'd be using DD-WRT until I find a job that lasts long enough to enable me to afford the additional electricity costs to run a second pc and pfsense 24/7

 

[Not Bman]

How do you input your own custom DNS with Tomato? Seems more complicated then the default firmware.

 

[Xie]

How do you input your own custom DNS with Tomato? Seems more complicated then the default firmware.

It's under: Basic -> Network -> Static DNS

 

[Not Bman]

Thanks, that is where I thought it was, just needed to make sure.