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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Mike,<br>
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I've used both OpenWRT and dd-wrt. The OpenWRT was very
customizeable and we used it to make a custom ARM firmware for a
networked industrial device. This was a high power ARM5 system
with 600MHz CPU, 16MB flash, and 64MB of RAM, so we had a lot of
room to add custom software & functionality. The firmware I
built wound up being about 8.5MB in size.<br>
<br>
I also had an old Linksys router that for some reason quit working
the way I expected (I don't remember what the problem was, but it
had to do with wireless & authentication I think). Before I
threw it away I checked if it was on the openwrt/ddwrt
compatibility lists, and I decided to try putting dd-wrt on it and
see if it started working again.<br>
<br>
It did. Everything worked perfectly again. I was REALLY
impressed with dd-wrt. It was amazing how much functionality and
how many features they crammed into something like 2MB of flash.
dd-wrt seemed like it was 100x more powerful than the old Linksys
firmware. I highly recommend it. Given the hardware limitations
of my router there isn't a lot of room to tinker with it like I
did with OpenWRT, but the software out-of-the-box was powerful
& flexible enough to do whatever I needed without my having to
rebuild it.<br>
<br>
Give it a try, you'll probably like it.<br>
<br>
Jim<br>
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Jim Ockers, P.E., P.Eng. (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ockers@ockers.net">ockers@ockers.net</a>)
Contact info: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ockers.net/">http://www.ockers.net/</a>
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On 3/2/13 6:42 AM, Mike Bean wrote:<br>
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<div>Brief question. I burned out another router it seems, but
before I toss it in the garbage, I thought I'd try out one of
the FOSS router firmwares. Thought I'd ask if anyone has
experience with them and could make any recommendations what
gets the like, what doesn't? Just based on the 2 min research
it looks like ddwrt's probably the way to go, but I'd be
interested in other options if there are better ones.<br>
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Mike<br>
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