Networking upgrade - WRT54GL :: semicomplete.com

Networking upgrade - WRT54GL

Posted Thu, 03 Jan 2008

A few days ago, I noticed that for whatever reason my net4501 box was seemingly incapable of routing packets from comcast to the local lan at faster than 800KB/sec. If I removed some PF rules (such as scrubbing) I could get 900KB/sec, but even still 100% of the cpu was consumed by interrupts (as reported by top(1)).

So, I went to Fry's and picked up a WRT54GL. Got it home, installed dd-wrt on it, and am now happy. PowerBoost (Comcast's "here's lots of bandwidth for the first few seconds of your packet stream") works, and I can download at full 8mbit (1MB/sec) as I am supposed to. Sweet.

This frees up my Soekris net4501 box for new projects. Bonus :)

Comments: 2 | Link to this post | posted at: 01:10

Tags: wrt54gl, dd-wrt, networking, soekris

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Bob wrote at Fri Jan 4 05:22:53 2008...

You should try the Tomato firmware for the WRT54GL. I've been running dd-wrt for a while when I decided to try something new, and the speeds I've been getting with Tomato are a little less than double what I've been able to get with dd-wrt - and the access restrictions work without rebooting the router every 2 days...

http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato

Jordan Sissel wrote at Sat Jan 5 00:51:13 2008...

I haven't had any trouble with dd-wrt other than the first time I rebooted it many of the characters on the webserver came up as random binary strings. I don't use any fancy features yet. The most complex config I'll use is probably dmz and port-natting.

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