As we speak I am browsing through google and youtube about how tomato works and what it looks like, its features and such. Oh about the QoS thing, it was just something I had to bring up to remind me of the only inconvenience I have with DD WRT, it is nothing that substantial really. It generally comes down to one person having to not be able to do what they want so another can get good performance. A very limited number of application can be controlled by trying to restrict outbound data to control inbound but it take very a large amount of knowledge about the data streams to set the numbers correctly. You can really only control data you send and the problem is almost always data you receive. You pretty much need to use a PC running a firewall like pfsense to be able to use the very advanced QoS options. The simple filter work ok in both dd-wrt and tomato. You need a very fast cpu and even then if the traffic rate is high it will exceed the capacity of the router. The one in tomato is even worse it trys to look inside the packets for strings of data. If you try to use advanced QoS options is will always greatly slow you down. I am just a bit worried because it might not be compatible, a bit of confidence is there because hey, if it says v2 then it i suppose to support v2 right? The memory is what I am also worried about, but there is also an option to download the v2 firmware here: One of the things I want to flash my router with another 3rd party firmware is to learn another platform i am just curious. I tend to always run dd-wrt because I in the past learned how to modify and relink my own images and I am not willing to spend the huge time again to learn another platform. I know a couple of the releases have very special features like dd-wrt has the best support of 3g/4g broadband modems where things like gargoyle is the only one I know that supports hard byte/month caps on traffic. The vast majority of the features are exactly the same. Many people like tomato because it is a little simpler it has fewer options so it is tends to look less confusing. There are very few that can not be recovered.some are a huge pain to recover though. Most routers you can recover from brick state. ![]() Even dd-wrt you must be careful to load the correct image. This gets extremely hard to say since minor variations in the firmware or changes to things like memory cause issues for certain releases.
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