[ale] Why Tomato? was Re: I'm very lucky

[Richard Bronosky]

I also greatly appreciate the AJAX interface and web access to JFFS2
http://www.polarcloud.com/tomatofaq#what_is_jffs2 You can see the
interface screens here:
http://lampiweb.com/virtual/Tomato_RAF/admin-jffs2.html

Also, I don't know if it has been corrected, but years ago there was
an issue where if Comcast didn't change my IP within 30 days, DD-WRT
would not update DynDNS and my account would expire. I had to create
my own cron job to work around this. Tomato never gave me that
trouble.

There are no shortage of comparisons where people have converted from
DD-WRT to Tomato (as I did). But as always this has a lot to do with
personal preference and there are those making the inverse argument as
well.

http://www.decimation.com/markw/2007/10/02/dd-wrt-vs-tomato-winner-is-tomato/
http://lifehacker.com/344765/turn-your-60-router-into-a-user+friendly-super+router-with-tomato
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=36&threadid=2282489
http://blog.fourfridays.com/2009/03/01/ddwrt-vs-tomato/
http://www.wrightpcconsulting.com/blog/2007/08/19/tomato-vs-dd-wrt-clear-choice/

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:47 AM, James Sumners<james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tomato just works. The interface is easy to use and understand. The
> QoS rule builder rocks. The real-time bandwidth graphs are extremely
> handy. The default bridge between the wireless and wired networks is
> awesome (my wired Xbox 360 sees my iTunes share on my wireless MacBook
> Pro).
>
> What do you mean by "multiple-AP control features"?
>
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:57 AM, david w. millians<millia at panix.com> wrote:
>>
>> Richard Bronosky wrote:
>>> Easy.
>>> 1. Use ethernet connection for the upgrade, NOT WiFi
>>> 2. Use Tomato firmware instead of DD-WRT.
>>
>> What advantage is there to tomato vs. DD-WRT? I've used it and helped
>> set it up for probably a 100 installs, and it always does fine by me.
>>
>> Now, if it allowed easy, multiple-AP control features, I'd be all over
>> that.
>
>
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