[SGVLUG] DDWRT vs OpenWRT

[Doug]

I'm going to come hide in your house for the internet lol. Apparently my block is in some weird zone where all we can get is basic dsl,  but I digress. I'm setting up a gbit router for a small business site and I'm going to play around with the *wrts so I'll let you know how it goes, but even over wifi I think the isp bandwith will be the bottleneck speed wise, but your mileage may vary

Dan Buthusiem <dan.buthusiem at gmail.com> wrote:

>Just wondering how many of you have been playing with DDWRT and OpenWRT.
>I've been trying to make the jump to OpenWRT, but I've hit a few snags
>witth the 5 GHz network performance and features.
>
>Seems to me like DDWRT is easier to setup a working WDS mesh. I wasn't able
>to establish a working link at 300 Mbps the way the stock and DDWRT
>firmware could; speeds capped at 150 Mbps. Also, it seemed the signal was
>weaker than DDWRT, and that was with DDWRT's stock settings. Adding in the
>recommended settings for my 5 GHz radio brought a noticeable boost, though
>still not enough to conquer the circuit breaker in the wall between the
>living room and my bedroom. Drat.
>
>Aside from wireless, I was wondering if anyone's been able to setup a load
>balancer with the secondary WAN connection as a failover for when the
>primary WAN goes down. I'm still playing with that, too. I really would
>rather using a Gbit router, rather than buy a 100 Mbps (in my budget)
>router from the likes of Cisco, SonicWall, etc., or building a Vyatta /
>PFsense router with parts lying around. My WAN can spike to 80 Mbps
>(measured over WiFi, no less), and we've been looking at possibly upgrading
>to 100 (only the fastest access to the SGVLUG website for me! haha) at
>home, so I don't want to be frustrated by interface saturation issues.
>
>Sorry for the wall 'o text.
>
>- Dan B.