Question about 3rd party firmware N66U

[pawnslinger]

I have been using my new N66U router now for about a week, and I still have the stock, .112, firmware installed. I am pretty happy with it, and I am not one to upgrade or change firmware hastily. But I have been accumulating some shortcomings of the factory firmware... and I was wondering if newer or 3rd party firmware would change things.

One of the things that bothers me, I know it is a rather picky thing, is the units used on the traffic monitor. It shows the bandwidth usage in KBps. And I am constantly having to recalculate to Mbps. Not a big huge thing, but almost all of my other software that I use measures bandwidth in terms of Mbps.

Any of the other firmwares use Mbps??

 

[alternety]

See the asuswrt - Merlin thread above.

 

[DaveMishSr]

You would like Merlin's work then. His newest release is 64k NVRAM enabled, and you can have the traffic monitor report in KB, MB of GB's. It's souped up version of Asus' own firmware. You can get the same flexibility with Tomato but unless you need a lot more features than the stock firmware offers then Merlin's version is the way to go. We are lucky to have him.

 

[pawnslinger]

Cool! Thanks for the replies. I think I will give Merlin's work a try. I like the fact that it is easier to install than Tomato. I am not sure I understand how to install Tomato, so I am somewhat leery of it. But, if I understand correctly, Merlin's AsusWRT installs just like the official factory upgrades.

I like that it allows you the choice of KB, etc.