DD-wrt vs asus firmware?

[SuperMiguel]

So i just installed DD-wrt on mine yesterday and it seems to give me better speeds, wireless and wired... Any one has any experience with the dd-wrt firmware for this router?

 

[DaveMishSr]

So i just installed DD-wrt on mine yesterday and it seems to give me better speeds, wireless and wired... Any one has any experience with the dd-wrt firmware for this router?

I have not tried DD-WRT yet. I did flash it to the router I am now using as a media bridge but I never used it as my router. I don't see any need as I am fine with 354.29 Beta. I stream HD video and I just downloaded The Lucky One from DirecTV's on demand service. When I went back to my bedroom to check on the download it was finished about 40 minutes later so it must have download a 2 hour HD movie in about 30 minutes streaming from my router to a Linksys/Cisco WUMC710 AC Media Bridge. I have a Samsung BluRay player connected to that media bridge also and Netflix/Hulu never buffer. I don't need any of the advanced features on DD-WRT so I figure why bother? If it ain't broke then don't fix it, right?

 

[Pericynthion]

So i just installed DD-wrt on mine yesterday and it seems to give me better speeds, wireless and wired... Any one has any experience with the dd-wrt firmware for this router?

Yep - I ran it for a week or so whilst I was troubleshooting a radio issue. Seemed to be fine, but to be honest probably no faster than the latest ASUS-Merlin beta build (which has the beta wireless drivers).

The one thing it was useful for, was doing more specific VLAN port configurations, but its a very specific use case.

For me the missing functionality of AI-cloud was the killer, and I had this nasty problem with some wireless clients using 802.11n/WPA2-AES.

Certain specific clients (normally embedded things like wireless webcams etc) failed to authenticate using AES and I had to back them down to WPA or TKIP. I should add that this isn't a specific issue with the 66U build, I think its a more generic issue on the WPA scheme in DD-WRT as I had the same issue when running it a while ago on a WNDR3700.

Dont get me wrong, Brainslayer does a great job on the code - but there are always some niggling things in there that prevent it being a painless experience.

 

[SuperMiguel]

Whats the difference between merlin fw and the asus one?

 

[Pericynthion]

Rather than being a completely different software set, the Merlin build is basically a 'patched' ASUS build.

Merlin takes the ASUS opensource firmware and fixes niggling little bugs, enhances / updates features etc. The key difference is that its ASUS core under the hood.

I strongly recommend it as the best of both worlds.. (active development cycles, but vendor provided firmware)

Release info here;

http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=7846