Has there been any tests on routers shipped with DD-WRT?

[willmatt]

Buffalo Technologies is shipping routers with alternate firmware choices, one being 'DD-WRT" and the other being proprietary "User Friendly Firmware". Has anyone compared the same router with each firmware, to determine if there is a difference in performance between each firmware. The question is, can a manufacture fine tune DD-WRT, to perform as well as or better than proprietary firmware, with their product?

 

[thiggins]

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/31521-buffalo-wzr-hp-ag300h-reviewed

I have not done any A/B testing with and without DD-WRT or any other alternative distro.

In general, DD-WRT's focus is feature enhancement, not performance.

 

[TonyH]

Hi,
And switching back and forth between two f/w is not easy.

 

[sm00thpapa]

I played with DD-WRT on my WRT54G and WRT54GL. It seems DD-WRT had reduced wi-fi range compared to the stock Linksys firmware.

 

[azazel1024]

The little I have seen, that is generally the case. DD-WRT, Tomato and Open WRT generally perform at least a little worse in terms of range/speed than the firmware that comes on the routers.

You do get a lot more features and possibly better security (maybe/possibly/ DD-WRT doesn't seem to have a great track record of closing vulns and a lot of distros for older routers haven't seen much in the way of updates in a long time).