Tremelune
Occasional Visitor
My Tomato Linksys WRTG is coming with me to Argentina, which gives me the opportunity to upgrade this absolutely kickass setup in my house with something that will do everything just as well, but faster. The most important thing is reliability. This thing went several months without human touch and performed flawlessly. That is very important, in no small part due to the fact that I will be out of the country for a while.
To that end, I'm a bit lost in the future. I researched this a year ago, and forgot everything. Is it worth it to get a switch, a WAP, and some hardware to run pfsense, or should I just find a solid 802.11g/n router that works well with DD-WRT?
My desire to go "separate" is so that I can have all these nifty features, but not worry about hardware compatibility when I need a new piece of the puzzle (10Gb Ethernet, faster wifi, more horsepower for some cool thing in pfsense). Tomato was written by one dude who tired of it, and it only runs on very specific, old shirt (wireless G). I had a WNDR3700 that I thought did everything I needed, but I noticed a few missing features that annoyed me, and it added to my cool-router upgrade frustration (I went back to my Tomato). I guess, considering I've had this G router for five years, I shouldn't worry too much about frequent upgrades...
To that end, I'm a bit lost in the future. I researched this a year ago, and forgot everything. Is it worth it to get a switch, a WAP, and some hardware to run pfsense, or should I just find a solid 802.11g/n router that works well with DD-WRT?
My desire to go "separate" is so that I can have all these nifty features, but not worry about hardware compatibility when I need a new piece of the puzzle (10Gb Ethernet, faster wifi, more horsepower for some cool thing in pfsense). Tomato was written by one dude who tired of it, and it only runs on very specific, old shirt (wireless G). I had a WNDR3700 that I thought did everything I needed, but I noticed a few missing features that annoyed me, and it added to my cool-router upgrade frustration (I went back to my Tomato). I guess, considering I've had this G router for five years, I shouldn't worry too much about frequent upgrades...
