I was having trouble with DNS and discovered the stock firmware had issues several months ago. Since I had wanted to go to ddwrt or one of the other similar firmwares I took this as an opportunity to do that. During the process I also found I had a bad capacitor - a known issue with this model and fixed that.
After a couple months the unit reset to defaults. Apparently the NVRAM got filled up and that is what happens - it's a known bug. Has been for years. And sorting though the large number of choices of ddwrt builds and trying to find the files is very frustrating and time consuming. I am about to go back to Asus firmware - they have an update to address the original problem.
I know people here have used Tomato and others. Any recommendations? My original reason for going with alternate software was to run Asterisk and other such things on the router. With many other boards (like Pi) for that sort of thing I don't see any real good reason to be running alternate firmware on the router. And having the router fail at random times has very low WAF! I just want the router to work and keep working. I can play with VOIP and such on other boards that don't kill the network. About the only thing I need on the router beyond basic operation is good QoS.
Any suggestions on this?
After a couple months the unit reset to defaults. Apparently the NVRAM got filled up and that is what happens - it's a known bug. Has been for years. And sorting though the large number of choices of ddwrt builds and trying to find the files is very frustrating and time consuming. I am about to go back to Asus firmware - they have an update to address the original problem.
I know people here have used Tomato and others. Any recommendations? My original reason for going with alternate software was to run Asterisk and other such things on the router. With many other boards (like Pi) for that sort of thing I don't see any real good reason to be running alternate firmware on the router. And having the router fail at random times has very low WAF! I just want the router to work and keep working. I can play with VOIP and such on other boards that don't kill the network. About the only thing I need on the router beyond basic operation is good QoS.
Any suggestions on this?