Transmission on DD-WRT router.

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Re: Transmission on DD-WRT router.

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If your router is being supported: also try Tomato. Tomato is, in my experience, more reliable and stable than DD-WRT. :)
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Re: Transmission on DD-WRT router.

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Charlie wrote: Sat Feb 24, 2018 5:46 am ....... I remember when Linksys were a decent company.
You have my sympathy !
There's so much dismal junk on the router market these days .
Once respected brands that now churn out garbage ....

It's becoming a " cart before the horse " situation , and the user essentially has to choose which system to run
and then select a router that supports it .

I agree with Pjotr that Tomato involves less head-banging and grief than wrt .
I joined the dd-wrt forum and I was less than impressed !
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Re: Transmission on DD-WRT router.

Post by Faust »

One could always go for the " roll your own " option .

Raspberry Pi is usually a good starting point but in this case , Banana Pi offers some nice extras right out of the box
.... Dual NICs and a SATA socket .

In my notes there's a link to a good thread on this a few years back , over at Wilders
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads ... st-2635734

But no guarantees that there won't be gnashing-of-teeth , rending-of-clothes etc .... somewhere along the way - :mrgreen:
Just a thought ....
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Re: Transmission on DD-WRT router.

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"Back in the day" I used to put the DD-WRT firmware on any router I bought. I also bought routers on the basis of being able to flash them to DD-WRT.

Just for laughs, I recently tried putting a compatible version of OpenWRT on a router that's no longer in service. Flashing it was easy enough, but the performance of the router's web interface just went in the toilet. Also, the user interface was absolutely gosh-awful. You shouldn't have to be a network administrator with years of experience just to figure out what the heck you're looking at. DD-WRT has always done a better job of presenting settings, and access to those settings.

I don't own any hardware that I can use tomato on, and so I've never looked at it. I've heard about it, but never used it.

Also, the only time I ever Torrent anything is if I'm downloading a GNU+Linux ISO and they've requested that you do it that way to help out with bandwidth. ISPs now track torrent activities, web site access, etc., and I have no desire to ever be served a cease-and-desist letter from mine, nor from any other legal source.

Besides, as I've said elsewhere, I don't run non-free software on my computer, so the only thing that would potentially leave is movies and music, neither of which would I try to download because, of course, of that very same usage tracking by ISPs.
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