New router
Jan. 17th, 2011 07:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyGot an Asus WL-520GU, and got Tomato installed on it. Yay, it's nice to have a powerful router again. The Rosewill was OK, it did basic duty, but was missing a number of features that I'd grown quite accustomed to. I'd intended to install Tomato on the Rosewill, and I think it's possible to do but I never was able to get it running.
Installing a new firmware on the Asus is a little more of a PITA than it strictly needs to be; you have to use TFTP. They give you a small utility to do it with, but seriously, why? It's nice to have the TFTP option though, because it means you probably can't totally brick the thing; I imagine the TFTP boot loader is non-volatile, or at least in an area not typically overwritten during reflash.
Installing a new firmware on the Asus is a little more of a PITA than it strictly needs to be; you have to use TFTP. They give you a small utility to do it with, but seriously, why? It's nice to have the TFTP option though, because it means you probably can't totally brick the thing; I imagine the TFTP boot loader is non-volatile, or at least in an area not typically overwritten during reflash.
