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can you provide a link showing how to use these things? (Openwrt...etc) I want to but networking is such a dark place for me.
by banku_brougham 11y ago
can you provide a link showing how to use these things? (Openwrt...etc) I want to but networking is such a dark place for me.
- icebraining 11y agohttps://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/start https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/start
- ck2 11y agoOpenWRT is plain vanilla and probably a hard place to start if you don't understand terminology, etc. Try Tomato for a friendlier newbie environment. Google your router to see what alternate firmwares are available for it and never buy a new router unless you know one of the alternatives is available for it because most factory firmware is full of holes.
- wtallis 11y agoWhat do you find friendlier about Tomato than modern OpenWRT? The latter has more features, but from what I recall of Tomato it really wasn't much different about how it presented the core functionality.
- ck2 11y agoYou can't be suggesting OpenWRT is newbie-friendly. Powerful and flexible, yes. Newbie or casual-user friendly, no. If Tomato is not enough, then DD-WRT, but Tomato being more stripped down becomes more newbie friendly by default.
- wtallis 11y agoWhat specific features or capabilities do you think a current version of OpenWRT does in a less newbie-friendly way than Tomato or DD-WRT? They've all got web interfaces that present a status summary upon log-in and have pages for configuring different categories of settings (WAN, WiFi, port forwarding, etc.). Unless you think Tomato's default color scheme makes it vastly more usable, you'll have to point to something specific. (And while it's been a while since I last used DD-WRT, my experience was that it had a multitude of options that were non-functional or incorrectly documented, so I'll need some pretty strong convincing that it's got any advantage over OpenWRT.)