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It's considerably heavier than older Tomato versions, so if you have a 10-year-old router that's already running fine on an older Tomato variant I don't recomme

It's considerably heavier than older Tomato versions, so if you have a 10-year-old router that's already running fine on an older Tomato variant I don't recommend it.

LeifCarrotson 5y ago
If you expect people to be running a WRT54G from 2002 or a WRT54GL from 2005, that's a fair warning. Those only had like 4 MB Flash and 16 MB RAM, and a single-core MIPS processor at 125 or 200 MHz. When those came out, you were probably running a Pentium 3 with 512 MB of DDR2-800 and had an 80 GB hard drive. If you're still running that as your PC, be careful, because modern desktop operating systems and programs are also considerably heavier. Stick with Netscape for browsing the web, though there's a new browser called Firefox in version 0.9. Napster recently shut down, but yes, your old Tomato firmware should be nice and snappy while using Limewire over your DSL modem, FreshTomato, with all the options built in, might not fit. This will, indeed, run best and be enable the most features when using a router that has a comparatively generous 128 MB of Flash, 64 kB of NVRAM, and 128/256 MB of DRAM. Those are no longer opulent or excessive stats. Wifi AC is out, treat yourself to something with MIMO antennas, a dual-core 1+ GHz ARM processor to run all the neat plugins you might want to use, and USB3 storage. Even with that higher power, switching power supplies have improved dramatically in the past few decades, both the router and the power brick will probably not be as hot as on that old router at the same time as they're doing more and doing it faster.
julianlam 5y ago
I think the maintainers build different variants based on RAM size and feature set. For example, the image I used on my router was 27Mb, but the smaller "min" image for the relatively old RT-N12 was only 3.6Mb.

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It's considerably heavier than older Tomato versions, so if you have a 10-year-old router that's already running fine on an older Tomato variant I don't recomme

by pinebox 5y ago

It's considerably heavier than older Tomato versions, so if you have a 10-year-old router that's already running fine on an older Tomato variant I don't recommend it.

LeifCarrotson 5y ago
If you expect people to be running a WRT54G from 2002 or a WRT54GL from 2005, that's a fair warning. Those only had like 4 MB Flash and 16 MB RAM, and a single-core MIPS processor at 125 or 200 MHz. When those came out, you were probably running a Pentium 3 with 512 MB of DDR2-800 and had an 80 GB hard drive. If you're still running that as your PC, be careful, because modern desktop operating systems and programs are also considerably heavier. Stick with Netscape for browsing the web, though there's a new browser called Firefox in version 0.9. Napster recently shut down, but yes, your old Tomato firmware should be nice and snappy while using Limewire over your DSL modem, FreshTomato, with all the options built in, might not fit. This will, indeed, run best and be enable the most features when using a router that has a comparatively generous 128 MB of Flash, 64 kB of NVRAM, and 128/256 MB of DRAM. Those are no longer opulent or excessive stats. Wifi AC is out, treat yourself to something with MIMO antennas, a dual-core 1+ GHz ARM processor to run all the neat plugins you might want to use, and USB3 storage. Even with that higher power, switching power supplies have improved dramatically in the past few decades, both the router and the power brick will probably not be as hot as on that old router at the same time as they're doing more and doing it faster.
julianlam 5y ago
I think the maintainers build different variants based on RAM size and feature set. For example, the image I used on my router was 27Mb, but the smaller "min" image for the relatively old RT-N12 was only 3.6Mb.