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I did the same thing. my Asus + tomato firmware = sanity. I couldn't believe how easy it was I've had the thing for about 4 years and never have to reboot it o

• kyrra 14y ago
  New Asus routers like the N66U used TomatoUSB as a base, creating their own custom version of it. Then there are custom versions of Asus's firmware, such as the AsusWRT Merlin builds.
  • jseliger 14y ago
    >New Asus routers like the N66U Tangential questions: why do consumer routers never have six or eight ethernet ports? Most appear to have space, yet so few include extras.
    • sliverstorm 14y ago
      Probably because hardly anyone uses all four ports, and extra ports is extra cost. Besides, you can always get a switch. Not saying I would object to more ports, just my guess as to why.
      • wtracy 14y ago
        Offering models with extra ports sounds like it would be an awesome way to price segment your customers. The enterprise people have already figured this out, I don't know why the consumer people haven't.
        • wtallis 14y ago
          I suspect that the Ethernet switch is not part of the SoC, so it's a separate component that is already price-segmented. A consumer wireless router with 8+ Ethernet ports would probably not have significantly better margins than the existing models, but might need another round of FCC certification, and might also cannibalize sales of enterprise routers. Also, I think most consumers who have a need for more than 4 computers to connect to their router via Ethernet probably don't want their entire network to have such an expensive single point of failure. I've had Ethernet ports on wireless routers die before. I like my switch separate from my router/AP separate from my modem.