Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:05 Post subject: WRT54G v5 - dd-wrt Performance vs. Stock
My WRT54G v5 has been a better router than older D-Link and Netgear routers that I have tried. However, it could still be better. Sometimes webpages just hang. It feels like the router is in an infinite loop. The connection becomes sluggish until I disconnect and reconnect both the DSL modem and router. I suppose the problem could be the DSL modem too...
However, is the dd-wrt performance any better than stock WRT54G v5 firmware? Has anyone ever measured this? I don't care about extra features, all I want is a fast and reliable connection. I am surprised that I could not find any comments about performance in this forum.
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 11:37 Post subject:
if you never try..you'll never know ...read on the wiki about this firmware... G v5 just only support with micro version because it have lower memory then other series.. for the feature of micro version you can read / search on wiki section
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I looked through the wiki and found absolutely nothing about performance. They only talked about cool features, which I mostly do not care about. Before risking turning my router into a brick, I want to make sure that there is at least some small performance benefit that I could gain. Why did Linksys turn away from Linux starting with wrt v5?
I'm going to say generally no, it isn't better. About the only thing that may make performance better is the ability to turn up the signal strength on the wireless.
The issue is not about performance per se. The issue is about features and stability. The features of the DDWRT firmware blow away the factory firmware from Linksys. I mean not even a competition between the two. And for the stable "final" releases, the ddwrt firmware is STABLE.
So if you are looking for some kind of performance increase, probably not going to happen with firmware change. You could buy a fan, heatsink stick on gizmos, and maybe over clock the CPU with the DDWRT firmware...... That might boost performance some. But you'd want to add lots of cooling.
I'm going to say generally no, it isn't better. About the only thing that may make performance better is the ability to turn up the signal strength on the wireless.
The issue is not about performance per se. The issue is about features and stability. The features of the DDWRT firmware blow away the factory firmware from Linksys. I mean not even a competition between the two. And for the stable "final" releases, the ddwrt firmware is STABLE.
So if you are looking for some kind of performance increase, probably not going to happen with firmware change. You could buy a fan, heatsink stick on gizmos, and maybe over clock the CPU with the DDWRT firmware...... That might boost performance some. But you'd want to add lots of cooling.
Jim
Actually, I do care about stability too. But by stability, you mean that the router will not go into an infinite loop where it slows down and requires a reboot. right? Or does stability mean something else?
Why did Linksys turn away from Linux starting with wrt v5?
MONEY
Don't they have to pay VxWorks to develop a firmware? Could they not have used something such as DD-WRT or OpenWRT instead for free? Open source is free right?
They switched to VxWorks because it was a smaller size and that would enable them to put half of the memory into the routers and still sell them at the same price, because they would have the same features. Also, by locking the firmware they created a new market segment. They could now sell regular WRT54Gs with stripped down hardware for the same price as they were selling the better ones, and then they could sell "hackable" versions for more money, even though they were identical to the old WRT54G V.4 routers.
It sounds to me like you actually are looking more for stability than performance. I personally started using aftermarked firmware on my WRT54G v.2 because I would have to reboot the router every 1-3 days because it would freeze. This was very anoying to me, so I searched for possible solutions and stumbled into the world of aftermarked Linksys firmware. Almost all of the aftermarket firmware versions available for the WRT54G can handle more simultaneous connections than the Linksys firmware. This must just be due to better coding, because this is usually something that is hardware dependant. Even if you don't need extra features, you should be able to find the stability (and slightly better performance) you are looking for with DD-WRT. Make sure you follow the v.5 directions and happy upgrading.
...read on the wiki about this firmware... G v5 just only support with micro version because it have lower memory then other series.. for the feature of micro version you can read / search on wiki section