pdscmid
DD-WRT Novice
Joined: 02 Dec 2006
Posts: 15
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 Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 21:40 Post subject: Convert from Talisman |
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And here is a another former Talisman user who paid for that firmware for a few years...
That my following message in the sveasoft forum got deleted, gave me the last bit of incentive that I needed to never go back there:
I don't know where this project went wrong, but going wrong it did. Talisman before 1.2 was ok, albeit it seemed to be a bit slow. Talisman 1.2 was just buggy.
That annoying PPTP crash and the complete freeze of the router if you had more than 7 or so GB of traffic in a certain timespan. 1.2 came out in August, and for some reason, those bugs didn't get addressed at all or not with the necessary priority. With crashes & freezes, I'd have expected a bug fix release within a few weeks (2-3) of 1.2. I would have expected that development efforts are concentrated right away on identifying and fixing bugs. But that didn't happen. And then came the supposedly stable 1.2.2 release in mid-November. I tried installing it twice in total, both times it bricked my router. After I got it working again, it seemed to not let me get on more than half of the Internet, which is the strangest behavior I have ever seen. I posted two rather pissed off rants about this (which should be understandable when my quick-half-hour firmware flash turns into a 4 hr ordeal at 4 am), but no one from sveasoft decided to reply. Rather, other posts made after mine seemed to be worthy a reply.
Maybe because I am not in that tester group, I don't matter? Maybe it's assumed that I am a dumb user who can't flash his router correctly?
Whatever the assumption, I have had enough of this. I have had enough of checking "development update" posts to see some ETAs that are never met, but slipped by weeks. I have had enough of reading that there are new features in the dev snapshots, but that new features are continuously being added instead of settling on a feature set and getting stability & quality right, and then working on the next feature set.
It's been fun while it lasted, but a quick Internet search today turned up a firmware that is free, has a larger feature set than Talisman 1.2 and, most importantly, is a lot more stable and of higher quality. I should also mention that the web interface is a lot more efficient to use than Talisman's. So I did my half-hour-firmware-flash today, and Talisman is gone from my router. PPTP disconnect doesn't crash the router, things feel faster and it even supports a PPTP connection from the router to a VPN server, a feature that Talisman doesn't have...
Patrick Schmid |
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