HyperWRT's mission statement "is a performance HyperWRT firmware for the Linksys WRT54G and WRT54GS routers. The goal of this project is to add a limited number of functions to the last Linksys firmware, is expanding its possibilities, but the proximity to the official firmware."
HYPER-WRT - Installation of this distribution is really a breeze, without a head hurts. Cool Features for this distribution are:
With my old Linksys firmware, I wasno VPN into my network. After I installed Hyper-WRT, I had no problem. Also, I usually work from my laptop in the same area of my house and with the Linksys firmware, I had a "good" signal to the windows. After I installed my windows HYPER-WRT excellent signal to jump every time.
HYPER-WRT installation was very simple, I reset my router to factory settings, downloaded the latest Hyper-WRT firmware connected to my router have Web --Interface Management "and pressed update firmware. Then I searched to the firmware files and am pressed to update.
HyperWRT proved to be exactly what the authors intended to install a simple to use, power boost firmware. I would recommend this firmware for a home or business network.
EWRT
EWRT portless is distributed through networks. This WRT54G firmware with features for the creation of open wireless hotspots to mean packedBusiness or neighborhoods. EWRT has many cool features: Drop bear SSH server (This provides a secure access), store a writable jffs2 partition on your content, high QoS (Quality of Service) and nocat splash.
Nocat Splash is a portal, which users can access the wireless network that is connected to a dynamic IP address, but can all the traffic to an internal Web page redirected. The website for EWRT says only that this router is designed for wireless hotspotpublic use and not abuse it, the user must accept the agreement, or they will not have access to anything. You are not firmly portless Networks web page, because you modify it for your affection.
QoS for a wireless hotspot is very important for the management, use as much bandwidth certain services. If some users are fitting range then others do not have access to the Internet in order to ruin the hotspot.
Networks portless intention was to create this routeras a "hotspot" in a box, and they achieved this with flying colors. I could not install EWRT through the web interface without any problems. I was able to VPN into my home network and SSH on my Linux box. EWRT with the latest security features such as WPA and WPA Radius. I could use my TINYPEAP as radius server .. When I started nocat splash and the Internet, I receive an error message "NO data on this page once connected in a while, but that might be my fault, as some.
IfYou want to create a hotspot for your business start or free public knot in your area EWRT is for you.
DD-WRT
DD-WRT makes your WRT54G from a cheap $ 60 router into a $ 200-dollar wireless router. It has more features, it can count, I will only go over the many highlights.
At the moment I am with VER. 22, VER 23 is out, but I have not installed it yet. VER. 23 is a beta version. VER 23 has a new Web interface with many moreOptions I listed below. DD-WRT also has options for VoIP.
Setup tab - everything is pretty much the same here with the exception of VLANs. VLANs can divide your physical LAN into logical LANs. You want to separate them using network resources or to prevent access to resources.
Tab "Security" - One of the best features of DD-WRT is that the VPN option actually works.
Access Restriction Tab - All other firmwares you have this option, but I'm with DD-WRTnow I will treat them here. If you would like to share your wireless connection with others but you will not be abused to set up guidelines. You can can block file-sharing applications like eDonkey, limit your views to your wireless signal shares certain days and block websites.
Application and Gamming Tab-First you have more than 30 slots configure port forwarding ... that is a lot of different services. More on this tab, the QOS is(Quality of Service), here you can give priority to the bandwidth of certain ports, and MAC address.
Administration tab - If you go all the way to the bottom you will find the option to enable WDS Connection Watchdog too. This service will send ICMP messages to / ping commands, a granted access points every few minutes. If the access point you can specify not reached, the router restarts
In my next article I will review TINYPEAP, Batbox wrt54g and openwrtLinux firmware distributions.