Hi,
I've looked around, and perhaps have missed it. What I'm looking for is a basic article on why a relative newbie would move from stock firmware to to one of these open source variants.
- Is there a list of features for any of the recent ones? DD-WRT gives relaase notes, while Kong Mod seems to remain silent.
- What are the advantages to these builds v. stock for a home user/moderately knowledgeable user?
- What are the pitfalls and dangers of attempting to move to open source builds? How-to docs?
Thanks,
Anton
You will always find a complte list of revision update, features added / updated etc for all DD-WRT firmware submited by Tathagata Das.
Go to this link to find this-
http://myopenrouter.com/download/dd-wrt-firmware-netgear-r7000-based-rev...
It completely depends of that user. Acording to his/her requirements DD-WRT might have attractive features / user friendly GUI etc and that could serve him/her better.
Look, you have a router and you must be having the traditional stock firmware while purchased it. Now from the point of a home user, you do not have any dangers to move to any open source builds since this could also be replaced with your original stock firmware. Rather there are possibilities to get advanced features, attractive GUI etc. which you might have liked because it could serve your requirements better.
There are no generic rule to shift from traditional stock to DD-WRT. It varies person to person.
I've been playing around with DD-WRT and Tomato. They don't offer anything over OEM, except you have direct access to the router to hack whatever you want together. Maybe they had something to offer when OEM's had new buggy firmware or if you are running an old router. But now OEM offers more features.
Also check out their communities. Their isn't one. It is just a few people building their ideal firmware, and not much innovation. But AdvancedTomato sure has a nice UI.
Thanks to both of you!
Anton