Hello all. I am new here and i am very intrested in all of the talk going on about this router. I am a computer technician by trade. I have been building fixing computers and installing networks for 20 years. The other day i went to install a wireless network at one of the compaines that I manage. I bought this router just by chance and installed it. I liked it so much that I got one for my house. Then I come to find out that there is this giant community talking about the firmware for this router.
So please tell me. Why?? LOL
what is the big deal about all these out of box choices and what is the best firmware to use with it and why??
People mainly use third party firmwares in their router mainly because of their reach feature set and handy webUI to configure them. For WNR3500L the various flavor of firmwares are available are ... DDWRT, Tomato, OpenWRT. All of them have a list of features supported. The firmware that includes most of the features of your need is automatically best choice for you.