Wednesday, December 31, 2008

DD_WRT and my WRT-350n

So for Christmas I got a Linksys WRT-350N. I take it home and the first thing I do is flash to DD-WRT v24sp1. So far I am completely happy. I spent serveral hours getting all of my settings moved over from my old router Dlink DIR-634M...now a wireless G access point and switch for my roomates equipment. I was really surprised at the ease of setup that dd-wrt allows you. I haven't even gotten into the major project that I want to do yet(Setting up two cable modems load balanced). I'll do a full post on that later.

So far this is what I have setup on the router.
1. ddns on dyndns.org and no-ip.com working flawlessly
2. pptp server for my vpn setup. Will probably switch to openDNS once I have more time for setup. This is helping me a lot as I was using Hamachi which works great but had a good portion of lag to it because it had to contact their servers before coming to me.
3. QOS works pretty good and I'm sure it will work great once I get it finalized and have all of my equipment in there.
4. The Major Project. I'm working on setting up a dual dhcp cable modem connection load balanced on this router. This is going to take a lot of time and I will have to get back with you on how it goes. Hopefully I have it running in the next week or two and I can give a full step by step on how I got it running.

I'm sure I will also setup a web server and some other things along the way. I will continue to post as I add services and configurations to this glorious router and firmware.

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