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Thread ID: 97480 2009-02-17 13:16:00 Attn: Somebody - WL-520gU Chilling_Silence (9) PC World Chat
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748734 2009-02-18 04:40:00 Ah, also, this may be of interest:
www.linksysinfo.org

Fixes the clock issue with them (Being horribly inaccurate) as well as USB support. The upgrade is seamless, doesnt kill any of your settings :)
Highly recommended if you're going to use anything like the Time Restrictions.

Lastly, NZ's NTP servers for those interested:
2.nz.pool.ntp.org
3.oceania.pool.ntp.org
2.oceania.pool.ntp.org

(Note Im also posting this here for my own reference!)

:D 		Chilling_Silence (9)
748735 2009-02-18 08:30:00 Cool-thanks Chill, I'll be upgrading tonight.

Are you going to use an IFS so you can see the drives in windows?

Or are you doing this all from linux?

I've currently got 2 8gb flash drives connected to a hub, working great as fat32.

Might consider changing to Ext3. Not sure of the benefits though?(other than the 4gb size limit of course, but I don't copy files larger than 1gb anyways.

Cheers
Blam 		Blam (54)
748736 2009-02-18 11:55:00 You cant do large files ATM (we're talking bigger than a few hundred MB - Largest Ive done so far is 300-odd MB) or it locks up, due to the way that windows tries to pre-allocate all the filespace required

See here: www.linksysinfo.org

But no, no IFS or anything, running XP but formatted the 4GB thumbdrive from a Ubuntu box I use as a fileserver 		Chilling_Silence (9)
748737 2009-02-18 17:55:00 My experience with doing the same thing on DD-WRT has been slightly different - copying large files (~100mb each) performed quite well, but as soon as I started copying a lot of small files (~1-5kb each) there seemed to be a lot of overhead, which made the file transfers painfully slow. somebody (208)
748738 2009-03-23 07:04:00 Hokay - thread hijack time. :p

Finally bought a WL-520GU.

Now - DD-WRT or Tomato. 		wratterus (105)
748739 2009-03-23 07:15:00 Hokay - thread hijack time. :p

Finally bought a WL-520GU.

Now - DD-WRT or Tomato.

I've traditionally used DD-WRT, but from what I've read, Tomato seems quite good. There's no harm in trying both. 		somebody (208)
748740 2009-03-23 08:55:00 DD-WRT seems a sensible place to start.

Lets try that... 		wratterus (105)
748741 2009-03-23 09:08:00 IMHO-Tomato definetly

Best thing is that when you change a setting-it doesn't reboot the router like DD-WRT or any other normal router firmware. It restarts the service instead, which is good especially when I'm downloading stuff:p

And I don't think theres any graphs/stats in DD-WRT, no bandwidth monitor either

Tomatos got a much cleaner interface IMO....and it just seems to "work"

You might want to install DD-WRT, then tomato over it as it seems to be the easiest way to install it.

When you do get it:
go Advanced -> Wireless in the Tomato sidebar and find the entry labeled Transmit Power. Change it from 42mW to 70 or so, its what the DD-WRT/Tomato firmware recommends.

Blam 		Blam (54)
748742 2009-03-23 09:19:00 Awesome - so Tomato does all the bridging/range extending that DD-WRT does right?

All I want to use it for is basically a bridge and a range extender, the other stuff is a (useful) bonus. :) 		wratterus (105)
748743 2009-03-23 09:57:00 Havent tried using it as a Wireless Repeater with Tomato. Can do it in DD-WRT with my eyes closed, but to be honest I'd take Tomato any day over DD-WRT. No contest! Chilling_Silence (9)
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