[HLUG] Router

[tim spivey]

Hello all

Sorry I have not made any recent meetings, but thought you may be
interested in what I have been up to.

I installed DD-WRT on my router.  It is an open source firmware that
gets more out of the router, I specifically did it as TalkTalk now
provide a few Internet streaming TV channels which stopped working
when I ditched the router (Huawei HG 533) they supplied in place for a
fairly cheap Netgear WNR2000v2. The Netgear seems to handle DNS better
and surfing the Web is now an a lot more pleasurable experience.
These Internet TV channels not working did annoy me a bit though, I
found out it was due to the Firewall in the router blocking Multicast
'signals'.  There was no way to remedy this using stock firmware but
installing DD-WRT gave me a lot more options and it was very easy to
enable Multicast. http://www.dd-wrt.com/

Tim

PS The Linux Voice (the new name for Linux Format (I think)) do a
really good podcast