[HLUG] Router

[Julian Robbins]

Hi Tim

I've been aware of DD-WRT for a long while but never tried it.

But I have had odd repeatable issues with very slow downloading of images,
where the images on a webpage hold up the rendering of the whole page
massively. Download times are ok, but theres something odd going on.

Perhaps I'll try DD-WRT or another router at some point.

Julian


On 5 August 2014 21:13, tim spivey <tim.spivey at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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