[HLUG] Router

[tim spivey]

Hi Julian

The issues you have sound very familiar and remind me why I got rid of the
ISP supplied router.

Tim
On 5 Aug 2014 23:01, "Julian Robbins" <joolsr1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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