[TriLUG] WRT54G

[bidwell]

Randy Barlow wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:49:28 -0700 (PDT), Patrick Brewer
> <patwbrewer at yahoo.com> declared:
>> If so what is a good, reliable distro for it?  
>>
>> I am tired to having to reboot it every few days when my internet
>> access begins to crawl.  Not sure what happens but a reboot of the
>> ROUTER speeds everything up again. 
> 
> DD-WRT has a setting for the maximum number of TCP connections.  I got
> the impression that you may be running the stock firmware, but I
> thought I would point this out because I ran into similar behavior when
> our TCP connection quota was filled.  I believe the default in DD-WRT
> was 500, and I've got one of those Bit Torrent type roommates who
> easily consumed that.  Bumping it to 2000 (or was it 4000?) solved the
> issue...
> 
I've used openwrt "white russian" which so far I haven't heard
anyone mention..... which I'm slightly worried about.  Are there
problems with this I haven't heard about?  I've been happy
with it.

Matt