Really useful info - thanks

Nope, it just never connected to the router in the first place. I decided not to try Shibby and go with Toastman and it worked fine. Setting VID 500 and tagging WAN was working perfectly fine. So for anyone with the RT-N18U, give Toastman a try.


I actually don't know what it could be as I tried doing various things to fix it. Even tried doing a full NVRAM wipe, and then setting VID offset but still my router was inaccessible. Did the same thing and just set VID straight to 500 and no connection. I gave up and tried Toastman's build and it worked perfectly fine so the problem is probably in Shibby's build.


Yea, I wen't with Toastman's build and now things are working fine. I wouldn't say Tomato firmware doesn't work well with our ARM devices. Just have to find the right build I guess.

But oddly enough, I tried DD-WRT and the same issues were happening

The 4K VLAN for BCM53115 is not related to your case at all. In fact it is on separate code path. Maybe it's good enough for you, but tomato arm does not meet my requirement for a stable use. Broadcom ARM are mostly newer AC routers (Asus RT-N18U is an exception). If you have Asus Broadcom ARM based router & supported by AsusWRT-Merlin (not for RT-N18U), use that instead. Just because there is build for your device, doesn't mean it is properly supported. This is especially true with OpenWRT & DD-WRT. No point making your network less stable just to have some fancy features.

Hi all. Just to confirmed, tomatoUSB firmware r/w speed for usb disk in ntfs format are slow compare to ext2/ext3 or fat32?

i tested fat32 and ext3 can get decent speed but not ntfs......

is there any solution for that? or is it just as it is?

I am planning to flash shibby's tomato build 138 (tomato-K26-1.28.RT-N5x-MIPSR2-138-Max.zip) on my RT-N12HP_B1.

Will both unifi and hypptv work with this build on my router?

EDIT: I am flashing custom firmware so that I could use both ssh and openVPN with it.

This post has been edited by Matt3226: May 7 2017, 06:03 PM

Thanks biatche, still works in 2019 with Asus RT-N16 Tomato 1.28.0000 MIPSR2-3.5-140 K26 USB AIO

Speedtest Turbo800 with BCM_NAT: ON


This post has been edited by soonwai: Feb 14 2019, 11:29 PM

Is there anything that i need to take note? I’m using tomatousb on netgear R7000 but only get 50mbps despite I’m subscribed to 300mbps unifi. Thanks

50Mbps on wired LAN?

Yeah, only 50mbps on gb LAN. It’s bad right?

Im not too sure still got people using this tomato firmware to connect Unifi.
I try for few hour still not able to get it to work.
Is anyone can post some screenshot? tq