QUOTE(prasys @ Jun 20 2008, 02:02 PM)
Then i came across with Tomato. At first after trying it out , it seems to be lacking of something. Eventually , I fell in love with it as its simple , easy to use and has a superb QoS functionality (you'll only get that sort of QoS if you pay for the DD-WRT firmware)
QUOTE(kitsuna @ Jun 20 2008, 02:18 PM)
jump from DD-WRT to Tomato mainly because they do not provide speed control in the QoS (DD-WRT need to purchase special edition to have that sort of features)
Tomato may lack some features
but for home usage, it serve me well
after using quite some time, i do agree that Tomato are much lighter than DD-WRT (especially v24 standard)
DD-WRT offers an array of types such as micro, standard, nokaid, mega, big, etc so you could choose how much or how little features you need. Most features can be disabled within the web gui so you can have the most feature rich build but enable features only as you need them so that it runs as lightweight as possible.
I feel that the "special paid version" of dd-wrt has been a misconception and added features of QoS can be configured via cli. Also, the later builts include them directly in the web interface. For example, per IP or MAC address speed limits. Now these are hard coded limits and not QoS priority which are subjected to variability. Once set at a particular speed, the client will never be able to achieve anything higher than that:
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