Which router for 120mb broadband that supports Tomato


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After giving up on the crap which is the Superhub provided by VirginMedia I tried out an old WRT54GL with Tomato. . This was brilliant, Wifi now works flawlessly and so does WOL. I also set up a VPN and IPv6 using the router. The problem is that the poor CPU (overclocked from 200Mhz to 250Mhz) just can't cope with the speeds. Torrents max out at a sustained 42 Mb and Usenet can only sustain 23Mb.

Which good value router should I short-list that supports Tomato and not bottleneck 120Mb broadband?

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smallnet builders has a database of routers supported throughput -- let me dig it up

here you go

http://www.smallnetb...ter-charts/view

I show the e4200 doing like 686.8 Mbps wan to lan, but the e4200v2 only doing like 254Mb -- which should still be good enough for your 120. I don't show the e2000 on there. But as example the e1000, 1200 and 2500 all show less than 100mb

From

en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Tomato_Firmware/Supported_Devices

I don't show the e2000 or e4200 being supported, maybe the tomato usb version does?

Now I show the netgear wnr3500L supported by tomato and showing 255.5 Mbps wan to lan, so that should cover you.

edit: If me I would look to a router distro running on pc level hardware for a power user with that kind of bandwidth available ;) Once you start playing with the likes of pfsense, ipcop, smoothwall, etc. etc.. You will never go back to the little soho routers to be sure..

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The e4*00 series of routers was also tested recently to have he best range of wireless routers if that matters. And I do believe it's supported by tomato USB.

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