How To Turn Your $60 POS Router into a $600 Fire Breather
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1. Turn your $60 POS router into a $600 fire breather!*
*for free
2. What is Tomato
Tomato is a small, lean and simple replacement firmware
forLinksys' WRT54G/GL/GS ,Buffalo WHR-G54S/WHR-HP-G54and other
Broadcom-based routers. It features a new easy to use GUI, a new
bandwidth usage monitor, more advanced QOS and access restrictions,
enables new wireless features such as WDS and wireless client
modes, raises the limits on maximum connections for P2P, allows you
to run your custom scripts or telnet/ssh in and do all sorts of
things like re-program the SES/AOSS button, adds wireless site
survey to see your wifi neighbors, and more.
3. What will this run on?
Linksys WRT54G v1-v4, WRT54GS v1-v4,WRT54GL v1.x ,WRTSL54GS(no
USB support)
BuffaloWHR-G54S ,WHR-HP-G54 , WZR-G54, WBR2-G54
AsusWL500G Premium(no USB support)
Untested but apparently works without changes: SparkLAN
WX-6615GT
Note: Most WRT54G and WRT54GS (not WRT54GL) sold in stores
right now are the v5.0+ variety and will not work with Tomato.
4. How do I find my Linksys version?
Look at the bottom side of the router to check for the version
number, or compare the first 4 characters of the serial number with
the following list: CDF0/CDF1 = WRT54G v1.0 CDF2/CDF3 = WRT54G v1.1
CDF5 = WRT54G v2.0 CDF7 = WRT54G v2.2 CDF8 = WRT54G v3.0 CDF9 =
WRT54G v3.1 CDFA = WRT54G v4.0
If it's not listed above, and it's not a WRT54GL, it's not
supported.
5. WRT54GL,L stands for Linux 6. polarcloud.com/tomato 7. 7zip
Extractorwww.7-zip.org 8. Ignore this to brick your router 9.
Connect viaEthernet , change your network if you have to. 10.
Login.Default password = admin. 11. Administration Tab>>
Firmware Upgrade 12. Upload firmware for your router. 13. 4 minutes
later, FTW 14. New admin page User = root, Password = admin 15.
Wireless site survey Can we say free wifi? I thought you could. 16.
QOS It only matters if you dont have it 17. Capture log
files.Embarrass neighbors/coworkers. 18. CIFS can be handy to
archive the blackmail log files. 19. Change front buttons Why?
Because we can! 20. Bandwidth usage and charts. Show your boss who
to blame.