I’ve been running DD-WRT on my WRT54GL for well over a year not and even documented detailed firmware flashing instructions. However, I’ve been debating on switching to the Tomato firmware for close to year now.
With Comcast’s new 250 GB bandwidth limit and Tomato’s impressive bandwidth monitor, the reasons to switch from DD-WRT to Tomato are more compelling. Although I believe DD-WRT v24 supports bandwidth monitoring, I like the looks and features of Tomato.
The Systm episode 71 by Revision3 recently covered the process to flash a Linksys WRT54G with Tomato firmware and also showed off some of the application’s coolest features. If you’re debating on upgrading your very basic Linksys router to something much better for free, I highly recommend you watch this video. It’ll make you want to do it right away.
Now, if I can just determine the best process to switch from DD-WRT to Tomato, I’d be good…
Update
I decided to switch from DD-WRT to Tomato because it has all of the features I need. Additionally, DD-WRT has been wrought with security vulnerabilities. While most vulnerabilities have likely been patched, finding a stable and patched version proved complicated. Since most other sites I’ve seen only describe how to flash from the default Linksys firmware, I decided to write a tutorial on how to switch from DD-WRT to Tomato.
