[TriLUG] best home router for voip prioritization

Joseph Mack NA3T jmack at wm7d.net
Fri Dec 27 12:01:04 EST 2013


On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, Igor Partola wrote:

> (Hijacking the thread a bit)
>
> John, why do you use DD-WRT over OpenWRT? Have you tried both and liked
> DD-WRT better or have you not gotten a chance to try one over the other?

I'll put in a plug for OpenWRT, although I don't know if it has the features 
that the OP wants, that seem to be in dd-wrt.

I used dd-wrt about 10yrs ago. The filesystem is strange and I never figured out 
where things should go. I would write a file in what seemed to be a reasonable 
place to find that it disappeared on reboot. Presumably I'd written in the 
in-memory fs, but couldn't tell by looking that I was doing so. Eventually I 
found places to put things. As well the scripting doesn't look a lot like bash, 
and it took a while to find how to get cron jobs to run and what they could and 
could not do.

I couldn't figure out how to donate money to dd-wrt. I couldn't just send him a 
check (there was no address or name to send to). I had to give him a credit card 
number, but couldn't tell how much he was doing to charge, whether it was a 
one-off charge, or I was paying for a license would be charged yearly forever. 
There didn't seem to be any way of contacting the developer to turn off the 
yearly charge if indeed that's what it was.

OpenWRT is more like Linux. It does require a bit of a different way of 
thinking; you have limited file storage and RAM.

Joe

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