[ale] Why Tomato? was Re: I'm very lucky

[Matt Rideout]

I'm assuming Richard meant something along the lines of a Cisco Access 
Point Controller? I'd love to see an open source competitor to that that 
would interface with the *WRTs and Tomato APs.

James Sumners wrote, On 08/21/2009 11:47 AM:
> Tomato just works. The interface is easy to use and understand. The
> QoS rule builder rocks. The real-time bandwidth graphs are extremely
> handy. The default bridge between the wireless and wired networks is
> awesome (my wired Xbox 360 sees my iTunes share on my wireless MacBook
> Pro).
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> What do you mean by "multiple-AP control features"?
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> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:57 AM, david w. millians<millia at panix.com> wrote:
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>> Richard Bronosky wrote:
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>>> Easy.
>>> 1. Use ethernet connection for the upgrade, NOT WiFi
>>> 2. Use Tomato firmware instead of DD-WRT.
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>> What advantage is there to tomato vs. DD-WRT? I've used it and helped
>> set it up for probably a 100 installs, and it always does fine by me.
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>> Now, if it allowed easy, multiple-AP control features, I'd be all over
>> that.
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