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Good router for a lot of P2P-connections?
tomoya-kun:
--- Quote from: Xiong Chiamiov on February 12, 2011, 12:15:25 AM ---DD-WRT allows you to adjust the number of available connections; Tomato and similar should as well.
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DD-WRT and similar works great, lots of things to customize to however you want it to be. Better than most stock router firmware, anyhow,
Gamerzhell:
I can vouch for the Asus RT-N16, I'm using one right now flashed with DD-WRT. I have manually set the limit at 65536 connections, though it can theoretically hit 300k no probs. Highest amount of connections i've ever been at is only 5000 though. downsides are mediocre wireless performance.
edit: if you're using adsl then put your old modem in bridged mode and connect LAN port 1 to the WAN port on the router. set up connection settings from router config.
TorturdChaos:
Personally I like any of the Linksys WRT54G, GS, or GL series. Only draw back they have had is they like to keep to long of a log of all the connections you have made, and overflows your NAT table (which does sound like the issue u had). Like d/l Bleach and connecting to 1000+ peers always crashed it - until I loaded DD-WRT firmware onto it. It was a breeze to do too.
I have an older WRT54G v3.1, and with DD-WRT it runs like a top.
Just helped my friend get a WRT54GL from Newegg (think they still have them on sale for $50) to replace his POS Netgear (that you had to reset daily) and it took us all of 20min to load DD-WRT onto it. Did that almost a month ago, and he hasn't had any trouble with any of his torrents or any other internet applications, and hasn't had to reset it every day either :P. Everything runs great.
Just the other day I flash my parents WRT54G v5 Linksys with DD-WRT because it took forever to load web pages, even though everthing else looked fine (speed, ping, latency). That v5 is a bit more of struggle to flash, took me about an hour to do it. But now it runs nice and smooth.
So even if you don't get a Linksys, I would recommend one you can easily flash with DD-WRT and just scrap the manf. firmware. Look it up on DD-WRT's website and see if you can load DD-WRT on it easily or some are even advertised "DD-WRT compatible".
tomoya-kun:
My DGL-4500 runs fine as well for P2P downloads, always hit my max of 2mb/s
sapsa:
Mayby little late, but all of my Linksys (not the new one cisco) router was good with P2P. Avoid Netgear (the one i had freezee with p2p)
Not needed linux routers. Why pay more for funtion you wont need?
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