Tomato Shibby
As good as the Cisco E4200 Firmware is, it is lacking in some networking features that I wished it had, such as more than one DDNS entry, better control over wireless clients and bandwidth control.
I know that every man and his dog talks about DD-WRT but everytime I use it, I get the feeling that it is jam packed with features that don’t really fit with the home network but more like a mini ISP.
Any rate, I discovered Tomato Shibby and man am I impressed. It has all the performance and bandwidth limiting of TomatoUSB but with extra features such as a DLNA server (I don’t use this but others might), Transmission BT server/cleint, FTP server and a CIFS server. It has great support for the ability to run OpenDNS and DynDNS simultaneously and some really great reporting/logging features.
The latest build (83) has a fork [K26RT-N] that supports the 5gHz transmitter and so I really encourage you all to give it a try. By far, the best firmware I have installed. Make sure you get the AIO variant (All In One) as it has the functions built in.
NOTE: set the wireless transmitter power to 71mw for best results.
Here is the site to get all firmware: http://tomato.groov.pl/
Firmware with with 5gHz support: http://tomato.groov.pl/index.php?dir=K26RT-N%2Fbuild5x-083V
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