Best Free 3rd Party Firmware for Cisco E1200 by Linksys?
Tags:
- Routers
-
Firmware
- Cisco
- Networking
Last response: in Networking
supermanu15
May 18, 2014 8:48:31 AM
I have a Cisco E1200 v2 home router with DD WRT installed as firmware, I was wondering if there are any other 3rd party firmwares where this router can function best.
I did a little research but I want to ask the community first so I don't just go and brick this stuff, please check link below:
https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Linksys_E1200_v2
But it is also mentioned that it might not be compatible with tomato firmware as stated here:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r27781478-Linksys-E1200....
So I am meaning to ask, do you guys have any suggestions as to what I can jack up into this thing? Thanks a million in advance!
I did a little research but I want to ask the community first so I don't just go and brick this stuff, please check link below:
https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Linksys_E1200_v2
But it is also mentioned that it might not be compatible with tomato firmware as stated here:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r27781478-Linksys-E1200....
So I am meaning to ask, do you guys have any suggestions as to what I can jack up into this thing? Thanks a million in advance!
More about : free 3rd party firmware cisco e1200 linksys
-
Reply to supermanu15
das_stig
May 18, 2014 9:13:16 AM
-
Reply to das_stig
m
0
l
bill001g
May 18, 2014 9:17:52 AM
This gets extremely hard to say since minor variations in the firmware or changes to things like memory cause issues for certain releases. Even dd-wrt you must be careful to load the correct image. Most routers you can recover from brick state. There are very few that can not be recovered...some are a huge pain to recover though.
It is all personal preference. Many people like tomato because it is a little simpler it has fewer options so it is tends to look less confusing. The vast majority of the features are exactly the same. I know a couple of the releases have very special features like dd-wrt has the best support of 3g/4g broadband modems where things like gargoyle is the only one I know that supports hard byte/month caps on traffic.
I tend to always run dd-wrt because I in the past learned how to modify and relink my own images and I am not willing to spend the huge time again to learn another platform.
It is all personal preference. Many people like tomato because it is a little simpler it has fewer options so it is tends to look less confusing. The vast majority of the features are exactly the same. I know a couple of the releases have very special features like dd-wrt has the best support of 3g/4g broadband modems where things like gargoyle is the only one I know that supports hard byte/month caps on traffic.
I tend to always run dd-wrt because I in the past learned how to modify and relink my own images and I am not willing to spend the huge time again to learn another platform.
-
Reply to bill001g
m
0
l
supermanu15
May 18, 2014 10:09:22 AM
das_stig said:
Shibby's version of Tomato supports the Linksys E1200http://tomato.groov.pl/?page_id=69
I came across that site earlier, but it only provides the link for the v1, I have v2.
-
Reply to supermanu15
m
0
l
supermanu15
May 18, 2014 10:17:37 AM
bill001g said:
This gets extremely hard to say since minor variations in the firmware or changes to things like memory cause issues for certain releases. Even dd-wrt you must be careful to load the correct image. Most routers you can recover from brick state. There are very few that can not be recovered...some are a huge pain to recover though.It is all personal preference. Many people like tomato because it is a little simpler it has fewer options so it is tends to look less confusing. The vast majority of the features are exactly the same. I know a couple of the releases have very special features like dd-wrt has the best support of 3g/4g broadband modems where things like gargoyle is the only one I know that supports hard byte/month caps on traffic.
I tend to always run dd-wrt because I in the past learned how to modify and relink my own images and I am not willing to spend the huge time again to learn another platform.
One of the things I want to flash my router with another 3rd party firmware is to learn another platform
i am just curious. The memory is what I am also worried about, but there is also an option to download the v2 firmware here: http://tomato.groov.pl/download/K26RT-N/build5x-104-EN/...I am just a bit worried because it might not be compatible, a bit of confidence is there because hey, if it says v2 then it i suppose to support v2 right?
-
Reply to supermanu15
m
0
l
bill001g
May 18, 2014 11:06:22 AM
supermanu15
May 18, 2014 11:20:02 AM
bill001g said:
The key is how bad the unbrick process is. Some are really easy so those you can take big risks with loading firmwareI am not really certain but somehow i feel confident loading this up, thank you for your feedback by the way
i guess i can risk bricking this because i have 2 other spare routers lying around both from a let's say "disposable"-but-reliable -as-well-depending-on-how-you-use-it brand one with wireless G and N in the other.One of the things i've noticed in DD WRT is that features like QoS seem buggy, when i make some configurations it slows internet connection to all end devices in the network, latencies occur too or maybe i configured it wrong, or maybe something happened during the flashing process that was incomplete i am not really sure, that's why i want to ask for another 3rd party firmware alternative so i can learn and put in there something else.
-
Reply to supermanu15
m
0
l
bill001g
May 18, 2014 12:57:12 PM
If you try to use advanced QoS options is will always greatly slow you down. The one in tomato is even worse it trys to look inside the packets for strings of data. You need a very fast cpu and even then if the traffic rate is high it will exceed the capacity of the router. The simple filter work ok in both dd-wrt and tomato. You pretty much need to use a PC running a firewall like pfsense to be able to use the very advanced QoS options.
QoS is mostly a waste of time. You can really only control data you send and the problem is almost always data you receive. A very limited number of application can be controlled by trying to restrict outbound data to control inbound but it take very a large amount of knowledge about the data streams to set the numbers correctly. It generally comes down to one person having to not be able to do what they want so another can get good performance.
QoS is mostly a waste of time. You can really only control data you send and the problem is almost always data you receive. A very limited number of application can be controlled by trying to restrict outbound data to control inbound but it take very a large amount of knowledge about the data streams to set the numbers correctly. It generally comes down to one person having to not be able to do what they want so another can get good performance.
-
Reply to bill001g
m
0
l
supermanu15
May 18, 2014 4:32:27 PM
bill001g said:
If you try to use advanced QoS options is will always greatly slow you down. The one in tomato is even worse it trys to look inside the packets for strings of data. You need a very fast cpu and even then if the traffic rate is high it will exceed the capacity of the router. The simple filter work ok in both dd-wrt and tomato. You pretty much need to use a PC running a firewall like pfsense to be able to use the very advanced QoS options.QoS is mostly a waste of time. You can really only control data you send and the problem is almost always data you receive. A very limited number of application can be controlled by trying to restrict outbound data to control inbound but it take very a large amount of knowledge about the data streams to set the numbers correctly. It generally comes down to one person having to not be able to do what they want so another can get good performance.
Oh about the QoS thing, it was just something I had to bring up to remind me of the only inconvenience I have with DD WRT, it is nothing that substantial really. As we speak I am browsing through google and youtube about how tomato works and what it looks like, its features and such. So you mean to tell me I'm better off with just my DD WRT configuration in my E1200?
-
Reply to supermanu15
m
0
l
Best solution
bill001g
May 18, 2014 5:11:02 PM
It is mostly personal preference and which features you need. Just using it as a wireless router they will be almost identical. Most advanced things on both devices require you to get your hands dirty and edit files in the underling unix system. IPTABLES command tends to be the most common since it is that command that controls most everything related to routing and filtering. You can load tomato and see if you like it better.
Most times I use third party firmware when I need vlan support or actual routing functions. All tend to be cryptic in their support compared to something like a commercial cisco or juniper router. You get spoiled on how easy commercial stuff is to configure and how many examples there are.
It will not hurt to load tomato but I suspect you will pretty quickly find out that you use only a very tiny subset of the features on either firmware The ASUS and TPLINK factory OS are getting extremely advanced and have many of the feature I used to load dd-wrt to get.
Most times I use third party firmware when I need vlan support or actual routing functions. All tend to be cryptic in their support compared to something like a commercial cisco or juniper router. You get spoiled on how easy commercial stuff is to configure and how many examples there are.
It will not hurt to load tomato but I suspect you will pretty quickly find out that you use only a very tiny subset of the features on either firmware The ASUS and TPLINK factory OS are getting extremely advanced and have many of the feature I used to load dd-wrt to get.
-
Reply to bill001g
Share
supermanu15
May 18, 2014 6:09:58 PM
bill001g said:
It is mostly personal preference and which features you need. Just using it as a wireless router they will be almost identical. Most advanced things on both devices require you to get your hands dirty and edit files in the underling unix system. IPTABLES command tends to be the most common since it is that command that controls most everything related to routing and filtering. You can load tomato and see if you like it better. Most times I use third party firmware when I need vlan support or actual routing functions. All tend to be cryptic in their support compared to something like a commercial cisco or juniper router. You get spoiled on how easy commercial stuff is to configure and how many examples there are.
It will not hurt to load tomato but I suspect you will pretty quickly find out that you use only a very tiny subset of the features on either firmware The ASUS and TPLINK factory OS are getting extremely advanced and have many of the feature I used to load dd-wrt to get.
Wow thanks for the information, I am learning something new
the thing is I don't think I'd be diving into those more advanced features. Ijust want to compare and see which firmware is more stable. But one of my question is since tomato is raised as one of the available firmwares, I am not sure if it supports E1200 v2
Thank you all for your help!
-
Reply to supermanu15
m
0
l
Read discussions in other Networking categories
!