[lug] DD-WRT

[Ken MacFerrin]

Nate Duehr wrote:
> 
> Mem: 10484K used, 19736K free, 0K shrd, 1392K buff, 3912K cached

Looks about the same as the other firmwares I've tried. Although I've 
noticed if you turn off https for the web interface it will take a full 
MB off memory usage in the Sveasoft FW.

> 
> This is on a WRT54GS v2.0 which has more memory overall than the v4.0 
> model.
> 
> Not sure what "average" load is for my house... when I'm home, the 
> upstream link is usually maxed out doing SOMETHING... heh.
> 
> No, I'm not there right now.  ;-)
> 
> There's a couple of servers handing out webpages and mail services 
> there... kinda running all day at what I would still call "light" load 
> levels... 1000 messages a day on e-mail.  Probably similar load levels 
> for Apache... nothing huge.
> 
> Have not had any chance to test QoS, but will have to shortly... been 
> messing with Skype and Asterisk and finding that big traffic = big mess 
> on the audio quality (of course).
> 

This is what I'm really interested in.  I have 2 ATA's with 3 Vonage 
lines running behind one of my WRT54G's on a Comcast HSI connection. 
I've tried many different combos of QoS settings but have yet to find 
one that works well under any real load.  Most any time there is heavy 
traffic (especially upstream) the voice quality takes a nosedive.  I'd 
love to find a firmware that could get VoIP QoS right.  Most the 
firmwares will allow you prioritize SIP but it's not much help as SIP is 
only used to setup the VoIP connection.  The actual voice protocol is 
usually RTP or some other protocol that that's similarly hard to track.. 
  -Ken