I saw this post and decided to opt to use OpenDNS as my DNS server instead of my ISP’s server. I followed these instructions to set it up. Basically, I activated a second DDNS service (Basic > DDNS) and entered my login information for OpenDNS. When activating it, I set it to update my dynamic… Read more »
I already discussed how one can make use of Google Voice with Asterisk – the possibilities are limitless. However, all this requires a server running Asterisk. I recently explored how one can explore other options of Google Voice (or other VoIP services) without the use of a server. Since I own routers running tomato and… Read more »
My primary router is on tomato, and since I’ve been liking it so much, I decided to load tomato on my wireless bridge. After doing so, I followed these instructions (Wireless Ethernet bridge mode) to it to connect to the primary router. It was way easier than doing so on DD-WRT, and access to the… Read more »
I assume you have a compatible router with usb ports with the Teddy Bear mod Tomato firmware installed. These instructions show that the USB NAS portion is quite easy. Once the hard drives are connected, they are automatically mounted in the router’s Linux OS. A computer on the same network can connect to the router’s… Read more »
All my routers at home are either on the Tomato firmware or DD-WRT. I’ve set up wireless bridge many times but keep having to google it up as I keep forgetting the exact steps. I’m going to record it now for my reference. The following is taken from here, the V24 build instructions. Do a… Read more »
Recently I’ve been playing with DD-WRT as my firmware of choice for my main router at home and the one I use as a wireless bridge. I recently purchased an Asus RT-N16 for a variety of reasons: Gigabit ethernet, DD-WRT, 2 usb ports (for NAS and printers), Wireless N, and Great with bittorrent. Reason 1… Read more »
I recently bought a refurbished linksys wrt160n-rm from amazon for $31. I ordered it before getting DD-WRT working on my trendnet router. I didn’t want to hassle with returning it, so I decided to turn it into a wireless bridge, something I wanted to do for a while. With the refurbished router, I had to… Read more »
So I own a relatively inexpensive trendnet router (on sale ~ $25) for a while now, and I’ve been trying to get DD-WRT working with it since having it. This site says it is supported, but I couldn’t find a firmware available until now. This post (page 16) has a link to this site that… Read more »
so i started running my own servers, one at school and one at home to test things such as a webserver. at school, no problem. got them to give me a hostname and to open certain ports (22 and 80). at home, since i’m on a home network which has one public ip to my… Read more »