Dark Liquid

Today I installed DD-WRT on my new Buffalo WHR-G54S router and I am very impressed. It was pretty easy too. Since I have to network cards, I just plugged it into my spare card and configured it on that without needing to disconnect myself from the internet (and hence lose access to the online installation instructions).

Not bad really, for about £30 I’ve now got a very nice router with a nice set of QoS, firewall, VPN and VoIP capabilities, among other things. Pity the stupid confusing naming of ‘DSL Routers’ caught me out this time and so this doesn’t have an ADSL modem in-built, but thats alright, I just need to get myself a dead simple 1 ethernet-port ADSL modem (or router/modem if cheaper) and slap this on the end.

I just need to get around to actually configuring it for the main network and then plugging it in between the modem and the rest of the network. Then I’ll configure some nice QoS settings on it so that things like bittorrent and what not get throttled back in favour of browsing and gaming,

Damn I love open-source software.