Your freshly purchased your favorite best router has a ton of
potential, however sadly the manufacturer sometimes downplays the capabilities
by solely enabling restricted options. Here’s a way to unleash a number of
those options with an open source code.
The firmware we’ll be using these days is
named Tomato. It is not exactly the wifi range extender but it’s a open
source code as mentioned above and it really helps boost the network
performance for you.
What is Tomato?
It’s a delicious fruit you eat that may
help stop cancer due to its high levels of lycopene. Some individuals enjoy
tomatoes on hamburgers and in salads. Oh! Did
you wish to grasp about Tomato as within the powerful, user-friendly, full-of-features, different
router firmware? Well, why didn’t you say so?
The original code that comes put in on your
router will the basics, however, Tomato
offers a wider vary of options as well as our favorite,
bandwidth monitoring. You don’t ought to take advantage
of all of Tomato’s options to relish it; we would even recommend it to novice
users as a result of it’s really easy to use.
Installing Tomato
The first thing you’ll wish to do is ready up your router on your network. By
default, most routers can have an interior IP address of 192.168.1.1. Open up
your browser and enter your router’s IP address. You’ll be prompted for a
username and password. The defaults for a Linksys WRT54GL are “admin” and
“admin”. Keep this window up as a result of we’ll be returning to it shortly.
Open up your browser session from earlier
and click on the Administration tab at the highest.
