Not all routers work with Tomato, but many of the major manufacturers and models are verified to work. The main brands that Tomato is compatible with are Netgear, Asus and Linksys routers, but a few others are covered as well.
The installation process varies slightly from one router to another but should only require a computer and an ethernet cable as well as about five to 10 minutes if everything works properly. Read our guide for the complete step-by-step instructions. Tomato is more secure than the standard firmware installed on your router. Tomato delivers a user-friendly experience while still improving router functionality.
DD-WRT is geared toward power users that want the absolute most out of their router without concern for how complicated it might get.
Tomato is an open-source firmware upgrade that improves the usability and overall functionality of your router in almost every way. While there are other third-party firmware options, which we look at in more detail in our Tomato vs DD-WRT comparison, Tomato is widely considered one of the best and the easiest to use.
To get Tomato onto your router, you will need an ethernet cable to connect a computer to your router and a computer to manage the installation process. Other than this small step, almost nothing is required other than downloading the firmware and possibly a utility software from your router manufacturer. While Tomato does not support as many models of routers as its main competitor, DD-WRT , it still covers many of the most popular brands out there, including Asus, Netgear and Linksys.
This table shows every model of router verified to work with Tomato and its compatible versions. While our router had this option, it would only accept official Asus firmware as an upgrade and not third-party firmware. Granted, this is the more complicated way to do things, so hopefully looking at this process with pictures first will make understanding the next two methods a bit easier. The first step of flashing the Tomato firmware onto any router will be roughly the same across compatible brands.
This is the best way to handle P2P. Max Bandwidth is important, because it can avoid queues and the consequent lag in the DSL modem. Set it to a little less than the known and measured maximum throughput of your outgoing DSL channel. Then tune this setting by saturating the outgoing channel run a long file upload to a fast server or similar and at the same time running ping tests and observing the turnaround times. If the setting is too high, you will observe too many unacceptably long turnaround times.
Reduce the Max Bandwidth setting until you are happy with the results. The Incoming settings in early versions of Tomato were rather different. The Maximum bandwidth setting was not an overall limit. It was just a figure used for calculating the class percentages. There were only limits on individual classes. You should use these carefully to prevent congestion on your incoming link. Note that limits work by dropping packets, forcing the TCP retransmission timers at the far end to back off, thus stabilizing the connections.
Hence UDP can't be "limited". Therefore, it is often necessary to set incoming limits rather lower than we would like, making a tradeoff in throughput for low latency and better stability.
Initial "reserved" class bandwidths and maximum class bandwidths are honoured. Individual class limits are now applied correctly. This firmware also has the ability to use your own names for the individual classes. A comprehensive set of QOS rules are included as examples for you to examine and tailor to your own requirements.
Tomato is a small, lean, open source alternative firmware for Broadcom-based routers. A router's graphical user interface is the most important part of the system because most users are unable or unwilling to configure a router by any other means. Tomato comes with a dated web interface with the option to change the color scheme but for some of us that is not enough. We will be using a Tomato mod built by Shibby. It only takes a few minutes to flash a router.
But it might you take a couple of hours to get comfortable enough to do it for the first time. I realize that you may have a different router. Or maybe or want to use different firmware than what I am using for this tutorial. But once you understand the flashing process, it will not matter what router or firmware you choose. The basics are the same. In such cases, proceed with flashing Tomato.
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