If you are calling Skype to Skype and sharing Internet connection with roomies Skype calls can be sometimes painful. I have always used qos-scripts package in OpenWRT distro. But doing Skype qos is not easy without L7 protocol filters. I got finally fed up with choppy Skype calls and installed l7-protocols package. The only [...]
A little while ago OpenWRT 10.03 Backfire came out. I decided to take it for a spin. Until now I had been running OpenWRT 8.09. The other 8.09.X releases were to very stable for me. Backfire has been pretty stable so far on my Buffalo WHR-HP-G54DD. The only hickup during upgrade was opkg.conf file. I [...]
I recently switched some of my domains to Joker.com. One of the nice things Joker has is capability to dynamically update DNS records. I was going to use ez-ipupdate, but my OpenWRT router did not have enough free memory to install the package. It rummaging through FAQ on Joker website it turns out I can [...]
While back I got me one of these wireless routers from Buffalo. It Came pre-installed with dd-wrt. So I replaced it with most recent one from dd-wrt website. I was not very happy with it, so I replaced it with OpenWRT. OpenWRT 8.09RC1 worked reasonable well for me. Recently OpenWRT 8.09 final came out and [...]