Guspaz
Guspaz
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join:2001-11-05
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| Tomato/MLPPP released (evade throttle or bond two DSL lines)
Attached to this post you will find the first release of Tomato/MLPPP, a fork of the popular Tomato firmware for various consumer broadband routers. It allows you to bond two or more DSL lines to multiply your speed, and also circumvents Bell's throttling even if you only have one DSL line.
Attached to this post, you will find v1.19-mp1 of the firmware, as well as the source.
This firmware has only been tested on the WRT54GL v1.1, but should run on the following routers:
- Linksys WRT54G v1-v4, WRT54GS v1-v4, WRT54GL v1.x, WRTSL54GS (no USB support)
- Buffalo WHR-G54S, WHR-HP-G54, WZR-G54, WBR2-G54
- Asus WL500G Premium (no USB support) |
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ymboc
join:2003-02-22
Ottawa, ON
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| Very Nice. Will try out immediately. Can you comment if you've included other improvements to tomato mentioned here? If not, is it something you might consider? |
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SSP
join:2007-04-30 | reply to Guspaz
Any chance Bell can turn a dial and throttle this method? |
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Guspaz
Guspaz
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join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC | reply to ymboc
Most of those enhancements were already merged into Tomato v1.18 mainline. There doesn't seem to be much left that's different by v1.19. |
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Radar73
join:2008-01-20
Ajax, ON
| reply to Guspaz
Actually that blog talks about enhancements to v1.19 that aren't in the stock .. unless I misread it. Have you had any communication with the Tomato guy about incorporating this in the official release?
BTW .. thanks for all your efforts in getting this to work. Thousands will thank you I'm sure. |
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Guspaz
Guspaz
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join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC | As far as I can tell, the only changes that are new in v1.19 are "Tuned IP route cache parameters".
Regardless, we don't have any plans to merge in those changes. |
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Steve Jobs
American living in Canada
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join:2002-06-23
Scarborough, ON
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| Tomato 1.19
* Removed route hash size changes. This seems to have caused overflow and "rusty's brain broke" errors for some people.
* Fixed disabled GUI button was not dimmed.
* Updated DST for France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden timezones.
* Updated L7 patterns 2008-02-20. |
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emoci
join:2007-05-29
York, ON | reply to Guspaz
Maybe a stupid question, but did you guys manage to get a simple GUI on to make neccessary changes, or is it still command line...
Been using DD-WRT, but willing to try Tomato if this works.... |
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Gokuu
join:2001-08-27
| reply to Guspaz
My understanding is that those speed enhancements (in 1.18) were removed in 1.19 b/c of issues.
»www.polarcloud.com/tomato_119
said by Guspaz  :Most of those enhancements were already merged into Tomato v1.18 mainline. There doesn't seem to be much left that's different by v1.19. |
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Guspaz
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| reply to SSP
said by SSP :Any chance Bell can turn a dial and throttle this method? They can't just "turn a dial", but they could take the time and effort with their current hardware to throttle single-link MLPPP.
We think they'd require software updates from Ellacoya to even be able to throttle a proper multi-link (or fake multi-link) setup.
Either way, it works to evade throttling for now, and will always let you bond two connections. |
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Guspaz
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1 edit | reply to emoci
This is all configurable through the UI now. In fact, most users only really need to care about the "MultiLink PPP" dropdown. They'll want to change it from "Off" to either "Single Link" or "Multiple Links", and plug their second modem in if they have one.
EDIT: If some of those changes were removed in v1.19, all the more reason NOT to apply them. |
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Radar73
join:2008-01-20
Ajax, ON
| said by Guspaz :EDIT: If some of those changes were removed in v1.19, all the more reason NOT to apply them. Good point.
Im using the new firmware now for single-link. I like the simple interface change you made to add MLPPP. Very well done indeed. |
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emoci
join:2007-05-29
York, ON
| reply to Guspaz
Is the second modem by default going in Lan 1, or is that configurable as well?
Now, better set up a donation box, because any effort to escape throttling should be funded in my view  |
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emoci
join:2007-05-29
York, ON | reply to Guspaz
BTW, anyone have an issue with the .rar
I can open the rar for the source but not the firmware...(using WinRar) |
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An Onymous
@teksavvy.com
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My personal view on single line MLPPP is that Bell could do something between now and fall. As more users are using this, it would eventually show up on the radar screen. Hopefully the privacy commission would buy us a C&D. Fingers crossed.
As for multiple lines, it might be tougher for them. |
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ymboc
join:2003-02-22
Ottawa, ON
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2 edits | reply to Guspaz
Bit of a followup... Got it going, Cleared NVRam and all that. Router Config Pages & Internet feel significantly more sluggish compared to before yet CPU/mem/etc usage on router is normal. Can anyone else confirm?
Aside from a standard configuration only thing that I've really changed is the router IP to 10.0.0.1... but it couldn't/shouldn't be related to that could it?
Hardware: WRTG54GS v1 (Single Link)
Torrents are much faster however... |
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Guspaz
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| reply to emoci
said by emoci :Is the second modem by default going in Lan 1, or is that configurable as well? Now, better set up a donation box, because any effort to escape throttling should be funded in my view The second modem can be plugged into any switch port, the initial discovery is done using broadcasts.
I thought of accepting donations to get myself a second line for "testing", but then JayMan gave us access to his network, eliminating that possible excuse :P |
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Guspaz
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| reply to emoci
said by emoci :BTW, anyone have an issue with the .rar I can open the rar for the source but not the firmware...(using WinRar) Make sure your version of WinRAR isn't too old. They sometimes update the RAR spec. |
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ymboc
join:2003-02-22
Ottawa, ON
2 edits | I found I had to be logged in for the rar to download properly... otherwise it just saved the DSLReports error message as a rar file. |
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Guspaz
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| reply to ymboc
said by ymboc :Bit of a followup... Got it going, Cleared NVRam and all that. Router Config Pages & Internet feel significantly more sluggish compared to before yet CPU/mem/etc usage on router is normal. Can anyone else confirm? We haven't experienced any sort of slowdown on the WRT54GLs, and those have half the RAM of your WRT54GS. |
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