I finally upgraded the firmware on my Linksys router again. I was using Sveasoft Talisman version 1.1, which is several versions old by now. It has quite a few options the default Linksys software doesn’t give you. It was working fine for years but as a geek I’m compelled to think newer is always better. I loaded the router with v. 1.3 and within ten minutes my connection went down twice. I noticed the power button on the router flashing constantly instead of solid green. OK, that’s not good. I tried installing v. 1.2 to no avail.
I fire up Google for some help and see that both Sveasoft and DD-WRT have fallen out of favor with the open source software community. They’re both trying to make money off the software now. I decided to take a flyer and install Tomato v. 1.19. Tomato is an open source version of the Linksys software. So far it’s working great and it has some cool graphs. I’m going to play around with the Wi-Fi stuff to see if I can increase the coverage area to the other end of the apt.