HI guys I need guidance which is better for my Netgear R7000 DD-WRT or Tomato. I need it to be 100% stable also need the best VPN options need the wireless and ethernet to also work flawless or should I stick to stock ?
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that's not a question that can be easily answered. it's mostly based on preference. DD-WRT uses a newer kernel and wireless drivers while Tomato sticks to whatever Braodcom provides, hence for it having hardware acceleration which is needed for anything above 300 Mbps speeds. I have little experience with DD-WRT but I know Tomato very well and it provides virtually everything that DD-WRT provides. DD-WRT has also a bigger development community (AFAIK). And it has a slightly faster release cycle
in the end, you have to make a choice yourself and see which fits your needs better. Both are decent firmware that also use up-to-date components compared to vendor firmware, which often uses (highly) outdated ones, introducing potentionally security issues. Vendor firmware is not known very much for updating something that works
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Routing: NETGEAR R7000 with Tomato Shibby
Switching: 2x NETGEAR 8-port Gigabit switches
NETGEAR Firmware Mirror: https://ngmirror.teambelgium.net/
Thanks for that information i have now flashed tomato and it is pretty good just had one question what is the difference between tomato AIO and VPN ?
All good just found the answer to my question thanks microchip for your help.