[ur-whale]

> What is the best alternative router firmware these days

I don't know that there is one.

My experience these days when I install a new wifi router is wading through pages and pages of forum posts to try and identify the firmware (or particular build thereof) that will work best on the particular hardware I am configuring that day.

Usually, after a few hours of digging, I sort of "converge" on a particular firmware and a particular release.

Then it's on to experimenting if the thing actually works. If it doesn't, rinse and repeat.

This is very frustrating, and for a number of reasons:

    - From a security perspective, you end up installing a random unvetted piece of binary software on what is basically the gate holding the fort secure.

    - You operate on hearsay (forum posts)

    - There is no guarantee the process will converge.

[witten]

That's the old way of doing things. And I've been there. Do I want Tomato Shibby.. or will this other weird ROM work better? Hmm, the home page isn't in English on this one. And this other fork was last released March 2011..

No more of that. Today, buy a router OpenWrt supports and just install the official images and get on with your life.