[tredre3]

I really like Tomato's UI, it's very intuitive. Especially how easy it is to create virtual SSIDs and isolate them on their own VLAN. It's two clicks. It will create the bridge and the VLAN and the DNS for you. Comparatively, in LuCI you have to do all those steps separately in different pages and somehow know how to make it all work.

[lhamil64]

I use Tomato on my AP (my old router). I eventually picked up a used Sophos device and installed Opnsense mainly to play around with it. Opnsense/pfsense definitely have a learning curve whereas Tomato was super easy to setup.

My one gripe with Tomato is, unless I missed something, upgrading your firmware is kind of a pain. You have to go out to the website, find the image for the latest version for your specific model of router, download it and then go into the UI and flash it. They even suggest wiping NVRAM which clears all your settings (I never bothered with that and it worked fine for me). It would be nice if they just had a "click here to update" button, especially since keeping your firewall/router up to date is pretty important for security.

[7j67nm6nm6]

Having used Tomato, DD-WRT and currently OpenWRT/LuCI I rank Tomato with having the best UI. DD-WRT a distant second and OpenWRT/LuCI much further down the list.

[Abishek_Muthian]

Is WiFi security open by default in Tomato still? Several years ago I had Tomato in one of my routers with WiFi disabled, it reset itself one day and since WiFi security was open by default anyone could have got into my network; Thankfully I had the antennas removed that time so I assume no one did.

Could be a bug in Tomato or nvram issue within router although I didn't have this issue with other firmware.