Boost Your Router Signal with Tomato

A new piece of firmware has been released that allows us to increase signal power and boost it to high levels. Many of us know that “going wireless” with our routers can be one of the most annoying things which you experience as your likely to have experienced low signal levels or your connection simply just dropping while your playin over xbox live

With “Tomato” (new router firmware), you will never ever experience such troubles again!

“Tomato is a small, lean and simple replacement firmware for Linksys’ WRT54G/GL/GS, Buffalo WHR-G54S/WHR-HP-G54 and other Broadcom-based routers.”

It features a new easy to use GUI, a new bandwidth usage monitor, more advanced QOS and access restrictions, enables new wireless features such as WDS and wireless client modes, raises the limits on maximum connections for P2P, allows you to run your custom scripts or telnet/ssh in and do all sorts of things like re-program the SES/AOSS button, adds wireless site survey to see your wifi neighbors, and more.

As you can see from the image, you can produce graphs which show your signal levels and performance.

I have always believed the small things to be what makes a product/thing great. With Tomato you are offered many features -which you probably wont need - that are welcomed.

Tomato does almost everything DD-WRT does?from Wi-Fi signal boosting to Quality of Service bandwidth allocation?in addition to offering a simplified interface chock-full of fancy charts and graphs.

I would have written down a guide on how to upgrade your current router but it has been done already so if you want higher signal levels, no connection drops head on over to lifehacker now.

Thanks, el-F3r0z for letting us know!