Firmware any reason to use if your router works fine?

I finally have a router which will run DD-WRT. But, it seems to work fine w.out it. It is an Archer C7. People that run dd-wrt - is it worth it? What do you use it for?

it gives you better control of your router.
i used it to setup wireless bridges in the past.

i found out how to do that with the existing s/w. Does it make the router work better at all from a performance perspective?

I have 3 ddwrt routers around the house, and have 3 subnets so can allocate percentage of my bandwidth to each subnet.

jfish - what router(s) are you using?

etacovda said:

jfish - what router(s) are you using?

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I have a pfsense firewall running been WAN and LAN and have 4 wifi routers around the house

1 x WDR3600 running ddwrt
2 x TL-841N running ddwrt
1 x E2000 running Tomato Shibby

The pfsense also has a USB wifi plugged in and also running an wifi access point

yes I have a unhealthy fetish for wireless routers

flipyaforreal said:

I finally have a router which will run DD-WRT. But, it seems to work fine w.out it. It is an Archer C7. People that run dd-wrt - is it worth it? What do you use it for?

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If your router is stable just let it be.

If you want to do something that the original software doesnt do or your router crashes when you connect all your devices just change to ddwrt or openwrt. But beware, it's alot harder to use

Yes, because you will have features far beyond what you get for the same money using stock firmware.

Depends... is there something you want to do with your router that it does not do out of the box, or does it hang often?... if so.. yes flash it... if not... then why bother?

On Mikrotiks there is technique called MetaROUTER which may be used to install another operating system for router. I was using OpenWRT as a guest OS, but I thing that DD-WRT may be installed on the host. But I'm not sure.

It's a method to test DD-WRT and its functions without flashing the router.