DD-WRT experience?

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I just got a Linksys router and re-flashed it with the newest version of DD-WRT and also put in a much larger heat sink because you can up the "power" of it when using it as a wireless bridge to pick up much greater signal strength. This is the first time I have had any contact with a modded router such as this and I have been looking around to try to figure out a safe value to set the TX at and the default is 70, which is way stronger than what it was stock which was 25. With the larger heat sink on it now could anyone tell me what a decent place to set it would be for good performance now? I can't find anywhere if 70 is safe with the stock heat sink or if 70 is the safe zone for even a larger heat sink. Also, if you have a router that you can re-flash with DD-WRT, do it! It opens the thing up like you wouldn't believe. I got it just to use on my xbox 360, once I set it as a wireless bridge it was just plug in the ethernet cord and there I go, half the price of the M$ one and way more range:tup:


If I'm not using the correct terms or anything like that just let me know, I'm new to routers in general, much less re-flashing firmware on them.
 
I use DD-WRT with a Linksys, but i use DD-WRT v24-sp1 (07/26/08) std-special, and don't see that option. I did find this on a forum that had a question exactly as yours. It should help you:




You could notice better speeds by increasing it, IIRC the maximus safe setting is 70mw, and anything higher than that can cause heat issues.

I currrently have mine set to 56mw, and I get better signal quality throughout the house and such.

But if you don't see an increase in performance than I'd just return it to it's defualt setting becuase you can decrease the life expectancy of your product by increasing voltage.
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I just bought a WRT54GL myself. Planning on trying OpenWRT's White Russian on it when I get a little braver with it.
 
I have mine on 70mw right now, but like I said I do have a huge heat sink so that isn't an issue with mine. I'm guessing going past 70mw isn't a very good idea even with a large heat sink. I have been trying to find someone somewhere that has one set higher and how long they have had it set like that.
 
Before you go melting down a router, of all things, are you even getting noticeable improvement in the wifi range? You can also go grab a couple new antennae for less than $10 each to improve the range.
 
On 70 I didn't see anything, on 200 I seen about 30% increase, with the heat sink I have I am able to safely run it at 225mhz overclocked cpu and 250mw. My next thing to tackle is building me a directional antenna to raise the gain a good bit.
 
I'm using Tomato firmware. I didn't notice much of a difference, so now it's at the firmware's stock 42mW.

I heard that as you increase it, you will also get more noise. But I'm not sure how that works.
 
As soon as I get our net back in our house I'm pulling the power back on this guy to the stock 70mw on mine. I'm going to put it in the living room as a repeater so when my wife is in there she will have a perfect signal, my 360 will be in the pc room because I will be playing it through the new pc monitor. I originally bought the router and modded it to use just for my 360 since it was less than half the price to do that then to get the M$ brand one, but now we have a new monitor and its way better than my tv so that deal got thrown out the window days after I got the router finished. Figures.
 

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