I just upgraded from v23 SP2 to the new v24 SP1 firmware from dd-wrt. I am hoping my internet connection is more stable with the new release, since I moved I have been having intermittent issues where the connection drops for a few seconds throughout the day. Dd-wrt doesn't seem to produce comprehensive release notes so here is my list of things I like in the new version.
- MAC address are linked to the IEEE vendor search so you can click on a MAC address and find the vendor of the Ethernet card.
- There is now a bandwidth monitor with a very cool scrolling graph, three graphs actually LAN, WAN & wireless.
- Active IP Connections now has a popup that lists all the connections. It would be nicer if you could sort by connection type, all the stale connections are not so interesting.
- There is a traffic counter for the wan link, in the last 32 minutes I have downloaded 8MB and uploaded 1MB of stuff. And a bit more in the picture.
That is all the flashy stuff they added. Other things that I am interested in that look improved are VPN support, and hopefully a fix for my mysterious network issues. My ISP says no issue on their end, not that they are trust worthy in that regard. And I can't really phone them up when the connection goes down because it would be back up before I would be able to get through to anyone. So I am crossing my fingers that the problem is on my end and therefore fixable.