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So How Fast Is NAS Under Tomato? You May Be Surprised!

15 Feb

So How Fast Is NAS Under Tomato? You May Be Surprised!

Hav­ing suc­cess­fully setup a low cost NAS, I wanted to find out how fast my NAS was. More so, since the folks at DD-WRT and Tomato worked pretty hard to get USB work­ing on the Asus 520gu. It all boiled down to Samba ver­sus Win­dows. The results were an eye opener!

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Setting Up A Low Cost NAS Using Tomato

14 Feb

Setting Up A Low Cost NAS Using Tomato

In this post I’ll describe the steps needed to setup a low cost NAS using the Tomato firmware on the Asus 520gu.  This should work with Asus 500 as well.

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An Easy Guide to Installing Tomato on the Asus 520gu

31 Jan

An Easy Guide to Installing Tomato on the Asus 520gu

Before installing Tomato, I thought DD-WRT was the best router firmware there is.  But Tomato is as good as DD-WRT and scores on usabil­ity and QOS as well, two areas where DD-WRT needs improvement.

The Asus 520gu gives you the best bang for the buck. It looks sleek in white as opposed to the ugly black and blue Linksys ‘brick’, has a USB 2.0 port which can be hooked up to a printer or an exter­nal stor­age or both via a USB hub and comes with 16MB RAM and 4MB flash. (more…)

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