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Pyrotechnic · 02-10-2006, 02:07 PM

I run Bittorrent and eMule on 2 machines on my network. I notice that sometimes it really tends to bog down the network, not because i'm getting blinding fast download rates, but because theres more connections that my router can handle. My router is a Netgear RP614 v2 with the latest firmware. Before I flashed the firmware it would crash about every 10 min. Now it does not crash, but the internet connection can get slow sometimes.

I was thinking about building a small minimalist system and running a minimal version of linux on it. Years ago I used an old K62 300 system and ran smoothwall on it and that was my router. Later on I bought a real router switch combo, just because it was more compact, consumed less power, quiter, etc.

So should I build my own router ? I have the most of the parts to build a small and quiet celeron 600 setup.

02-10-2006, 02:07 PM	#1
Pyrotechnic Cooling Savant Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 240	Routers and P2P I run Bittorrent and eMule on 2 machines on my network. I notice that sometimes it really tends to bog down the network, not because i'm getting blinding fast download rates, but because theres more connections that my router can handle. My router is a Netgear RP614 v2 with the latest firmware. Before I flashed the firmware it would crash about every 10 min. Now it does not crash, but the internet connection can get slow sometimes. I was thinking about building a small minimalist system and running a minimal version of linux on it. Years ago I used an old K62 300 system and ran smoothwall on it and that was my router. Later on I bought a real router switch combo, just because it was more compact, consumed less power, quiter, etc. So should I build my own router ? I have the most of the parts to build a small and quiet celeron 600 setup.