I've had similar results to you. Packet loss even when not transcoding. Overall poor performance across the board. We considered it a failed experiment.
N. Zoaaaaa wrote: > I have played with DD-WRT on linksys wrt54g version 5 last week (2 > different ones, they are the model with less memory so i needed to use > the micro version). I tried to use it as a repeater. (might have > something to do with it) > > So far i read reports on great succes everywhere, my experience are not > as good, the machines become highly unstable and i experienced heavy > packetloss at random times. Encryption didn't work at all. > Maybe other versions (with more memory or faster CPU's) are better, but > my results were a disaster and i would not consider running Asterisk on > top of that. > > Joachim > > David Cook wrote: > >> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: >> >> >> >>> 1) The latest 8.09 kamikaze no longer supports the Broadcom radios, so ... >>> >>> >>> >> Because of closed-source drivers the Broadcom chips only work on the 2.4 >> series kernels. OpenWRT does make a 2.4 kernel version _and_ a 2.6 kernel >> version. Use the 2.4 and the radios work fine. >> >> >> >>> 2) I suppose this should have been clear to me from the start, but without >>> an external (or hacked internal) storage of some kind, running asterisk on >>> >>> >> Make sure you have the right version number within the Linksys model. They >> changed drastically the RAM/Flash in the units (downward) as the production >> ran on. There are some charts online to go by. But the skinny is use a >> WRT54GS v4 or lower. V1.1 & 2 were the "good" ones with double the RAM. >> >> >> >>> 3) OpenWRT seems to be less stable and not as mature as dd-wrt, which I >>> >>> >> I guess this is someone subjective and OpenWRT is somewhat in flux with 2 >> products under the same brand right now. >> >> White Russian was the previous release which is still available. Used >> predominantly NVRAM configs and had a smaller audience of platforms that it >> would support. It did however have a great GUI with lots of features. >> >> Kamikaze is the "new" version which has moved to more traditional config >> files and has an objective to be more platform agnostic. >> >> As a long-time White Russian user I admit the GUI has a long way to go >> before it can be considered a replacement for the White Russian version. I >> myself have never encountered stability problems with either version. >> >> Not sure how much DD-WRT has improved. A few years back OpenWRT was the >> clear winner (in my mind - no flames please) and I haven't re-evaluated the >> competition lately. >> >> -dbc. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- >> >> AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona >> Register Now: http://www.astricon.net >> >> asterisk-users mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona > Register Now: http://www.astricon.net > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users