Most of the time a smartphone's wifi hotspot isn't powerful enough. So you might want to use the internet via usb tethering to router for better wifi coverage. I'm pretty sure […]
Download torrents on OpenWrt with Transmission web interface
It's pretty practical to download torrents directly on a router running OpenwWrt, instead of using another device like a smartphone, laptop or a Raspberry Pi. Well, not every cheap router […]
How to build OpenWrt minimal image, or a custom firmware
OpenWrt needs no further introduction, straight to the point, as OpenWrt is bloating day by day, so how to build OpenWrt minimal image that will fit in routers with 4 MB […]
OpenWrt Tor proxy and anonymizing middlebox setup
Online privacy is now everybody's concern, debates over online privacy is buzzing everywhere, and Tor is here to protect you from the prying eyes. Tor is fairly documented and well […]
OpenWrt torrent download box with LuCI web interface
What about using your OpenWrt router as OpenWrt torrent downloader box ? Far better than using a smartphone or laptop for this purpose. There are many openwrt torrent clients, ctorrent, very […]
How to setup OpenWrt QoS with luci-app-sqm
Fair bandwidth sharing among different devices may be an issue on a local network, say torrent client on the PC sucking all upload bandwidth. If the router is running openwrt, […]
Boot Slitaz from a OpenWrt pxe boot server
Slitaz is an extremely lightweight GNU/Linux distribution specially for resource limited systems, just around 42MB. This tiny distro packs enough feature reach tool sufficient for regular use. Slitaz's openbox and LXDE […]
Booting Slax Linux from OpenWrt PXE server
First of all, if you don't know what is Slax, it's a highly usable and compact slackware based GNU/Linux live CD distro just around 230 MB. It's one of the […]
How to setup a multiboot PXE server with OpenWrt
PXE servers are cool, boot one or many machines over the network, install a new OS, run live CDs on disk-less machines, etc. etc. Why not setup a multiboot PXE […]
How to setup an OpenWrt PXE boot server
Have a router with OpenWrt installed ? Why not use it for something else ? As a OpenWrt PXE server for booting your favorite Linux/UNIX distro. Possibilities with a PXE […]