I absolutely LOVE my WRT54GS Linksys/Cisco router. I have the one with 32mb of RAM and this thing is great. I was running the Thibor/HyperWRT firmware on it, but there were a few things I was having problems doing, so I moved to DD-WRT, which I’m liking very much.
I am purchasing a LaCie 500gb network disk soon. The point of this is to serve as a network media drive for myself and my almost-roommate (lives next door) Rich. We’ve got copper running between our apartments with gigabit switching and it seems to work well.
My hope is to get rtorrent/ctorrent installed on the WRT54GS, and have the ability to just drag .torrent files into a folder, which would be checked by a cron job every 15 minutes or so, that would put start up the download of new torrents to the shared network drive. We each use laptops, so keeping downloads going throughout the day is impractical for the most part. This way either of us could initiate the download of torrents (legal ones like WoW patches, or Linux images of course!) and both of us could use the files instantly, without having to wait for the other one to mount hard drives on their laptop.
I’m having problems getting ctorrent to install, using ipkg. Dependancy issues. Grr. If anyone knows more about ctorrent or is a master of the DD-WRT please let me know.
