Banana Pi BPI-R3 Mini

Banana Pi BPI-R3 Mini

Tomato64 now runs on the Banana Pi BPI-R3 Mini! Mediatek MT7986(Filogic 830) Quad core ARM Cortex A53 AX4200 Wifi (2.4G/5G) 2x 2.5G ports 2G RAM 8G eMMC flash 1x M.2 Key M PCIe interface 1x M.2 Key B USB interface 1x USB2.0 This was a fun port for me to do.  The BPI-R3 Mini runs…

Hardware Acceleration

Hardware Acceleration

One new feature in the 2025.1 Release is support for “Routing/NAT Offloading”, aka  Hardware Acceleration.  With this feature you can max out a 2.5G internet connection using the 2.5G ports! When enabled the CPU is barely used, so it has more cpu cycles to do other tasks.  You can enable this feature by navigating to…

Now With Wifi Statistics!

Now With Wifi Statistics!

Just a quick blurb about this new integration.  Now that a wireless GUI has been built I’ve updated the status-devices page as well. For wireless devices you can now see their signal strength, connection speed and on which network and wireless interface they are connected to. I also fixed the “Delete Lease” function so it…

Announcing Tomato64

Announcing Tomato64

Hi, my name is Lance Fredrickson. My project, Tomato64, is a port of Tomato Firmware to the x86_64 architecture. I’ve been spending nearly all of my free time working on it for the past 10 months, and I think it’s ready to share with the world. I’m a longtime user and contributor to Tomato Firmware…