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If you're downloading stuff from a content distribution network then choosing a DNS that isn't geographically local can mean you are downloading from the "wrong" site for your location.

Thanks for looking into this. Yes, the web usage monitor was active. My timezone is NZDT (edit: UTC+13) so it is the right amount of shift, not sure why it would need to do it again after startup though. The firewall config was 9 access restrictions and two exceptions (the exceptions weren't enabled...

I had a constant rebooting problem with 1.4.2 on a WR1043ND that I described in this post: http://www.gargoyle-router.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1868&p=8326#p8326 It was fixed by reflashing to 1.4.2 and restoring config but if there's anything else I could have done to document the proble...

I just had almost exactly the same problem on a TP-Link WR1043ND with 1.4.2, it would crash when I changed the firewall restrictions config or tried to do a backup, then it would be stuck in a boot/reboot loop. It stayed up long enough to let me get an SSH login and access one or two config web page...

Working great for me on 1043ND as an upgrade from v1.3.14. Settings are persistent after reboot, OpenDNS update works fine.

The main reason the article was deleted was because Gargoyle has not been reviewed in detail in many "reliable sources" (by Wikipedia's definition of a reliable source) yet. It would be best to try to get a decent review or two of Gargoyle in high-profile sources first, so the article will...

I did it this way: On the Connection> Basic page leave "Alternate DNS" as "Allow clients to use alternate DNS servers", and enter the OpenDNS servers as the Custom DNS servers. On the Firewall>Restrictions page add a new restriction for all hosts except the ones you want to allow...