TP-Link TL-WR1043ND and OpenWrt 12.09 with two SSIDs (MultiSSID) - private and guest

I decided to change my home network to match the following "network diagram":

The core part of the design is TP-Link TL-WR1043ND wifi router running OpenWrt with small 16GB USB stick [/dev/sda1] containing ext3 partition with OpenWrt configuration + swap.

There are also 16GB USB stick and 2 thermometers connected using USB <-> Serial connector (bought on eBay):

I'm going to use the last stable version of the OpenWrt firmware: openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr1043nd-v1-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

Upgrade the firmware and remove the old configuration:

rm -r /tmp/opkg-lists/
sysctl -w vm.drop_caches=1
sysupgrade -v -n http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09/ar71xx/generic/openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr1043nd-v1-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

Here are the notes how way how I configured it.

If you don't like the commands feel free to check the configs here: https://github.com/ruzickap/linux.xvx.cz/tree/gh-pages/files/openwrt

OpenWrt with Transmission, Samba and vsftpd

My brother asked me to customize firmware in his WiFi router TP-Link TL-WR1043ND. He wants to use if for downloading torrents and sharing them using smb and ftp protocols.

I have good experiences with OpenWrt, which is really good in customization and suits well for this purpose. Nowadays you there are few torrent clients in OpenWrt distribution, but I choose transmission and for ftp daemon vsftpd.