Router Reboot
- June 11th, 2006
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I finally took the plunge today and installed some alternative [tag]firmware[/tag] on my [tag]router[/tag]. [tag]Linksys[/tag] is well known for it hackability and it’s something that I’ve been meaning to get around to for a while now.
The upgrade was fairly painless, though I did find I had to close the browser after re-setting it. That key instruction was missing and I was sure I had turned my router into a brick before I figured it out.
The feature list is really cool, though all I’ve done is to boost my [tag]wireless[/tag] signal strength. So far I haven’t noticed a jump but I was kinda conservative in my setting. The firmware has a huge feature set and I’d say that I understand about 5% of it.
Of course that’s not really the point, is it?
Both your links are toast. I really want to get them. I want to boost the output on my wrt-11g v1.1. Got to be better than buying those high gain antennas for $79 bucks.
Thanks Dan, they have a stupid page naming convention and I didn’t notice the link was bad. Why yes, I do work in QA… I fixed the link and deleted the other as it was just an anchor to the feature list.
It’s pretty cool but to be honest, I haven’t seen any higher signal numbers. They quote a range and I didn’t bump it by much; I think i went from 28 up to 56. Apparently it drains the battery quickly if it gets set too high.
Let me know how it works for you.
I had a weird experience with Linksys.
At my suggestion, the boss bought a Buffalo Network Attached Storage server. I took it to the hanger to install and config it to be used as a file server and backup server. Unfortunately, the server would never automatically obtain an IP address, nor would a manually assigned IP let the server be visible on the network. Even updating the firmware did nothing.
I took it home and it worked straight away… weird.
So I bought a newer Linksys router (turns out both London Drugs and Staples no longer stock Netgear routers for some odd reason) and brought it to the hanger, installed it and plugged the server back in…. low and behold, it works.
How odd.
PS
Comments are barely visible in Firefox. Very light grey on a white background.
What gives?
Sorry, I should clarify…. YOUR comments (midbach) are barely visible.
looks like the author comments got turned on when I upgraded WordPress last night. I’ll need to fix the CSS.
I don’t get the NAS problem. If you didn’t have a router, what was handing out the IPs?
Of course you’re not going to be able to read this until I fix the CSS so I’ll take this chance to call you a poofter.
Hey, I know how to highlight, bitch.
That’s just it about the router…. it was handing out IPs just fine to the 2 computers previously hooked into it. When I attached the NAS to the network, it was unable to obtain an IP.
It was as if the router wasn’t handshaking with the NAS properly. As soon as I bought a newer version of the router, all was good.
Hey Mark, I still can’t access that link. Even a verbal description will do. I get an error saying that the document has moved or it’s a bad link.
Gotta be Opera dude… http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php?title=DD-WRT_Docu_(EN)
I’m quie sure it’s the “(EN)” causing the problem. If it still doesn’t work, paste this link and click on English: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page