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I guess my subject is pretty self-explainatory, but I was wondering if anyone had any experience using any 3rd party firmware on a Linksys WRT300N. I spent a good part of the evening last night trying to get my router to quit dropping its speed and tried putting dd-wrt on it and it worked great! except for the fact that I couldnt connect to the freaking internet! so i ended up just reinstalling the linksys firmware and its working fine for now but I would like to try it again.

Anyone out there in the TPU world that can help me??
 
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there was a whole group of guys on here who did just this a while ago. Let me see if I can search the thread, as it lead to charts to tell which routers were ok and what was able to be done afterwards!


Link! Now the thread start out on a different router, but I think if you skim through it , this thread may answer alot of questions.
 
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thanks for the link, but that unfortunately doesnt tell me anything I dont know.. plus they were talking about a Buffalo brand router :D
 
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sorry, I was sure the link to the acceptable routers had Buffalo on it as well.


This list here shows that your router is not compatable , or at least at the time of the article, was able to run dd-wrt correctly.
 
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Ok I missed the link the first time and it says my Linksys is supported but I cant figure out where to find an updated firmware that will actually allow my internet to work.. I tried the dd-wrt that i found last night and it gave me a terrible signal and no WAN connectivity..
 
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I use DD-WRT on a WRT-350N and it runs flawlessly... they're very similar routers the 300 and the 350. You better use the latest RC candidate for v24 though.
 
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ChaoticBlankness said:
I use DD-WRT on a WRT-350N and it runs flawlessly... they're very similar routers the 300 and the 350. You better use the latest RC candidate for v24 though.
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Im not sure what you mean by the latest RC candidate..
 
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i have dd-wrt on the following routers...
wrt54g
wrt150n
wrt300n
wrt350n
wrt600n

all is good and they run well. the wrt330 i have runs a bit faster but doesn't yet support dd-wrt.
 
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CarolinaKSU said:
Im not sure what you mean by the latest RC candidate..
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RC = Release Candidate for the newest version.. it's in their download section.
 
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ok found the release candidate section and not the betas which is what i think i had before.. the latest file that has a WRT300N in it is from Nov 11 07, is that really the latest?

edit: ok never mind i found the latest ones, just didnt scroll down far enough.. is the mini version the correct one to use?
 
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thats the one I'm using on all of mine.

Its the rc4 I believe.
 
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fitseries3 said:
thats the one I'm using on all of mine.

Its the rc4 I believe.
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Ok cool, its rc5 but is the latest one.. ill give this a try later when my roomates arent home and torrenting so i dont get bitched at for taking the network down..

p.s: double thanks for the new GTS!! cant wait to give her a try and possibly get an aftermarket cooler and o/c :rockout:
 
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