Author Topic: WZR-HP-G300NH - Where is the new firmware?  (Read 5844 times)

nareshseep

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Re: WZR-HP-G300NH - Where is the new firmware?
« Reply #15 on: June 08, 2011, 09:45:11 AM »

Does openwrt give better wireless support than ddwrt?


John_M

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Re: WZR-HP-G300NH - Where is the new firmware?
« Reply #16 on: June 08, 2011, 10:14:20 AM »

 


nareshseep wrote:

Does openwrt give better wireless support than ddwrt?


For me it does.  I've been using Gargoyle (built on top of OpenWRT) with good success.  Full TX power, no wireless or WAN drops.

 


slybunda

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Re: WZR-HP-G300NH - Where is the new firmware?
« Reply #17 on: June 09, 2011, 09:57:03 AM »

any guide on hot to install openwrt or where to even get it from for this router?

thanks


KingJL

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Re: WZR-HP-G300NH - Where is the new firmware?
« Reply #18 on: June 09, 2011, 10:50:15 AM »

slybunda wrote:

any guide on hot to install openwrt or where to even get it from for this router?

thanks


The most pain-free method would be here:

http://www.gargoyle-router.com/

 

Go to the downloads page and select 'Atheros AR71XX" architecture.  I would do a little reading of the installation instructions, etc. first.


slybunda

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Re: WZR-HP-G300NH - Where is the new firmware?
« Reply #19 on: June 09, 2011, 02:45:29 PM »

is it possible to revert back to stock firmware? if so how is it done?


KingJL

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Re: WZR-HP-G300NH - Where is the new firmware?
« Reply #20 on: June 09, 2011, 06:41:48 PM »

 


slybunda wrote:

is it possible to revert back to stock firmware? if so how is it done?


tftp (more easily done from a linux platform).  There are threads on dd-wrt on the procedudure and I think that the Openwrt wiki entry for the wzr-hp-g300nh also mentions the procedure!

 

 

But... I don't think you'll want to revert!!!!


slybunda

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Re: WZR-HP-G300NH - Where is the new firmware?
« Reply #21 on: June 09, 2011, 08:30:39 PM »

how is stability with openwrt? im guessing the improvments are because its using the ath9k driver for the wifi?


John_M

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Re: WZR-HP-G300NH - Where is the new firmware?
« Reply #22 on: June 10, 2011, 01:00:25 PM »

Pretty good.  I've been up 15 days w/o  a reboot and w/o a connection drop.


mimmic

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Re: WZR-HP-G300NH - Where is the new firmware?
« Reply #23 on: June 14, 2011, 06:37:29 PM »

Buffalo encrypts their firmware (sorta) so that only the User Friendly and Buffalo Branded firmware (currently installed) will take them.  I however found instructions on how to strip the encrypted header from the firmware. 

 

I've used this going from OpenWRT to the 14998 dd-wrt firmware. 

 

You'll need an application called DD (comes standard in linux but is a needed download for windows users).  http://www.chrysocome.net/dd?

 

dd bs=28 skip=1 if=c:/tmp/wzrhpg300nh-pro-v24sp2-14998? of=c:/tmp/firmware

?This command assumes you have placed the 14998 firmware file in a folder on your C drive called "tmp".  It will strip the header and create a new file called firmware.  Extract dd.exe to the root of C.  Open a command prompt.  Go to the root of C.  Paste in the command.  You'll then navigate to the upgrade firmware page of OpenWRT and use the new "firmware" file to revert to DD-WRT.  I've only done this once so my instructions might not be 100% correct, but if I remember correctly, it's really easy compared to trying the TFTP method which I never got to work.

 

This has been the only successful and easiest way I've had to go from OpenWRT to DD-WRT.