: slybunda December 05, 2011, 05:55:50 PM
well so far this is going very well:
even tx power output is working properly now. if only there was a way for these european routers to bypass eirp limits and use fcc limits insted. would get more output power then since europe is limited to 20dbm by law.
: ultrawires December 06, 2011, 03:11:22 AM
slybunda,
Can you check if DDNS updates work?
Thanks.
: ultrawires December 06, 2011, 04:13:51 AM
Solved - found on dd-wrt forum that ddns updates had been working since 17461 and direct reference that it works in 17798.
Woohoo!
: slybunda December 06, 2011, 04:53:23 AM
yes ddns is working in this new build. im still very surprised at how fast the gui is responding. very big difference to before.
: Speedy1205 December 07, 2011, 02:43:45 PM
yeah well TX Power working. But I`m not able do get working a guest network. I can connect, I get an IP but no internet :-) anyway DNS is working :-( Any Ideas ?
: ultrawires December 07, 2011, 04:10:24 PM
USB Service
Since deploying this router at home in May, first time I've activated USB service and have a small USB memory stick on. The Buffalo DD-WRT page shows it's not mounted but it is and I've created folders and have pixelserv running off the supposedly "unmounted" drive.
--- /dev/sda
Block device, size 125 MiB (131072000 bytes)
DOS/MBR partition map
Partition 1: 124 MiB (130023424 bytes, 253952 sectors from 2048)
Type 0x83 (Linux)
Ext2 file system
UUID 042335DB-41F5-4F02-9C77-452B2DAC56D4 (DCE, v4)
Volume size 124 MiB (130023424 bytes, 126976 blocks of 1 KiB)
Status: Not mounted
: mkkyah December 08, 2011, 05:36:43 AM
Open Vpn client did not work with 17798. I had to downgrade to 14998 back. Anyone with success?
: peabody December 08, 2011, 04:21:04 PM
I was able to connect with OpenVPN, but the server wasn't setting up routes for my clients any more, so while the OpenVPN connection was successful, checking whatismyip.com still didn't show my home ISP IP and I have been unable to ping anything on my home lan (including the router).
I'm using a TAP (bridged) setup with OpenVPN. I found this post on the OpenVPN forums and I'm going to give it a shot when I get home:
: xur17 December 08, 2011, 09:45:45 PM
My Nexus S android phone seems to be having issues with this new firmware version. Whenever the screen is off, it completely loses its connection to the network (so I get no message notification, no sip calls, etc). It only regains the connection when I turn the screen back on.
Can anyone else with an android phone try this and confirm it for me? I am guessing it has to do with power saving mode.
This is a major issue for me, so I am hoping there is a workaround or something. The transmit power seems to be better in this version, so I don't want to have to downgrade.
Edit: And now internet completely cut out for all computers when I started downloading a large file. I think I am going to downgrade...
: peabody December 08, 2011, 11:55:46 PM
xur17 wrote:My Nexus S android phone seems to be having issues with this new firmware version. Whenever the screen is off, it completely loses its connection to the network (so I get no message notification, no sip calls, etc). It only regains the connection when I turn the screen back on.
Can anyone else with an android phone try this and confirm it for me? I am guessing it has to do with power saving mode.
It sounds to me like you accidentally set your wifi sleep policy to "When screen turns off" to me. You can adjust this setting from Settings > Wireless and Networks > WiFi Settings > Menu key > Advanced > Wifi Sleep policy on your phone.
I have an OG Droid and it works fine with this update.
: xur17 December 09, 2011, 01:02:53 AM
peabody wrote:
xur17 wrote:My Nexus S android phone seems to be having issues with this new firmware version. Whenever the screen is off, it completely loses its connection to the network (so I get no message notification, no sip calls, etc). It only regains the connection when I turn the screen back on.
Can anyone else with an android phone try this and confirm it for me? I am guessing it has to do with power saving mode.It sounds to me like you accidentally set your wifi sleep policy to "When screen turns off" to me. You can adjust this setting from Settings > Wireless and Networks > WiFi Settings > Menu key > Advanced > Wifi Sleep policy on your phone.
I have an OG Droid and it works fine with this update.
Nope, I never touched that setting (and I just double checked it right now). My phone doesn't actually disconnect from the router, it just stops receiving any network traffic (pings don't work, and push messages don't work). The phone still shows up as connected in ddwrt. As soon as I turn the screen on, it gets all of the missed messages, etc from when the screen was off.
Edit: I just realized I didn't do a hard reset after upgrading the router (I did right before though). Is this necessary / would it help?
: slybunda December 09, 2011, 08:42:34 AM
sounds more like a problem with your phone than with the router. if your phone comes out of standby and continues to work fine on the wifi, then its a phone problem not a router problem.
: drstevedavies December 09, 2011, 12:55:50 PM
I wonder if anyone has come across this problem.
I updated to this firmware from the basic firmware (I had given up on trying to get consistent n-wireless speeds accross the lan on the DD-WRT firmware, despite this being one of the reason I chose the router ).
Every other device at home can connect to the router wirelessly (2 iPhone 4's and my work Sony Vaio laptop) but my main laptop (Packard Bell Easynote TJ67, Atheros AR5B93 Wireless Network Adaptor) refuses to connect through windows 7. I have tried all variety of fixes from dropping to 20Mhz, different security settings, rolling back the adaptor drivers but still no joy.
Re-installed V 1.79 of the basic firmware and all is well again.
Any suggestions would be gratefully recieved, as I can not find any similar complaints, so I fear it may be a problem with my setup.
: peabody December 09, 2011, 01:15:49 PM
Did you delete your wifi settings and then try connecting? My Win7 laptop wouldn't connect until I did that. (Networking and Sharing Center > Manage Wireless Networks).
: slybunda December 09, 2011, 01:47:36 PM
i had a laptop that did that, had to put in the wifi details manually. then power cycle the laptop, as in do a shutdown and then power on the laptop again and then it connected ot the router. was laptop problem.
: slybunda December 09, 2011, 03:50:34 PM
have to say that this new firmware is excellent compared to the old one. many numberous bug fixes, performance and most of all stability enhancements. it took them long enough but was worth it. how are others experience with this new firmware?
: drstevedavies December 09, 2011, 06:14:32 PM
I do wonder why this is the case. As my network card is able to get n-wireless speeds with the basic firmware I wonder whether there is an issue with the alpha. It was never an issue with these settings in the pro firmware on the cd shipped with the router.
I'll keep the alpha installed for a while to see if anyone has another suggestion ... But I fear it'll be back to the basic again.
Cheers for the advice
: benskywalker December 10, 2011, 08:47:40 AM
Hi,
Need advice. Really keen to try out the new build 17798 but how do i revert back to previous firmware if i dont like it? To revert back to previous firmware for both DD-WRT & Buffalo Friendly firmware the same method?
Thanks in advance.
: slybunda December 10, 2011, 11:14:46 AM
can revert back to user friendly firmware by just flashing it in the web upgrade of ddwrt.
: xur17 December 10, 2011, 12:35:48 PM
slybunda wrote:sounds more like a problem with your phone than with the router. if your phone comes out of standby and continues to work fine on the wifi, then its a phone problem not a router problem.
Possibly, but the fact of the matter is that I don't have this problem with any other wireless network, and only with this firmware version. They definitely increased the power on this new version, but the fact of the matter is that it doesn't work with my phone.
I seriously considering selling this darn router, and buying a cisco e3000. I've had nothing but issues when using the router with ddwrt (the stock firmware does appear to be decent, I'll give them that).
: slybunda December 10, 2011, 07:18:07 PM
if this firmware is anything to go by id say that things will get better in the future. i dont use the wifi side of this router any more due to the issues with it in the past. i use the ubiquiti power ap n for wifi now.
: woad December 10, 2011, 10:36:20 PM
I have been completely unable to connect via wifi with my Moto Droid since I upgraded. I also had issues conencting to my Comcast modem and putzed around for 2 hours before calling support. Just as i get on the phone with support...it conencts. Go figure...
: derf December 11, 2011, 11:18:42 AM
Seems that Scanlist does not work (I've tried 1,6,11 as a setting). Even placing a single entry seems to fail. Default is all that works.
Can anyone provide some advice on what the TX/RX Antenna Chains should be set at for optimal range/throughput
I'm also seeing the following under status
: Aveyer December 11, 2011, 12:33:56 PM
Setting both RX and TX to 1+2+3 seems to work best.
: slybunda December 11, 2011, 04:09:38 PM
i dotn use the wifi side of the router but im using it as a smart switch and dhcp server, working great so far. i have a different access point i use for wifi connected to the buffalo. however i may do some testing on the buffalo's wireless later this week if i get round to it.
: seikialice88 December 12, 2011, 12:43:39 AM
peabody wrote:I was able to connect with OpenVPN, but the server wasn't setting up routes for my clients any more, so while the OpenVPN connection was successful, checking whatismyip.com still didn't show my home ISP IP and I have been unable to ping anything on my home lan (including the router).
I'm using a TAP (bridged) setup with OpenVPN. I found this post on the OpenVPN forums and I'm going to give it a shot when I get home:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=615438#615438
Such a very amazing link!
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: hotfortech December 12, 2011, 03:23:27 PM
The two problems I’ve noticed so far are:
- The "ls" command behavior has changed. Executing "ls -lash" formats the results differently and it has lost its color coding.
- Free JFFS space is displayed incorrectly. Under administration -> management, JFFS doesn't show the free amount and on the Status page the amount of used space is displayed.
That's it so far, will update if anything else pops up.
: AZCOP December 13, 2011, 06:59:43 PM
Speedy1205 wrote:yeah well TX Power working. But I`m not able do get working a guest network. I can connect, I get an IP but no internet :-) anyway DNS is working :-( Any Ideas ?
Same problem here with my guest network
Network connection, but no Internet
Jay
: slybunda December 15, 2011, 06:07:53 AM
done some wifi testing, altered the tx power setting to 15dbm, the stats page still shows 21dbm eirp avg. altering the tx power setting makes no difference to output power tested with 2 laptops and inssider. some deffo dodgey activity is going on here.
: drstevedavies December 15, 2011, 11:58:28 AM
drstevedavies wrote:
Unfortunately those solutions didn't help me. I have now isolated the problem. When I select n- only it won't connect, it will with NG-mixed. Using WPA2 with AES will give a transfer rate over my network of 80Mbps, compared with 150Mbps using the basic firmware. Both have 300Mbps connection speeds.
I do wonder why this is the case. As my network card is able to get n-wireless speeds with the basic firmware I wonder whether there is an issue with the alpha. It was never an issue with these settings in the pro firmware on the cd shipped with the router.
I'll keep the alpha installed for a while to see if anyone has another suggestion ... But I fear it'll be back to the basic again.
Cheers for the advice
Following on from this problem I have found someone else with the same issue:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=653403 although on a different buffalo router.
So it seems that this is a legitimate bug.
The problem with the workaround he suggests is that I am having to select n/g mixed, and this seems to ruin the whole point of n-wireless (as stated above it significantly reduces the actual transfer rate)
I don't know why I have wasted literally hours of my life trying to get the "professional" firmware to work when the stock firmware just works. Straight away. No fiddling. If only it looked nicer.
: usspeedup2 February 06, 2012, 06:51:59 PM
i have a similar problem but on my situation it is like this
the 1st time i connected to the router by ethernet cable RJ-45 (fine, no problems)
then i unpluged the cable and connected to the router Wirelesly (fine + giving me a better and range)
then i turned off the wireless on my Sony Vaio laptop and restart the pc
I want to use wired connection so
laptop windows loaded..
connected the RJ-45 cable...
no internet
in the network and sharing center shows that I have 2 active networks (the name of my wireless network and unindentified network)
it seems like a conflict in the router somewhere
any ideas how to fix that ? try yourself maybe you will get the same problem
tested on 2 laptops Dell Latitude and Sony vaio
check the pictures of my router configuration
http://nobia.ca/rout/wireless/Untitled-2.jpg
http://nobia.ca/rout/wireless/Untitled-3.jpg
http://nobia.ca/rout/wireless/Untitled-4.jpg
http://nobia.ca/rout/wireless/Untitled-5.jpg
: usspeedup2 February 07, 2012, 09:43:49 PM
any ideas/solutions? do you guys have any same problems?
seems like nobody kows what im talking about lol
: ksa February 12, 2012, 01:23:37 PM
I have problems with Android phones. The problems seems to appear in both 17798 and 14998.
After some time of phone inactivity wifi hangs. I.e. phone sleeps, and connection to all other devices hang. Two laptops and ipad2 can not ping each other, or ping router, or access internet anymore. If I press power on Galaxy Nexus?? wifi instantly starts to work on all of mentioned devices. The problem seems not affect Nexus One. It also doesn't apeear if wifi is off on Galaxy Nexus.
Please let me know if you need additional details.
: brettschulte February 16, 2012, 02:06:29 PM
I have looked and looked and I can't find any newer DD-WRT releases for the WZR-HP-G300NH on the Buffalo site or the DD-WRT site. Can you give me a link?
: slybunda February 16, 2012, 02:25:40 PM
guess you not looked hard enough, there is a newer build available.
: crammed February 16, 2012, 06:01:19 PM
Where is there a newer build available? Are you talking about a DD-WRT build, or a Buffalo build?
: slybunda February 18, 2012, 06:04:37 PM
both
: crammed February 18, 2012, 09:35:10 PM
OK, so where are they? The page for the WZR-HP-G300NH has 17798. I am actually looking for something newer than 17798 that will work with my my WZR-HP-G450H.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
: kad77 March 13, 2012, 11:00:38 PM
EKO's builds are updated regularly, and have worked well for me. This is rev. 18024
: buddee March 14, 2012, 05:50:19 AM
That's not an eko build, eko only builds for broadcom based units. That's Brainslayer's build, and 18024 is already old now.
: kiesa April 08, 2012, 05:38:37 AM
When will release new stable version for this router?I try yesterday this build.But work very bad with client mode.Ping have many request time out and sometimes very big.Only with 14998 build working stable in client mode.
: slybunda April 09, 2012, 08:31:47 PM
new build should be out very soon.