Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 4:33 Post subject: Need Help if DD-WRT is Right Choice, Please
New here if posting wrong place please advise. I have recently purchased Linksys WRT1900ac v2. It has been fine so far I have used DD-WRT on older Linksys routers years back.
1. Will the current updates which I believer is ddwrt-linksys-wrt1900acv2-webflash give me a better performance over the OEM which last updated firmware 2015?
2.I hate the OEM wifi for guest that you have to go site and enter a password (does not redirect all time). I like creating a guest SSID with a separate password. Will that be possible with the DD-WRT flash?
Like most mostly all wifi with Arlo Netgear wireless cameras also wifi connection and strength are big. Guest wifi also but want a different SSID I can give people without redirecting to a webpage.
Firstly, most of us here are using the later builds by the developer "Kong", as they are tweaked specifically for the WRT1900ac and are available here:
You ask if it will give you better performance, I would answer by saying it will give more stable performance. You say the OEM firmware has been OK for you, but many of us have come to DD-WRT for stability, so maybe this is not the case for you?
Regarding the Guest access, yes, DD-WRT is much easier, you just set up a virtual interface and assign it an SSID for your guests. More info here.
You can flash with DD-WRT and later return to your OEM image if you want, because the WRT1900AC range have two partitions (as long as you don't flash a 2nd time from the DD-WRT partition). This is done by rebooting 3 times in a row.
Have a read of the Wiki and this forum and I'm sure you'll get a handle on things pretty quick. I've only been back to DD-WRT for a month or two after years away and I'm more than happy with it on my WRT1900AC v1.
As a beginner like yourself, I have had good experiences with Kong's builds for the WRT1900 series since first trying it in February. There have been gradual improvements during the past months and I have found that stability has been good throughout. The latest iteration, 29900 dated 12 June, seems to me to be particularly polished.
My advice - give it a go!
Regards, lim _________________ WRT1900ACS v1
WRT3200ACM
Regulatory Domain: UK
To all thank you @Siliconaudio @lim @Yemble this is good news...
Stability is what I am looking for and my words were not correct the OEM is fine but there are times I have to unplug it and plug it back to get it back operating at level it should. So this is what I want...
I will download the Kong and find the instructions on how to apply it...thx again for steering me right direction all!
I installed dd-wrt on my WRT1900ACS a few days ago. Initially, I was not happy, performance was just awful. I then installed a Kong build, hoping to improve performance. That didn't do it. Eventually, I fiddled with wifi settings and performance is seemingly back to OEM levels. Don't expect it to be great out of the box.
I installed dd-wrt on my WRT1900ACS a few days ago. Initially, I was not happy, performance was just awful. I then installed a Kong build, hoping to improve performance. That didn't do it. Eventually, I fiddled with wifi settings and performance is seemingly back to OEM levels. Don't expect it to be great out of the box.
robert
I had similar issues until I manually set a channel for the 5 GHz radio (was set to auto out of the box) - that seemed to be the one thing that kicked it into life for me. It's been working brilliantly ever since.
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2016 7:34 Post subject:
robertcope wrote:
I installed dd-wrt on my WRT1900ACS a few days ago. Initially, I was not happy, performance was just awful. I then installed a Kong build, hoping to improve performance. That didn't do it. Eventually, I fiddled with wifi settings and performance is seemingly back to OEM levels. Don't expect it to be great out of the box.
robert
Yep, avoid using Auto for either channel and stick to the non-DFS channels (lower numbers) initially, until you have proved your WAN performance. Once you have a decent baseline performance, then you are free to experiment...
I updated from 6/12 to 6/24 Kong doing it in-place (load the native DD-WRT image from within the GUI and just select "don't reset settings").
Haven't had a single issue and my users didn't even notice that wireless was unavailable while the router rebooted. _________________ Routing:.......Asus RT-AX88U (Asuswrt-Merlin 384.14) Switching:....Netgear GS608_V3 & GS605_V4, TrendNet TEG-S82G & TEG-S50G
htismage: by loading the image file from within the GUI, are you effectively placing the image on the "other" partition and overwriting the Linksys firmware? Or would this simply overwrite the dd-wrt partition?
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 8:38 Post subject:
kagazi wrote:
htismage: by loading the image file from within the GUI, are you effectively placing the image on the "other" partition and overwriting the Linksys firmware? Or would this simply overwrite the dd-wrt partition?
