Joined: 07 Jun 2007 Posts: 244 Location: La Paz, Bolivia
Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2021 0:27 Post subject: New router to buy netgear, tplink
I am deciding to buy a new router to serve as the main router with DDWRT and I want to enable a system such as QoS to control the bandwidth and I am looking for a router that is robust and dont have issues with the DDWRT firmware so that this without problems
By the way, in the country that I live, you can mostly find tp-link... the netgears belong to someone who brought them on a trip to another country, but it is not common here at all.
Joined: 07 Jun 2007 Posts: 244 Location: La Paz, Bolivia
Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2021 13:21 Post subject:
Ok discard the both r6700 v1 and v3 and r7900p since the r9000 is the flagship, I have also read about the r7000 in some pages and youtubes and I would like to better understand the problem that seems to have with the broadcom so you say no would you waste time on it (unless you already have it) ... is there something wrong with broadcom that I still don't know?
kernel-panic69 wrote:
Everything in that list is Broadcom, except the R9000, and not worth your time unless you already have them in your possession.
And another question that I keep thinking about is ... will the ddwrt be stable with these routers? I ask because before I had a linksys wr160n and a tplink wr940 (yeeah... I know that they are not the best benchmarks and references but they are the experiences I have) and it happened that it continually freeze it or like they stopped working and had to be restarted and it was frustrating, so much so that I changed them to openwrt and there they are more stable (but I don't like openwrt very much)
Will these routers work fine with ddwrt or will they have the problem of always restarting or stopping?
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2021 15:33 Post subject:
Quite honestly, routers are like anything else. Not every one of them is perfect, you may get a lemon... and without any significant reports and debug information, issues cannot be fixed in DD-WRT.
The problem with Broadcom is that the closed-source drivers and the generic open-source drivers in newer kernels don't see much development or updates as do the Atheros and MediaTek open-source drivers or they don't seem to work as well as the drivers that have been built for the old 2.4 and 2.6 kernels in stock firmware. Plus, the Atheros (and now MediaTek) devices are getting much more attention by the DD-WRT firmware developer than Broadcom, so it's up to you which router you decide on, as long as it is supported by DD-WRT. If you research and read up on the recommended routers in the sticky, you will see that the flagships work just fine. You can use those Broadcoms (aside from the R7900P that is not supported) if you wish to, but also with the addition of swconfig in newer releases, some things have changed in the way that you have to go about doing things, so there is also that. Also, to reiterate, this topic has been beaten like a dead horse enough times in the past 3 years and people just do not seem to read and have to ask it over and over... _________________ "Life is but a fleeting moment, a vapor that vanishes quickly; All is vanity"
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Joined: 07 Jun 2007 Posts: 244 Location: La Paz, Bolivia
Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2021 16:33 Post subject: Thanks
Ok... I went for the most "safe" and chose the flagship, I just grabbed the netgear R9000.
Now I will install the ddwrt and shouldn't have much trouble...
If you had any suggestions for the ddwrt version and configuration it would be a great help.
what I basically want is to put a dhcp, a good QoS for my connection which is 20mbps up and 8mbps down and 3 ap repeaters or wired lan bridges and a debían OMV server with 3 terabytes of information
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2021 17:19 Post subject:
Slight overkill, but future-proof if you ever upgrade your internet connection. What is your wan connection: a static IP, dhcp, or pppoe? I am not sure if PPPoE is having any issues currently, I would have to look, but some information would be required first. I generally recommend builds from the current year and then recommend working backwards to find a build that doesn't have specific issues so that way I can interface with the developer to gather information to fix the issue(s). Anyhow, the scope of this thread is taking a change in direction, but we can leave discussion here in one place and work from there. _________________ "Life is but a fleeting moment, a vapor that vanishes quickly; All is vanity"
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Joined: 07 Jun 2007 Posts: 244 Location: La Paz, Bolivia
Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2021 18:38 Post subject:
kernel-panic69 wrote:
What is your wan connection: a static IP, dhcp, or pppoe?
dhcp
actually its like this
internet wired to archer c7 v2 stock firmware with DHCP as mainrouter,
wired 1 to an Archer C60 v3 with openwrt dumb-ap, it gets the ip´s of the mainrouter archer c7 (Someone told me the archer c60 gave problems with ddwrt firmware)
wired 2 debian/OMV
wired 3 wr160n openwrt dumb-ap (Before with ddwrt but it freeze it or it stopped working and it changed to openwrt but the USB is not useful to connect a printer)
What I will now do is change the mainrouter archer c7 for the netgear R9000 with ddwrt with DHCP and QoS (and A VPN coming soon).
and change the wr160n for the archer c7 (I still don't know which firmware will work better to connect a cannon e400 printer and that it works in a wireless network)
Joined: 07 Jun 2007 Posts: 244 Location: La Paz, Bolivia
Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2021 18:43 Post subject:
For now 1st I must install the ddwrt in the new R9000...
So I will look for some youtube videos that show how and/or some wikis here in the forum ... if they had one at hand it would be of great help to install the new one firmware
some people prefer to update with this file after the factory update..
You only need to flash r9000-webupgrade.bin to upgrade to a newer, older, or current release from a previous verison, from that release's download folder. You don't need to double-flash this device, you risk things going awry and that logic is completely wrong for this device in general. This right here is going to do nothing but confuse those who read it.
The only thing missing in the wiki right now is the upgrading procedure as best I can tell, which can be resolved pretty easily:
Joined: 07 Jun 2007 Posts: 244 Location: La Paz, Bolivia
Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2021 21:39 Post subject:
thnaks
Alozaros and kernel-panic69 I just installed the .img (I've done it before on several of my routers but it always gives me a little something the 1st time and I can't help but get a little nervous hehe)
now it finish to install the .bin i hope to enter without problems and i will start to configure the router
Joined: 08 May 2018 Posts: 14221 Location: Texas, USA
Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2021 22:49 Post subject:
Unless you flashed an older .img, what is the point of flashing the .bin? Nothing. All you needed to do was the initial factory-to-ddwrt.img flash, unless you flashed an old build from the router database. I wish I knew on what wavelength, space-time continuum, dimension you two are on, because double-flashing isn't necessary if you flashed the first .img linked.
Joined: 07 Jun 2007 Posts: 244 Location: La Paz, Bolivia
Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 1:48 Post subject:
kernel-panic69 wrote:
Unless you flashed an older .img, what is the point of flashing the .bin? Nothing. All you needed to do was the initial factory-to-ddwrt.img flash, unless you flashed an old build from the router database. I wish I knew on what wavelength, space-time continuum, dimension you two are on, because double-flashing isn't necessary if you flashed the first .img linked.
People need to quit giving bunk advice about how to flash routers, and people need to quit following said bunk advice.
aaa sorry didnt knew... in all te wikis and youtubes was that 2nd flashing step...
now i am with the basic configuration... wan, dhcp, Assigning the static ips of the other ap's, wireless securities etc...
