However searching the router database, the wiki, this board... I cannot find any mention of an X8 that is AC5000, nor a R8300 model.
Then i went looking for release dates and that was not fruitful either.
So I am not clear if what I am seeing is an old model and it is not supported, or is this some fairly new X8 variant, and support is unknown at this time.
Finally, if I really borked this one, and I could have found this on the forum, let me know that too. Maybe there is a keyword or alternate model number or something I am not aware of.
However searching the router database, the wiki, this board... I cannot find any mention of an X8 that is AC5000, nor a R8300 model.
Then i went looking for release dates and that was not fruitful either.
So I am not clear if what I am seeing is an old model and it is not supported, or is this some fairly new X8 variant, and support is unknown at this time.
Finally, if I really borked this one, and I could have found this on the forum, let me know that too. Maybe there is a keyword or alternate model number or something I am not aware of.
looks to me like an R8500, happened before with other models, i could be wrong though.
Otherwise, this is the same as the "R8500 AC5300", and the firmware for that unit should work? Or has there been historical cases where one would assume its all the same, only to find out something else has changed in manufacturing and the firmware fails until someone can get a unit and tweak as needed?
Since the other numbers changed, but the X8 remained the same - what does the "X8" indicate?
Otherwise, this is the same as the "R8500 AC5300", and the firmware for that unit should work? Or has there been historical cases where one would assume its all the same, only to find out something else has changed in manufacturing and the firmware fails until someone can get a unit and tweak as needed?
Since the other numbers changed, but the X8 remained the same - what does the "X8" indicate?
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 23:41 Post subject: R8300 to R8500
For those who find this thread from Google, I was able to successfully install the kong build of dd-wrt on my r8300 by first flashing the r8500 firmware from Netgear's site and then flashing the dd-wrt firmware.
Not sure if it is absolutely necessary to flash to r8500 first as I did not try to flash to dd-wrt directly from r8300, however I did and it worked fine.
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2019 1:56 Post subject: Re: R8300 to R8500
I followed your procedure but DDWRT will not recognize the 2.4GHZ radio. Did you have this problem also?
spicyusername wrote:
For those who find this thread from Google, I was able to successfully install the kong build of dd-wrt on my r8300 by first flashing the r8500 firmware from Netgear's site and then flashing the dd-wrt firmware.
Not sure if it is absolutely necessary to flash to r8500 first as I did not try to flash to dd-wrt directly from r8300, however I did and it worked fine.
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 2:05 Post subject: Re: R8300 to R8500
spicyusername wrote:
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Not sure if it is absolutely necessary to flash to r8500 first as I did not try to flash to dd-wrt directly from r8300, however I did and it worked fine.
That intermediate step is not necessary, I flashed directly the dd-wrt r8500 image on the r8300 and it worked.
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 7:40 Post subject: Re: R8300 to R8500
wrtmyrouter wrote:
pschultz wrote:
I followed your procedure but DDWRT will not recognize the 2.4GHZ radio. Did you have this problem also?
In my case, dd-wrt sees the 3 radio bands, including 2.4GHz. Is it still not appearing for you?
the one problem I did find was that the eth devices list ranges from 0 to 3 when it should range 0 to 5 as it has 6 ports. DD-WRT UI shows only 4 ports as well and ifconfig in the device shows until eth3.
But, if I plug in the eth cable in any of the ports, it gets an IP address and connectivity, meaning the router is driving it.