Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2025 12:22 Post subject: Is there a post for just "stable" builds?
As someone who loves this community and its innovative and collaborative nature; is there a sticky or post somewhere for the layman who loves DDWRT but just wants a stable build that doesn't require a lot of maintenance reboots etc?
I want to try the new feature and innovations on some builds and routers, but other ones I just need them to work, the right way, all day. Do we or should we have that post?
Joined: 07 Jan 2025 Posts: 162 Location: Bethel Park, PA, USA
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2025 13:41 Post subject:
"Stable" is hard to define since some builds work perfectly on some routers, but are seriously broken on other routers. It also depends on which features you're using. I may say that a certain build is great on the MR7350, but someone using WDS or SAMBA (or some other feature I don't use) may have a different opinion. Even the same model and the same features may have different results with different configurations.
I don't want to say it's not meant for laymen, because we were all novices once, but you need to do your research before attempting to flash DD-WRT on a router the first time. The build thread disclaimers and I think at least one of the stickies says as much. _________________ Formerly dpp3530 Linksys MR7350
Gateway, 2 wired APs, NSS-ECM , Clock 1440MHz
VAPs on wlan0 and wlan1 for guest/IOT devices
IPv4 & IPv6 (Prefix Delegation)
Static Leases & DHCP
SmartDNS (DOT using NextDNS, Cloudflare), DNSMasq
Wireguard and OpenVPN server
2.4GHz: dd-wrt, AX Only, ACK Timing 1350, WPA3 SAE & WPA2 w/AES
5GHz: dd-wrt, AX/AC/N Mixed, ACK Timing 1350, WPA3 SAE & WPA2 w/AES
Verizon Fios, 500/500Mbps
As dplotz already pointed out: Stable is kind of relative, depending on your needs.
I find the most recent April releases to work flawless on my X86/64 System and my MR7350 Atheros driven Router.
But your mileage may vary.
Keep a "recent" backup of your settings and maybe give those threads a week or two. If no one reports "alarm my device is borked after flash" / or essential features for you are broken: it is save to give it a try yourself.
Broadly speaking:
I joined DD-WRT with an old linksys wrt54 ~15years ago when "stable" releases were a thing. And trust me, those releases had flaws.
Nowadays... I tend to just flash, since usually nothing gets broken, the devices just work.
Yeah I have old r7800 and archer that I want to just work. Over the past months it seems they aren't borked or broken, but require power cycle restarts every few days to get internet working again.
Yeah I have old r7800 and archer that I want to just work. Over the past months it seems they aren't borked or broken, but require power cycle restarts every few days to get internet working again.
If you don't mind running an older build without the 6.1 kernel, r53562 would run on my R7800 for months without crashing. _________________ - Linksys EA8500: I-Gateway, WAP/VAP 5ghz only. Features: VLANs, Samba, WG, Entware - r60xxx
- Linksys EA8500: 802.11s Secondary w/VLAN Trunk over 5ghz - r60xxx
- Linksys MX4300: 802.11s Primary w/VLAN Trunk over 5ghz. 2.4ghz WAP/VAP only - r60xxx
- Linksys MX4300: (WAP/VAP (7)) Multiple VLANs over single trunk port. Entware/Samba r60xxx
- Linksys MR7350: WDS Station for extended Ethernet r60xxx
- Linksys MR7500, MX8500: None in production. Just testing. r60xxx
- OSes: Fedora 40, 10 RPis (2,3,4,5), 23 ESP8266s: Straight from Amiga to Linux in '95, never having owned a Windows PC.
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Joined: 07 Jan 2025 Posts: 162 Location: Bethel Park, PA, USA
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2025 17:21 Post subject:
Silenttrouble wrote:
Yeah I have old r7800 and archer that I want to just work. Over the past months it seems they aren't borked or broken, but require power cycle restarts every few days to get internet working again.
I can tell you that with my configuration, my R7800s were extremely stable on 59171. It was my "rollback" build until I replaced them with the MR7350s. If you want a "just works" K6 build, that would be my recommendation. _________________ Formerly dpp3530 Linksys MR7350
Gateway, 2 wired APs, NSS-ECM , Clock 1440MHz
VAPs on wlan0 and wlan1 for guest/IOT devices
IPv4 & IPv6 (Prefix Delegation)
Static Leases & DHCP
SmartDNS (DOT using NextDNS, Cloudflare), DNSMasq
Wireguard and OpenVPN server
2.4GHz: dd-wrt, AX Only, ACK Timing 1350, WPA3 SAE & WPA2 w/AES
5GHz: dd-wrt, AX/AC/N Mixed, ACK Timing 1350, WPA3 SAE & WPA2 w/AES
Verizon Fios, 500/500Mbps
Joined: 03 Nov 2015 Posts: 375 Location: Florida, USA
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2025 22:15 Post subject:
Agreed there have been a lot of gremlins in the recent builds. I got old stuff too, r7800s and ea8500s. Every time I run into trouble I fall back to r59171. It will run for weeks with out any issues. _________________ ......All GOOD here... Just Handshakes and Time Stamps !......
