Joined: 29 Oct 2006 Posts: 25 Location: Chicago USA & Berlin Germany
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2016 17:16 Post subject: Convert Netgear R6700 to R7000 WORKS!
I went ahead and converted my R6700 to an R7000. The reason I did it is because OpenVPN is broken with PIA on all Kong firmwares that I tested on the R6700. The R7000 is better supported and people on the forum have reported that OpenVPN is broken on the 2016-12-02 build, but earlier firmware versions work well. I have had zero problems and am running Kong DD-WRT v3.0-r30870M kongac (11/10/16) for the R7000.
To do the conversion the first thing you need is the board ID's so here they are:
1) I first dumped DD-WRT and loaded the original (initial release) Netgear firmware for the R6700. The firmware is available on Netgear's site.
2) I then followed the instructions to unlock telnet on the R6700. The R6700 requires the probe packets on UDP port 23 so I used the New TelnetEnable on Windows.
Where LanMacAdd is the LAN MAC address for your router. Don't screw up and use the WAN MAC address like I did and waste two hours. Also, the MAC address must be entered without any of the colons (no :'s ) and all uppercase letters. Here is an example:
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2016 20:21 Post subject: Re: Convert Netgear R6700 to R7000 WORKS!
nonsence wrote:
I went ahead and converted my R6700 to an R7000. The reason I did it is because OpenVPN is broken with PIA on all Kong firmwares that I tested on the R6700. The R7000 is better supported and people on the forum have reported that OpenVPN is broken on the 2016-12-02 build, but earlier firmware versions work well. I have had zero problems and am running Kong DD-WRT v3.0-r30870M kongac (11/10/16) for the R7000.
Openvpn is working fine in all of my builds, only custom configs are broken, since custom configs need to be updated for the new openvpn.
The R6700 build (and hw) is 100% identical to the R7000, only the boardid and ident string are different.
Joined: 29 Oct 2006 Posts: 25 Location: Chicago USA & Berlin Germany
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2016 23:59 Post subject: Re: Convert Netgear R6700 to R7000 WORKS!
<Kong> wrote:
nonsence wrote:
I went ahead and converted my R6700 to an R7000. The reason I did it is because OpenVPN is broken with PIA on all Kong firmwares that I tested on the R6700. The R7000 is better supported and people on the forum have reported that OpenVPN is broken on the 2016-12-02 build, but earlier firmware versions work well. I have had zero problems and am running Kong DD-WRT v3.0-r30870M kongac (11/10/16) for the R7000.
Openvpn is working fine in all of my builds, only custom configs are broken, since custom configs need to be updated for the new openvpn.
The R6700 build (and hw) is 100% identical to the R7000, only the boardid and ident string are different.
Thus whatever you did is completely unnecessary.
Well I have your R7000 version DD-WRT v3.0-r30870M kongac (11/10/16), and for the first time PIA has not lost connection. I could not maintain connection with any of the R6700 builds. I'll let time go by and see if the connection to PIA stays solid.
Joined: 29 Oct 2006 Posts: 25 Location: Chicago USA & Berlin Germany
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 16:11 Post subject: Re: Convert Netgear R6700 to R7000 WORKS!
<Kong> wrote:
nonsence wrote:
I went ahead and converted my R6700 to an R7000. The reason I did it is because OpenVPN is broken with PIA on all Kong firmwares that I tested on the R6700. The R7000 is better supported and people on the forum have reported that OpenVPN is broken on the 2016-12-02 build, but earlier firmware versions work well. I have had zero problems and am running Kong DD-WRT v3.0-r30870M kongac (11/10/16) for the R7000.
Openvpn is working fine in all of my builds, only custom configs are broken, since custom configs need to be updated for the new openvpn.
The R6700 build (and hw) is 100% identical to the R7000, only the boardid and ident string are different.
Thus whatever you did is completely unnecessary.
Seems you are quite right. I came home last night to my WAN down because PIA had stopped working. I'm really not sure why OpenVPN is giving me so much trouble.
This morning it dropped the connection three times according to the log, but reconnected its self.
So I went through network hell today trying to get my TiVo service to connect and it turns out that Xfinity is now blocking the ports that TiVo needs...
Anyway, during my diagnostics I flashed back to the Netgear firmware. I was able to use the newest R7000 firmware and the 600 Mbps option was available and I was able to turn it on. The router is an R7000 as far as Netgear is concerned. So if you want to run the R7000 firmware, just change the board ID to the R7000.
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 1:59 Post subject: Re: Convert Netgear R6700 to R7000 WORKS!
nonsence wrote:
I went ahead and converted my R6700 to an R7000. The reason I did it is because OpenVPN is broken with PIA on all Kong firmwares that I tested on the R6700. The R7000 is better supported and people on the forum have reported that OpenVPN is broken on the 2016-12-02 build, but earlier firmware versions work well. I have had zero problems and am running Kong DD-WRT v3.0-r30870M kongac (11/10/16) for the R7000.
To do the conversion the first thing you need is the board ID's so here they are:
1) I first dumped DD-WRT and loaded the original (initial release) Netgear firmware for the R6700. The firmware is available on Netgear's site.
2) I then followed the instructions to unlock telnet on the R6700. The R6700 requires the probe packets on UDP port 23 so I used the New TelnetEnable on Windows.
Where LanMacAdd is the LAN MAC address for your router. Don't screw up and use the WAN MAC address like I did and waste two hours. Also, the MAC address must be entered without any of the colons (no :'s ) and all uppercase letters. Here is an example:
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2017 9:19 Post subject: Enable Telnet on Windows 10
If you want to do this on the r6700, you have to use the telnetenable.py script (running python 2.7--3.x doesn't work due to problems with the libraries from my trials)
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2018 20:09 Post subject: Re: Convert Netgear R6700 to R7000 WORKS!
nonsence wrote:
I went ahead and converted my R6700 to an R7000. The reason I did it is because OpenVPN is broken with PIA on all Kong firmwares that I tested on the R6700. The R7000 is better supported and people on the forum have reported that OpenVPN is broken on the 2016-12-02 build, but earlier firmware versions work well. I have had zero problems and am running Kong DD-WRT v3.0-r30870M kongac (11/10/16) for the R7000.
To do the conversion the first thing you need is the board ID's so here they are:
1) I first dumped DD-WRT and loaded the original (initial release) Netgear firmware for the R6700. The firmware is available on Netgear's site.
2) I then followed the instructions to unlock telnet on the R6700. The R6700 requires the probe packets on UDP port 23 so I used the New TelnetEnable on Windows.
Where LanMacAdd is the LAN MAC address for your router. Don't screw up and use the WAN MAC address like I did and waste two hours. Also, the MAC address must be entered without any of the colons (no :'s ) and all uppercase letters. Here is an example:
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2018 20:31 Post subject: Re: Convert Netgear R6700 to R7000 WORKS!
TODSP wrote:
nonsence wrote:
I went ahead and converted my R6700 to an R7000. The reason I did it is because OpenVPN is broken with PIA on all Kong firmwares that I tested on the R6700. The R7000 is better supported and people on the forum have reported that OpenVPN is broken on the 2016-12-02 build, but earlier firmware versions work well. I have had zero problems and am running Kong DD-WRT v3.0-r30870M kongac (11/10/16) for the R7000.
To do the conversion the first thing you need is the board ID's so here they are:
1) I first dumped DD-WRT and loaded the original (initial release) Netgear firmware for the R6700. The firmware is available on Netgear's site.
2) I then followed the instructions to unlock telnet on the R6700. The R6700 requires the probe packets on UDP port 23 so I used the New TelnetEnable on Windows.
Where LanMacAdd is the LAN MAC address for your router. Don't screw up and use the WAN MAC address like I did and waste two hours. Also, the MAC address must be entered without any of the colons (no :'s ) and all uppercase letters. Here is an example:
