[mhaqs]

I never had any issues going back to factory firmware. Just go to Backup/Upgrade option in DD-WRT and upload the stock firmware. Works.

[onihonker]

I'm having difficulty setting up wifi for both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands using the latest firmware for the WNDR4500.

I've tried auto and defaults for everything, turning on and off Frame Burst and Afterburner and also I tried changing the wireless channel to various modes.

Could someone post their settings for w0 and w1 and their respective advanced pages?

[CobraCommander]

Here's my setup... I've had the best luck just leaving most things on auto, but I believe I've tinkered with just about everything to improve the signal strength.

I have been running the latest WNDR4500v1 build (v24-sp2 12/05/12) from MyOpenRouter.com for about two days now and had no issues with installation or configuration, but like others I've been seeing that signal strength has gone down a bit...

I've played with other settings like channels and such, but I'm looking to really tune and streamline it and wondered if anyone has had any luck with the WNDR4500 with regards to performance.

Pics of my setup are attached, but I've found the best settings seem to be defaults. My 5Ghz band is isolated and acting as the master AP linked to a WNDR3700 for the home theater, gaming rig and console gaming network in the living room. Works like a charm and streams video faster than I've ever experienced.

In fact, everything wireless that I do now has had performance improvements with the exception of just signal strength... It's been absolutely brilliant.

My primary desire is to boost the strength of the 2.4Ghz band and the TX Power setting doesn't seem to help the matter even at 200Mw. For grins I cranked it to 250 and transferred part of a 40GB VM image to see if it would heat up... Nothing.

The TX Power setting for the 5Ghz will always default back to 1496 which made me think someone goofed and put the MTU in there. However, changing it makes no difference and it does revert back. It was said that this was what Netgear had in there, so the programmer left it like that.

The bottom line is that signal strength did noticeably go down with this build installed and others commented the same on that website. Anyone have any better luck here or is this just a known issue being worked on...

Thanks...

[tathagata]

I have prepared firmware for WNDR4500v1.

New features:

rflow
ntfs-3g
epi_ttcp
NAT loopback
inotify
OpenVPN (not tested)

Fixed issues:

Router rename
Duplicate MAC address of network interfaces of two same router
Mount multiple partitions with different filesystems
Increase size of jffs2 partition

I would like to test this firmware. So if anybody is interested then provide me your email address.

[duntuk]

@tathagata. FYI,
OpenVPN works with your latest (unreleased) beta firmware: dd-wrt.v24-K26_WNDR4500_07-02-2013.chk

[mhaqs]

Alright, I got a hold of the firmware from tathagata. Seems to solve all issues posted earlier. Optware is working with multiple partitions as well.

Great work, tathagata.

[v1ad]

Can anyone test if QOS works? It seem not to work here.

12-10-2012 version on WNDR4500v1.

[tathagata]

New version of WNDR4500v1 firmware is available at http://www.myopenrouter.com/download/43858/DD-WRT-for-WNDR4500v1/

[xXKingKongXx]

[tathagata]

tc command is not supported.

[xXKingKongXx]

[mhaqs]

[xXKingKongXx]

[tathagata]

[Ryzari]

I just installed the unofficial dd-wrt firmware from that link posted in thread, however I cannot figure out how to get the 2.4 band to go any faster than 54mbps.

I have tried setting to N-only mode, changing channel width to auto/20/40, but nothing will make it go faster than 54mbps, is this just a bug in the firmware or what? On the stock firmware I was able to get my laptop connected at 150mbps on the 2.4ghz band by setting it to 450(40mhz) setting.