[xaueious]

This method of flashing the CFE is not recommended for 'everyone' until further testing. The instructions are good as-is. If anything we want to discourage those who are not qualified to follow them to try, but some do fall through the gaps.

[raito77]

Hi!
My EA6200 - edited xVortex CFE, running really good with EA6350 dd-wrt (right now i have build r29316)

Just little problem with wifi speed performance-

2,4 Ghz i get only 65mbps. Looks like Channel Width 20Mhz only working because if i set 40Mhz on status it show only 20Mhz

5Ghz on VHT 80+80 i get 324mbps

I have connected 9 devices no problem with stability only in my case wifi speed performance is not good

[vitche]

In last FIRMWARE CHANGELOG added support for EA6200. What this mean? And where difference with EA6350 installed via edited CFE ?

[raito77]

[vitche]

[xaueious]

[luiggybit]

Hi all!!!

Well I read all like 4 times

This is what I did:

1) Downloaded 04-04-2016 DD-WRT Beta firwamre for EA6350.

2) Flashed the beta firmware throuh GUI.

3) Router reboots OK onto DD*WRT

*Checked Wl0 & Wl1 and there are Correct for Ea6200, without CFE Edit.

*Checked ETh0,Eth1,Eth2 all are correct.

*The Router is detected as EA6200


So, I guess someone updated the beta and fix it for ea6200?

My NVRAM usage us 33/64kb, and the router works right.


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I've replaced the thermal pad with GC-Extreme (another thermal compund) and then overclocked the ea6200 to 1000Mhz, working at 61ºC.

Here some screenshots:






So, do you think I need to edit CFE?, Im missing something?

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Another Question, How Can I improve USB transfer speeds?
I'm getting 13mb/s (Wired Conecction) UP/Down, with the original stock firmware I was getting 20mb/s up and 32mb/s down.

[luiggybit]

Ok I Overclocked to 1200Mhz switched to EXT3 FS and now I'm Getting 21Mb/s R/W...

I'll try to get better speeds.

[lowlymortal]

With xvortex-cfe-ea6200-as-ea6350-with-ea6200-devinfo.bin, almost all the builds from 2016 were showing a kernel-space memory leak such that the ea6200 could not be used for more than a day.

So I decided to try the xvortex CFE posted by LOM for the ea6350, with his recommended changes for the ea6200 in the following thread:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=286183&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=135

I'm now on ddwrt-r29519, and the ea6200 is stable, with no memory increase. I'm uploading LOM's-xvortex-CFE-for-ea6350-modified-for-ea6200 for others to try out (usual disclaimer applies).

This binary is the same as LOM's xvortex CFE for the ea6350, but with the following differences:

[damianmb]

Consider me a total noob in this space. I installed many DD WRT before and im looking for a router that supports openvpn. There is a used EA6200 router for sale, idk if it's v1 or v2.. and it seems that only the v1 is supported?

After reading this thread I'm a little afraid to flash this router.. I don't really want to fiddle with CFE or whatever as I also have a mac and not windows.

So.. should I avoid this router? Any other considerations to take into account because in the DB it doesn't mention any issue with the build and only in a search this post came out.

Regards.

[xaueious]

I'm still on the CFE from the Chinese forum, just wanted to chip in that I have successfully updated to Kong's Firmware: DD-WRT v3.0-r29620M kongac (05/10/16)


If I run into any issues I might try the modded EA6350 CFE, but other than the swapped radios everything has been stable. I seem to be getting good WiFi speeds on it so no reason for me to change anything.

[lowlymortal]

Good Morning All,

Just wanted to say that my ea6200 is finally running stable on ddwrt-r28598 with the above CFE. Note that my usage is routing-only, and so I am not using the radios. However, I have another one planned which will likely have the 5GHz radio (only) enabled. We'll see.

BTW, I also tried inserting the "default CFE params" found in xvortex-cfe-lom-ea6350-for-ea6200.bin into Linksys' default CFE and flashed that onto the ea6200. The good news is that that made it brick-proof, i.e. if you had accidentally erased the nvram/devinfo partitions via manual, or 30-30-30 or web GUI, the router did not turn into a brick. HOWEVER, it did not bring in all the "0:" and "1:" parameters after such an event, and so no WiFi (with default Linksys firmware). That CFE really is the pits. Bad Linksys.

Also BTW, openwrt-20160520's openwrt-bcm53xx-linksys-ea6300-v1-squashfs.trx works on the ea6200 with the above CFE. The first boot had a lot ubi warnings, but it's up and running with 122M rootfs! Now have to find out what's usable ...

Cheers.

[black6spdz]

did the CFE edit and flash successfully I'm pretty sure.. trying a coule different firmware versions I'm now stuck at a boot looping CFE miniWeb Server page

[black6spdz]

ok, so I found that in order to make it not loop and get a full firmware uploaded it is necessary to start the router with the reset pushed for a few seconds and then it will not automatically reboot until a successful firmware upload. I'm running the latest R6350 now. I know this is a dd-wrt forum but has anyone tried alternate firmwares with the new CFE?

[black6spdz]

lowlymortal, even with your CFE my router eventually crashed from the memory leak with 6/6/16 and your r29529. So far so good on r28397 12/1/15. Holding at 68% free