Joined: 05 Jan 2008 Posts: 52 Location: Raleigh, NC, USA, Earth
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:06 Post subject:
Ok, I took mine apart. It certainly isn't easy. Linksys is serious about getting heat out of that plastic box. There are metal plates bonded to both upper and lower parts of the shell. There are four total -- 2 top, 2 bottom -- heat contact pads that connect the plates to the heat sinks welded to the chips. Those pads are very sticky heat conductive silicon(?) -- non-electrically conductive as the big one on the bottom touches the board directly under the gig-e switch. It takes a combination of patience and force to get everything apart. I DO NOT RECOMMEND IT. If you're good, you can get to the serial header without fully opening the case -- pull the LED bar off or remove only the bottom plate.
There doesn't appear to be any JTAG contacts, unlike the one sent to the FCC. There is a 10 (minus 1) pin header that looks like it might be the serial ports. The wireless radios are soldered into their mini-PCI sockets -- have they had problems with them falling out? Like many other Linksys products, there's a second set of solder pads for a different size/type flash chip.
so i take it upgrading and adding boosters to this router is going to be hard?? if anyone has done it to this router let me know how i need some more range out here
Joined: 05 Jan 2008 Posts: 52 Location: Raleigh, NC, USA, Earth
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 19:04 Post subject:
As you can (sorta) see in the last picture, the wires actually have connectors instead of being soldered, so replacing the antenna is rather simple. Of course, there are six (6) in total.
cramer you think i can get some high-rez versions of the pictures so i can get a better look? I'm not an amateur at soldering but not extremely confident in my skill espicall with a corporate piece of hardware
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 16:03 Post subject: Re: Vlans on WRT600N?
121mhz wrote:
Anyone try creating VLANs on it? I really just need to segregate ports out like I can do with my old WRT54GSes.
i don't see why that wouldn't work exactly the same as it does on other linksys routers. the main issue i see so far is support for both wireless radios.
So if the 2.4ghz radio is not working with the current firmware, I assume the 5ghz radio is working alright? I ask because I am wondering about setting it up in client bridge mode using 5ghz to connect to another wrt600n using linksys firmware. If the 5ghz radio is working, that should enable wireless n speeds to a device such as a media center pc that it is difficult to run a cable to.
Does anyone have an idea if this would work? I eagerly await full use of both radios, but until then, that might prove very useful.
Thanks _________________ WRT54Gv4 (DD-WRT v24 Final-STD) - Client Bridge
WRT54GLv1.1 (DD-WRT v24 Final-STD) - 802.11g Access Point
WRT54GSv2.1 (DD-WRT v24 Final-STD) - Main Router
WRT600Nv1.1 (DD-WRT v24 Final-Mega) - LAN PORTS DEAD
Does anyone have an idea if this would work? I eagerly await full use of both radios, but until then, that might prove very useful.
I'm right there with you I use DD-WRT in an industrial environment on a Linksys WRT54GL but the 2.4GHz wireless spectrum is heavily interfered with by some wirelessly controlled cranes. I therefore want to switch some of our wireless computers to 802.11a or n on the 5GHz spectrum but I don't want to lose the ability to use DD-WRT, so the WRT600N is looking really promising and I'm likely going to order one this week to start playing with. Even if it just works on the 5Ghz radio that would be good enough for me as I'd get one of those 802.11n dual-band USB nics from Linksys.
Is it easy to go back and forth between the standard Linksys firmware and DD-WRT in case I go to DD-WRT v24 RC6.2 and find it too unstable?