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cramer
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:06    Post subject: Reply with quote
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.

[Serial port: X (RX) X X (TX) ]



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shin234
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 17:15    Post subject: Reply with quote
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 Razz
cramer
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 19:04    Post subject: Reply with quote
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.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 19:14    Post subject: Reply with quote
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 Razz espicall with a corporate piece of hardware

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121mhz
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 4:41    Post subject: Vlans on WRT600N? Reply with quote
Anyone try creating VLANs on it? I really just need to segregate ports out like I can do with my old WRT54GSes.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:32    Post subject: Reply with quote
shin234 wrote:
cramer you think i can get some high-rez versions of the pictures...
This big enough?


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bigbambo
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 16:03    Post subject: Re: Vlans on WRT600N? Reply with quote
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.
121mhz
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 0:49    Post subject: Reply with quote
For the record vlans work great, just use the same old vlan0ports,vlan1ports,... method. One note, looks like the CPU is listed as 8.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 19:56    Post subject: Reply with quote
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.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 16:14    Post subject: Reply with quote
hawkeye wrote:

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 Smile 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?
bigbambo
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 22:41    Post subject: Reply with quote
i'm hoping it all works in the next rc and/or final release.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 17:37    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yeah me too. I have been holding out on a new router but I'm going to just go ahead and buy one. I can waite for my dd-wrt vpn access.
bigbambo
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 18:48    Post subject: Reply with quote
P00PDOG wrote:
Yeah me too. I have been holding out on a new router but I'm going to just go ahead and buy one. I can waite for my dd-wrt vpn access.


i installed 9022 and besides some cosmetic issues all seems to be working fine.
lceron
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 21:49    Post subject: Reply with quote
Are both radios working, bigbamboo?
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 23:00    Post subject: Reply with quote
lceron wrote:
Are both radios working, bigbamboo?




I think that build 9022 fixed that but still waiting for the final release.
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