I have tried flashing the firmware listed on page 30 (ar670w_v1.01_892c.bin) about 20 times and it ALWAYS says upgrade failed.
If you're trying to flash the stock firmware on, make sure you use the emergency flash page NOT the normal dd-wrt flash page. You can read how to do that, it's in this thread. A super-nerd can find it I'm sure ;)
I know it works because I did it on 2 of my ar670w routers. I put dd-wrt on them, then went back to the stock firmware just to test the speed. Well dd-wrt was much faster, about 2x faster in my case, than the stock firmware. I haven't had any of the LAN problems you describe either. I think the "super nerd" thing to do would be keep reading and figure out what is wrong with your settings and fix it
I haven't had the LAN connectivity problem either, and the crappy wireless performance turned out to be DD-WRT defaults to channel 6 which at least 9 other routers in my neighborhood were also set to ch 6. You don't have to live in an apartment or dorm to get a ton of interference. I live in the 'burbs and see 20+ AP's within range at any one time. Must be a lot of young families not afraid of technology.
Be sure to change the channel to Auto or do a Site Survey and see which channel is the least used and use that one (mine chooses 11 when set to Auto which also appears to be the least used in Site Survey).
DD-WRT also defaulted to 20MHz bandwidth, 40MHz is better. _________________ Shawn
DD-WRT also defaulted to 20MHz bandwidth, 40MHz is better.
Manually setting 40Mhz was way better for me too.
It improved my throughput speed by 20-30 Mbps.
It went from about ~60 Mbps to ~90 Mbps. _________________ .
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Get off my channel, or face the wrath of my 2.4Ghz Wireless-N channel-bonded 40Mhz wide-band interference!
My routers:
- 1 Linksys E3000
- 4 Linksys E2000
- 4 Linksys WRT320n [DD-WRT svn13575 std-nokaid] working well in WDS setup, 5Ghz N-speeds only.
- 2 Airlink AR670W [DD-WRT build 14537] working well in WDS setup, 2.4Ghz N-speeds only.
- 2 Netgear WDNR3300 [DD-WRT svn13577 std-nokaid] working well in AP-Repeater-Bridge setup, 5Ghz N-speeds only.
- Airlink AR325W G-router and Belkin F5D7230-4 v1444 [DD-WRT v23 sp2 micro] working well in Repeater-Bridge setup, G-speeds only.
- D-Link DI-614+ B-router, sitting around, wanna buy it?
bbb_forever, thanks for your hard work and research.
If new FW is released for this router would it be posted here?
I think it depends on BrainSlayer.
The one-off Build 13069 was posted here in this thread to fix someone's particular Airlink problem.
But new Dev. builds could also possibly be posted in the "Other Downloads" directory, or the Router Database.
http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/support/other-downloads _________________ .
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Get off my channel, or face the wrath of my 2.4Ghz Wireless-N channel-bonded 40Mhz wide-band interference!
My routers:
- 1 Linksys E3000
- 4 Linksys E2000
- 4 Linksys WRT320n [DD-WRT svn13575 std-nokaid] working well in WDS setup, 5Ghz N-speeds only.
- 2 Airlink AR670W [DD-WRT build 14537] working well in WDS setup, 2.4Ghz N-speeds only.
- 2 Netgear WDNR3300 [DD-WRT svn13577 std-nokaid] working well in AP-Repeater-Bridge setup, 5Ghz N-speeds only.
- Airlink AR325W G-router and Belkin F5D7230-4 v1444 [DD-WRT v23 sp2 micro] working well in Repeater-Bridge setup, G-speeds only.
- D-Link DI-614+ B-router, sitting around, wanna buy it?
I installed the recomended DDwrt build from the router selector thing and now none of my LAN ports work - I see that there was an update posted that resolves this issue (http://svn.dd-wrt.com:8000/dd-wrt/changeset/13069) but how do I install that?
It looks like it is a bunch of .c files, do I need to have the serial cable, etc... to load them?
Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 100 Location: San Francisco, CA
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 19:39 Post subject:
phinnay wrote:
I installed the recomended DDwrt build from the router selector thing and now none of my LAN ports work - I see that there was an update posted that resolves this issue (http://svn.dd-wrt.com:8000/dd-wrt/changeset/13069) but how do I install that?
It looks like it is a bunch of .c files, do I need to have the serial cable, etc... to load them?
Thanks!!
The recommended build is a router-bricker.
gustav wrote:
Quote:
The latest release also bricked one of mine. Fixing it was simple. On a few pages back someone mentioned that if you hold down the reset button while plugging in the power, you'll get a recover webpage at 192.168.1.10
1) plug ethernet into the lan port
2) Assign your ethernet interface statically to 192.168.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0
3) Hold down the reset button and plug the power in while the reset button is held down
4) Open up your browser and navigate to http://192.168.1.10
You'll get a webpage (you won't be able to ping the device 192.168.1.10 - don't worry about that). Hit browse, select the factory firmware .bin then upload - and when it tells you to power cycle the device.
Worked fine for me to recover a bricked device.
You need either the newer 13069 build, or the previous build.
If anyone is still trying to set-up Repeater-Bridge (or Client-Bridge), I found a better solution:
Set-up WDS Bridging instead!
After extensive testing on Build 13069, I've found that setting-up WDS-Bridging is much easier and the preferred feature to use, instead of Repeater-Bridge mode or Client-Bridge mode.
Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 100 Location: San Francisco, CA
Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 4:02 Post subject:
phinnay wrote:
Quote:
You need either the newer 13069 build, or the previous build.
Where do I download the previous version or the new 13069 build?
tripper22 wrote:
Since people are having trouble downloading build 13069. I uploaded both the airlink-factory-webflash.bin and ar670w-ddwrt-webflash-13069.bin in a zip file. You need to flash with the factory one first and then the other if you are moving from the original firmware to dd-wrt.
Hello everyone!
In fact, what should i do to install dd-wrt firmware?
Could you tell me short step-by-step tutorial?
In DD-wrt download section i can see 2 files and it confuses me.
Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 100 Location: San Francisco, CA
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 23:48 Post subject:
sir-enmity wrote:
Hello everyone!
In fact, what should i do to install dd-wrt firmware?
Could you tell me short step-by-step tutorial?
In DD-wrt download section i can see 2 files and it confuses me.
Do NOT use the file in the router database for this router.
Download the two files right above you. Flash your router with the factory file, and you're set.
I connected it...plug the router in and see nothing through putty. Any advice. My conenctions are proper at:
57600 8N1
Hardware Flow Control : No
Software Flow Control : No
Im guessing this just isnt made correctly and it does need the 3.3V connection?
You'll need an RS-232 to TTL cable. Look at SparkFun.com
I stumbled on this thread this week while troubleshooting my v1 WRT54GS flashed router. I picked up a AR670W over the weekend and was surprised by the signal strength I was getting from it while connected to my laptop. Unfortunately, WDS between a g router and an n isn't that good (roughly 500k though I think my linksys is on it's way out), I decided to pony up another $40 and buy a second one and I'm pretty happy with the results. 5 megs/sec over my home network which is roughly 54mbit. Not bad for $80 to link two sets of PC's in different areas of the house.