Not a good idea in my opinion with this router . . . too many bricks (however, I'm glad you got it fixed). In general, best to find something that works and stick with it unless some special need arises that requires another flash.
For the record that was me upgrading along the way. I've owned the C9 for 3 months now, and other than the initial issues with the MAC addresses being wiped I've had zero issues. I've upgraded 7 or 8 times over the course of that time and don't think I've had any significant issues with any of the builds.
My only secret is delaying upgrading to newer builds until I see fairly happy reports in the build threads. Some of those builds have causes regressions (various USB/filesystem issues seem to have been the most popular), but later builds have been good about fixing those issues.
Part of my upgrading is for security issues (lots of OpenSSL updates recently), part has been to do my part to report how well things are still working on this router, and part is just seeing novel things and wanting to play with them.
I'd say it's been quite painless.. the worst I've suffered is having to re-apply settings in the services page to get DNSmasq configuration correct.
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2016 1:28 Post subject: Signal Noise & SNR are always zero
Running the 29837 build on a black C1900 router (equivalent to C9 v2) and noticed there's no data for wireless clients' signal strength. Anybody else having this issue?
Interestingly if I click the "Site Survey" button the list has good values for RSSI and Noise.
Hello
I am experiencing problems in setting my openvpn connection with this router (I have never had problems with Linksys).
I have white Archer c9 v1
Basically it happens that log says
Client: CONNECTED SUCCESS
BUT in reality there is no internet connection.
I have tried different betas, especially recent ones. Also tried the popular r28598
Any idea of a build which might work specifically for openvpn ?
(I get the same problem with different providers, ibvpn,airvpn...."connected success" but no real internet connection)
I just updated my V1 to Build 29837 coming from 28598 without any issuem, using the web flash bin.
I can see the correct values in signal and errors but its the same like in 28598, i only see up to 600 Mbps on wifi - it never goes up to 1300 :-/
Glad the update went through without any problems. Are you sure that your wireless card has full capability to 1300MB/s because you won't see that theoretical speed without it. On my laptop the wireless card is only a 2.4 GHz wireless n 1x1, so all I see on the wireless TX rate is 65MB/s (getting an actual 40-45, so I'm happy with that). My max speed from my isp is about 60, so pretty close, and I get the max isp speed with the 5 GHz band with a 433 MB/s TX rate.
It does 867 Mbps on 5G and my S7 came on speeds around 300Mbit/s in real test.
My dd-wrt gui lists the max speed of my 5G on 600 Mbps which seems to be true as the S7 matches that speed in realtest. Wonder what else i might need to set to see 1300 there, and i think my C9 should be able to show these speeds even with no client connected.
It does 867 Mbps on 5G and my S7 came on speeds around 300Mbit/s in real test.
My dd-wrt gui lists the max speed of my 5G on 600 Mbps which seems to be true as the S7 matches that speed in realtest. Wonder what else i might need to set to see 1300 there, and i think my C9 should be able to show these speeds even with no client connected.
It appears that dd-wrt isn't up to 'speed' with this router when it comes to real world tests. That's why on page 34 I asked people to report their results since it seems that not getting expected speed is a consistent complaint throughout this thread. On the other hand, it seems that the stock firmware has performed up to task in this regard. It's not a problem for me because, as said above, my isp maximum is about 60Mb/s but I don't think I'd be too happy if I had higher speed service. Were you getting the same results with r28598? Have you tried adjusting the Quality of Service (NAT/QoS) settings at all? I was also wondering whether you've tested your wired, as opposed to wireless, speeds with r28598 and r29837 and, if so, what have you gotten?
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2016 9:19 Post subject: Struggling to flash upgrade
I have a white C9 v1 currently running r28444.
I'm trying to upgrade to r29837 which I have running on another C9 (v2)
Trying webflash of archer-c9v1-webflash.bin produces a connection reset error at about '297' in the countdown, using Firefox, Chrome, IE, Edge, on 2 different computers. After this the router is unresponsive until a power cycle; then it comes back up with r28444.
Trying the TFTP method I can see the router download the image and it appears to work - but comes back up with r28444 again (not a cache issue, it displays 28444 when I ssh into it too)
I've also tried wget-ing the image directly onto the router; it downloads successfully but becomes unresponsive during the 'write' command and needs power cycling before coming back up with r28444.
As well as r29837 I've tried 'ddwrt-to-factory.bin' from ArcherC9RevertToStock.zip by chrisdmc.
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2016 2:09 Post subject: Re: Possible Brick
matteodv wrote:
I really don't know what's happened but now the router is stuck in an infinite loop... I mean, all LED lights turn on for 2/3 seconds as if the router is booting and then they all turn off for 10/15 seconds, and this over and over again....
I tried both 30 and 30/30/30 hard resets but without any luck...
Is it bricked/semi-bricked, right?
For reference I had this exact behavior, in fact I had it with the stock firmware straight out of the box. I am using the router as a repeater, and would get this when I tried to connect to my existing wifi. It may not work for everyone, but I fixed this by removing all the antennas. Once it couldn't detect any wifi signals it would boot up fine, and then I could reset all the settings, and reconnect the antennas.
Do you guys think if the final version of the DD-WRT for the Archer C9 will be released this year ? I really want to update but when I read this post I saw people having problems with the beta version.
Do you guys think if the final version of the DD-WRT for the Archer C9 will be released this year? I really want to update but when I read this post I saw people having problems with the beta version.
The last builds declared 'stable' by Brainslayer was in 2008. You have to go with the beta that you're most satisfied with. See 'stable' category releases here: http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/support/other-downloads
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Were you getting the same results with r28598? Have you tried adjusting the Quality of Service (NAT/QoS) settings at all? I was also wondering whether you've tested your wired, as opposed to wireless, speeds with r28598 and r29837 and, if so, what have you gotten?
