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Guide to DD-WRT (custom firmware) for DIR-615
m4p:
I'm back....Success!!!!! I just used IE 7 and flashed with the web GUI. No problems at all. At first I couldn't get internet after the flash (I use PPOE) but figured out you have to go into services and enable PPPOE Relay (even though I had chosen it in setup).
Right now I have it streaming to my bluray player as the main router. It's working great. But I still want a wired connection with the bluray player because it performs better that way. Right now using wireless, I'm getting about 156 Mbps. Is there any way to tweak it to get a higher rate?
I also have a Tenda W307R router (got it for free for attending a seminar) which isn't the greatest. I was going to use it as the main router but now I'm thinking to use the Dlink as the main router and the Tenda as the bridge. Not sure if the Tenda can be a bridge and there is no third party firmware support for it. It has a function called WDS but I'm not sure what that all means. From an ad for the Tenda router: "How many times have you had to add a network bridge to help extend your home or office network? Well the Tenda W306R and W307R has an easy solution for you WDS (Wireless Distribution System), this allows you to bridge other routers to extend that wireless network."
But I'm not sure if that means the Tenda has to be the main router or if it can be a bridge.
Edit: Meanwhile I also have a PC in my basement. With my old router, a Buffalo G with Tomato FW, I would get a strong signal and approximately 54 Mbps. I since bought a wireless N adapter and today connected with the Dlink. I was really disappointed at how bad the performance was. I barely am getting 6 Mbps, and can't connect to the internet (maybe because the signal was reading very poor, I don't know. Are the antennas removable on the Dlink?
Skello:
Great to hear you got it working.
WDS is strictly for bridging wireless clients. However, I think this build of DD-WRT, which is mini, because it has to fit onto 4 MB of ROM, doesn't have the WDS support. Go to Wireless > Basic Settings and under Wireless Mode see if you have anything with WDS.
Also, WDS is not a standard yet, and because of this chipset makers implemented it differently, leading to many incompatibilities between chipsets. DIR-615 E1 uses an Atheros chipset, while Tenda W307R (all revisions) uses Ralink chipsets. Problems are to be expected, even if the DIR-615 E1 DD-WRT build you have does support WDS.
If WDS is no go, then you are left with two options.
Option 1:
Use Tenda W307R in AP mode and the DIR-615 with DD-WRT in Client Bridge mode, with the blu-ray player connected over wired to it.
In this mode the blu-ray player will be on the same subnet, for example 192.168.1.X, with devices connected directly to the Tenda router. Not sure if that matters to you.
I'm fairly sure in this mode you won't be able to use the wireless on the DIR-615 to connect clients to it since it will be entirely dedicated for the connection to the Tenda W307R. I might be wrong though. You will, however, be able to connect wireless clients directly to Tenda and more wired clients to DIR-615.
Option 2:
Use DIR-615 as main router and AP and configure Tenda's wireless as "Station Mode." This will have pretty much the same effect on Tenda as the "Client Bridge" mode had on the DIR-615 in the first scenario, but the subnet will not be same.
Clients connected directly to DIR-615 will have 192.168.1.X IPs, while clients connected to Tenda, like the blu-ray, will have 192.168.2.X, for example. Accessing devices on 192.168.1.X subnet from the blu-ray (192.168.2.X) should be straight forward, but doing it the other way around would be problematic.
Also, in this option the blu-ray is also connected via a wired connection and the Tenda doesn't accept wireless connection from clients (I think).
So, without WDS support on the DIR-615 you can't really have the blu-ray connected via wireless, unless you link the two routers with a cable. But that deceives the purpose of your setup.
Also if different subnets are not an issue, I would choose option 2, because DIR-615 with DD-WRT would probably give your Internet connection more stability and will be able to handle more connections (like if you use torrents etc.) then Tenda.
Hope this helps. Looking forward on hearing what you chose and the progress made.
m4p:
Skello, thanks so much for the reply, you're a total hero. I checked the Dlink and it has under Wireless Mode, the option of WDS Station or WDS AP. I did try WDS previously with a Netgear and the Tenda and never could get it to work. I might not have been doing it right though.
I'm not sure yet which option to try. What I would eventually like to be able to do is have one of the N routers as the main router, then the other N router as a bridge for the bluray player which is N.
Then, I would like to have my Buffalo G router connected to the main N router. Then in the living room have my Buffalo ethernet converter connected to my Directv receiver which is G speed. That way I could keep my N and G separate.
Maybe too much, do you think? I would also like to eventually replace the Tenda with a better router like the Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH. I just need to find a good deal on one.
I would like to go with your Option 2, I think. Would DHCP be turned on both routers? I would assume yes?
m4p:
Another question, is there any way to boost the wireless performance in advance settings? Thanks
asherber:
I've got a DIR-615 rev E which I successfully flashed to DD-WRT. But now I've decided I don't like DD-WRT so much, and I'm having problems getting back to the original DLink firmware. I followed the guide at the DD-WRT wiki and here: http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=15521.0 but no luck. I'm seeing lots of the same things noted in that thread: Firefox 3.6 will bring up the ER, but only if I enter reset mode after powering up the router, and then it won't send the firmware (connection reset while loading); IE8 will bring up the ER but won't send the firmware; Chrome and Safari will bring up the ER and *look* like they're sending the firmware, but it appears they're not actually.
The posters in that thread both eventually got things working, but I keep hitting dead ends.
I'm running WinXP SP3. Any hints would be appreciated.
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