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Netgear Nighthawk 7000 Tomato Flashing
Hello all. I am in an effort to install Tomato firmware on a new R7000 Nighthawk I just purchased (never been connected to the internet before). After installing the initial file, I am no longer ab...
jaeholme wrote:Sorry if this was not the right place for this question.
This is certainly the place for that questions. But the number of people qualified to answer it is limited. Most people here stick with the official firmware.
Probably wouldn't hurt to do a factory reset. This will erase any leftover, incompatible nvram settings from the stock firmware. Then try logging in Tomato's default account.
You're probably in the wrong place for help on this, but after having flashed Tomato, reverted to stock and vice versa several times--I can assure you it works fine. One thing that catches some Tomato newcomers out is that DHCP server is disabled by default in Tomato, so you'll need to assign youself an IP manually (e.g. IP: 192.168.1.10. subnet: 255.255.255.0, gateway: 192.168.1.1) in the range of the router (which has IP 192.168.1.1).