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I've looked here again after a while and I can't belive the problem is still not solved....
Since I've flashed Tomato a few weeks ago I've forgotten that I have a router- it's working perfectly getting dust because i do not touch it at all :-)...
Parental control works perfectly, 0 drops, strong signal - save your time and do a similar thing!
I've looked here again after a while and I can't belive the problem is still not solved....
Since I've flashed Tomato a few weeks ago I've forgotten that I have a router- it's working perfectly getting dust because i do not touch it at all :-)...
Parental control works perfectly, 0 drops, strong signal - save your time and do a similar thing!
Can someone tell me what Tomato is and how to flash it plz? I want to stream movies but its not possible with this crappy firmware.. If this doesn't get solved i return this thing to the retail store and get something else that DOES work..
Open wrt and tomato are router firmware written by the public. As such there is no real direct support. They only support specific chipsets.
Open wrt supports more devices and is more stable on a wider variety of devices including those outside netgear. However it's a lot more complicated than Tomato.
Tomato is considered the lightweight easier to use version of open wrt. It is less universally compatible however and you can still hang yourself.
They really aren't for basic computer users. You can't use Netgear genie on them. If you don't understand what the settings are on the webpage router version, tomato is not for you. And I'm not sure what kind of support you will get if you brick your device with tomato (which is a small possibility if you set up the firmware wrong)
I've applied the latest 1.0.9.18 build .chk file via tftpd to revert to normal Netgear build from dd-wrt. However, whenever I browse to 192.168.1.1 the browser redirects me to http://www.routerlogin.net/genie_index.htm which of course doesn't connect as I haven't set the router up with WAN yet.
Can someone please enlighten me as to how I can get to my router settings page so I can change IP address, WiFi passwords etc? Very strange how it tries to go to the internet.
Thanks
Model: R7000|Nighthawk AC1900 Dual Band WiFi Router
The NG firmware overrides the lookup for www.routerlogin.net and returns the router IP for it. If you are not using the router's DNS server it won't work. Just go directly to http://192.168.1.1, or whatever you have the router at.
Hmm ok, thanks. I have been going straight to http://192.168.1.1 and it keeps redirecting me back. I'll try setting my DNS manually to that of 192.168.1.1
Q: Does Asus know about this project? A: Yes. We frequently exchange emails, and they have also integrated some of the features and bug fixes from this firmware project into the stock firmware. So far they have been quite supportive of this project, for which I am very grateful.
Q: Does Asus know about this project? A: Yes. We frequently exchange emails, and they have also integrated some of the features and bug fixes from this firmware project into the stock firmware. So far they have been quite supportive of this project, for which I am very grateful.
Might want to look https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/DD-WRT-and-other-third-party-firmware/m-p/44..., message 24... 3rd parties might not have the rights to distribute all code, so either the function would/could be missing, or the entire binary could be considered illegal possibly. Maybe 'someone' is turning a 'blind eye' on it but at some point it might be necessary to remove the firmware (if that is even possible to determine who has it?)?
They don't need to remove 3rd FW. All they need to do is make future firmware releases not functioning in non-ASUS router. Should not be that hard to check the hardware before starting up. As far as I know, some of ASUS firmware modules are not open source.
I took the plunge and installed Tomato and no wifi drops. Pretty simple to install. I also run some linux computers and I am now able to print from linux to the network printer.
