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Now, I just upgraded from my Netgear WNR2000v3 to a Netgear AC1750, and I have a TV upstairs that I would like to get a Netflix capable router hooked up to without running an ethernet cable all the way up.
I have my old WNR2000v3 now, and I researched DD-WRT, and would like to install that onto my router. To answer your question, yes it's compatible. The issue was, this particular router's latest firmware limited the size of firmware that could be loaded onto it, so I now have to downgrade the firmware to a previous version.
I researched how to do this, I can't do it through the router setup page, it will only let you update the firmware, and checks if it's a previous version. So, I downloaded TFTP2 and the firmware I want to put on it. I put my router into that mode, forget what it's called, where I guess it's ready to take my firmware, where I hold down the reset button until the light blinked green 10 times, maybe called TFTP mode. Anywho, I did that, connected to my computer with a patch cable and set a static IP on my computer of 192.168.1.10, let it do the subnet mask thing automatically and set the default gateway as 192.168.1.1.
I opened up TFTP2, loaded in the firmware root, and typed in the server as 192.168.1.1. I hit upgrade, it says it's erasing the firmware whatever, then it fails with the error message,"Unable to get response from server."
Now, yes, plenty of people have had the same issue, and I spent plenty of time reading through each and every forum I could find, and none of them touched into exactly how to fix my issue. I ping 192.168.1.1 in command prompt and they all come back just fine, 0% loss, and yet I'm baffled to find that it doesn't work in TFTP2.
I have tried everything I could find to try to counteract the problem. I typed in the default password,"Password," I typed the server in as 192.168.0.1, I tried 192.168.1.10 and I even tried setting my IP as 8.8.8.8 and typing that in for the server and none of it works. I even tried it on a different computer to no avail. I am absolutely baffled as to why I am having so much trouble with this issue.
Any and all help is GREATLY appreciated, be it from any networking engineer genius or just some guy who knows his sh*t, I could use anything.
I have my old WNR2000v3 now, and I researched DD-WRT, and would like to install that onto my router. To answer your question, yes it's compatible. The issue was, this particular router's latest firmware limited the size of firmware that could be loaded onto it, so I now have to downgrade the firmware to a previous version.
I researched how to do this, I can't do it through the router setup page, it will only let you update the firmware, and checks if it's a previous version. So, I downloaded TFTP2 and the firmware I want to put on it. I put my router into that mode, forget what it's called, where I guess it's ready to take my firmware, where I hold down the reset button until the light blinked green 10 times, maybe called TFTP mode. Anywho, I did that, connected to my computer with a patch cable and set a static IP on my computer of 192.168.1.10, let it do the subnet mask thing automatically and set the default gateway as 192.168.1.1.
I opened up TFTP2, loaded in the firmware root, and typed in the server as 192.168.1.1. I hit upgrade, it says it's erasing the firmware whatever, then it fails with the error message,"Unable to get response from server."
Now, yes, plenty of people have had the same issue, and I spent plenty of time reading through each and every forum I could find, and none of them touched into exactly how to fix my issue. I ping 192.168.1.1 in command prompt and they all come back just fine, 0% loss, and yet I'm baffled to find that it doesn't work in TFTP2.
I have tried everything I could find to try to counteract the problem. I typed in the default password,"Password," I typed the server in as 192.168.0.1, I tried 192.168.1.10 and I even tried setting my IP as 8.8.8.8 and typing that in for the server and none of it works. I even tried it on a different computer to no avail. I am absolutely baffled as to why I am having so much trouble with this issue.
Any and all help is GREATLY appreciated, be it from any networking engineer genius or just some guy who knows his sh*t, I could use anything.
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