Monday, October 13, 2014

WDR3500v1 DD-WRT


This is a nice(and cheap) N600 router with DD-WRT support. As of this writing there is a problem with the default settings for this device in DD-WRT, but there is also a workaround for this issue.


Setup is the same as most DD-WRT installations. First use the router's GUI tool to flash the factory-to-dd-wrt image then use DD-WRT's GUI to flash the latest version of DD-WRT. I used an older factory-to-dd-wrt image that disabled ethernet connections, but was able to log in via wifi to upgrade to the latest fw image(you might not see this issue at all). Once I installed the latest image(24461) I noticed that internet traffic was working, but local ethernet to ethernet traffic was broken. The workaround to fix this was to add the following two lines to autorun on router startup. 
Link to DD-WRT FW build 24461 for this router. ftp://ftp.dd-wrt.com/betas/2014/06-23-2014-r24461/tplink_tl-wdr3500v1/