Overclock a Linksys WRT54G

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2008
    Yes you can. Welcome to Icrontic. :)
  • DRAGTechDRAGTech
    edited July 2008
    Sir Thrax, Thank You Very Much for the warm welcome and the advise. Will check it out on Monday morning.

    Am kinda new to these wireless stuff (been a wired guy for several years).

    How about a D-Link Access Point? Does it have a similar approach too?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2008
    Right now only certain Linksys, Asus and Buffalo routers of certain versions are capable of using custom firmware and increasing their power output.
  • SinterSinter
    edited October 2008
    I'm impressed at how long this topic has remained relevent and at your participation in helping those of us poor souls with bad signal strength. I have a WRT54G v8. Is there any hope that I can boost its performance?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    DD-WRT Micro is supposed to work for WRT54G v7.2 and v8.0 routers. There are a lot of good instructions and links to files over here on the official DD-WRT wiki.

    Also, welcome to Icrontic, Sinter. Hope you want to stick around. :)
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    I overclocked my WRT54G and I can now browse anywhere in my yard and most of my neighbors. I kid you not. :)
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    And I've been in his yard, and it's large!
  • McBainMcBain San Clemente, CA New
    edited October 2008
    primesuspect wrote:
    And I've been in his yard, and it's large!

    :hrm:

    Is yard the new male euphamism for trunk?
  • pchobbyistpchobbyist Springfield,ma
    edited October 2008
    Thrax, Can anything be done w/the wrt54gs w/speedboost (speed boost is a waste)?
    Also refresh my memory on how to get into the linksys setup program? Thanks
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    It depends on what version of the WRT54GS that you have. Please type the model number and serial number information off of the label affixed to the bottom of the unit, and I can tell you what's available for it.

    You can access the router's firmware at the address 192.168.1.1 inside of a browser. The user/pass is admin/admin or just admin for the password.
  • pchobbyistpchobbyist Springfield,ma
    edited October 2008
    ser# cgn10d449294
    Model# wrt54gs w/speedboost. Thanks
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    You're in luck. You have a WRT54GS v1 which is amongst the most moddable versions in existence. I highly suggest Polarcloud's Tomato firmware. Flash the router with the WRT54GS.bin file from the firmware upgrade panel on the Linksys management page @ 192.168.1.1
  • pchobbyistpchobbyist Springfield,ma
    edited October 2008
    Great! But I can't get into the setup Admin is not working?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    USER: admin
    PASS: admin

    or

    USER: (don't type anything here)
    ADMIN: admin

    or

    USER: admin
    PASS: (don't type anything here)

    These are the defaults for the Linksys routers. If one of these three does not work, you'll need to reset the router via the button on the back of the unit and try again.
  • pchobbyistpchobbyist Springfield,ma
    edited October 2008
    OK This is the firmware version 2.07.1. Does this change things?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    Not at all. Just download from Tomato and update. :)
  • pchobbyistpchobbyist Springfield,ma
    edited October 2008
    I hate to be a pain but do I need a special program to open this file??
  • RyderRyder Kalamazoo, Mi Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    No... you do it from within the Admin panel of the router.

    Go to Administration and "Upgrade Firmware" then point it to the BIN file on your hard drive.
  • pchobbyistpchobbyist Springfield,ma
    edited October 2008
    Wow bin file? ok where would this be? This tomato file is 7z file!?!?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    A 7z file is a compressed file, similar to .ZIP. You'll need the WinRAR or 7Zip program to open it.
  • pchobbyistpchobbyist Springfield,ma
    edited October 2008
    Error: wrong image file?? Any ideas and as you can see nothing really goes 123 for me. Thanks again.
  • pchobbyistpchobbyist Springfield,ma
    edited October 2008
    Update complete!!!
  • pchobbyistpchobbyist Springfield,ma
    edited October 2008
    Whats the best way to see if its made a diff.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    In the left menu go to ADVANCED >> WIRELESS >> Transmit power. Change the transmit power to 48 and apply the setting. Your signal strength should increase.
  • pchobbyistpchobbyist Springfield,ma
    edited October 2008
    For some reason i've lost signal strength? Any ideas more tweaks I don't know about?? Thanks :(
  • pchobbyistpchobbyist Springfield,ma
    edited October 2008
    So I redid all the steps in the process and I must of missed something along the way,but every thing is working great now. Thanks for the help.:cool:
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    Another happy customer... :D
  • sebtussebtus
    edited February 2009
    Ia is there a 3party firmware/hack for WRT54GX4??
  • Your-Amish-DaddyYour-Amish-Daddy The heart of Texas
    edited February 2009
    No, I have one and it's rogered me good. I've just gone in and added some cheapo belkin routers as access points, and set them to be switches. Seems to work.
  • foolkillerfoolkiller Ontario
    edited February 2009
    I just thought that I'd add that DD-WRT supports a really broad range of routers. You can see their support page here: http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv3/dd-wrt/hardware.html

    One note, if you have an older WRT54G or GS, You'll want to use the Vintage firmware. That tool should tell you exactly which you need.

    I have 3 different Linksys routers, WRT54GS v3.0, WRT54G, and a WRT310N and they all run DD-WRT nicely with 84mW transmit power (That is the max safe xmit you can run.)
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