The D-Link DIR-600 router is a one-third wireless N device. What is one-third wireless N? It simply means that its wireless feature can perform at speeds higher than wireless G (802.11g) and lower than wireless N (802.11n).

Now the D-Link DIR-600 supports DD-WRT. For those who like to get more out of their device, simply download the firmware from this dd-wrt forum thread. Flashing it is relatively straight forward, simply get into the emergency web server page (setting your computer IP to be 192.168.20.80/24, then follow the “Getting into Emergency Recovery Page” section of Flashing DIR-300 back to original firmware).

Have fun!

I will be closing the comments option for several post (DIR-300, DNS-323) due to the increase in a certain nature of comments.

After flashing back to original firmware from dd-wrt/open-wrt firmware. Users will notice that their wireless security (such as WPA2) don’t work as intended. This is due to the missing information found in the board config partition. This board config partition holds information such as:

• MAC ID of WAN interface
• MAC ID of LAN and WLAN interface
• PIN CODE for WPS
• Number of allowable wireless channels (11 or 13)

This guide aims to assist users in creating the board config file needed by their D-Link DIR-300. You would only need to do this if  wireless security (e.g. WPA2) is not working after restoring from dd-wrt for the DIR-300.

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This entry contains answers to questions raised by other users with regards to the installation and running of DD-WRT on D-Link routers. It also contains some troubleshooting hints and tips. You may find your answers in here.

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Heard of Netgear’s open source router – WGR614L? The specifications are similar to that of WRT54GL (16mb RAM, 4mb flash) but WGR614L is using the newer Broadcom processor. Other than that, its specifications are similar to that of WRT54G and DIR-300:

• Wireless G
• 4 x 10/100 LAN
• 1 x WAN

I really like the slim design of the WGR614L and most important of all – It supports 3rd party firmwares (dd-wrt, tomato, openwrt)! The WRT54G supports all of the 3 mentioned firmwares while the DIR-300 supports dd-wrt and openwrt only.

Got to flash it to tomato and set it to filter some protocols on some segments of my network.

I got hooked on the series of routers from D-Link. Seems like most of the newer offerings are all 3rd party firmware capable! The DIR-320 arrived recently and I scouted around for flashing guide and firmwares. Found a few firmwares – OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato. Couldn’t get Tomato to work though. Nevermind, enjoy the pictures first!

The DIR-320 packaging

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