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!

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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This entry will guide you through the flashing of DIR-320 to DD-WRT firmware. The DIR-320 uses a Broadcom chipset and they have relatively easy way of flashing. No more messy RedBoot, just use your system and TFTP the firmware in two seconds after powering up the DIR-320.

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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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QoS has always been the weak point of dd-wrt. Either the capabilities do not match up to others (openwrt, tomato) or they simply don’t work.

The reason is simple.

The one that work is called Special Edition. Check out dd-wrt’s shop for v24 special. Check out the wiki for the screenshot.

Last time DARK (my group of buddies) had this crazy idea of VPN-ing our home networks. Chatted with Keny yesterday and so happened he was thinking about it too. Thought of using dd-wrt based routers to do point-to-point VPN but seems like using ms chap for authentication is not really secure. *roll eyes*

Had another crazy idea of using a small device, perhaps a D-Link DIR-300 to QoS my network. The QoS provided by the DIR-655 is not really extensive. I was looking for guaranteed bandwidth and stuffs. But seems like none of the third party firmwares offer protocol analysis. One major concern would be the switching capacity and connection session. Hope it would be more than what my DIR-655 can handle!

Time to look for a traffic shaper that has been implemented on third party devices.