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   posted: Oct. 8, 2008 @ 12:16a

The price is back at $24.99, which makes me a little angry. I originally opted for In-store pickup but was sent a email telling me they did not have the item as advertised. So I had to create a new order and pay a extra $9.99 for 2nd day. Now I see the price has dropped from $29.99 to $24.99, as it originally was stated on this site. So all in all, I spent a extra $15. Needless to say, I fired out a email to customer service, but I doubt I will get anywhere.


   posted: Oct. 8, 2008 @ 2:17a

Has anyone experienced memory leak of dd-wrt on wnr834b v2?


   posted: Oct. 8, 2008 @ 9:01a

Just got mine last night and flashed DD-WRT.

Overall, I'm not that happy. My old trendnet router which was $5 AR (stock firmware) gave me a 'very good' signal strength one floor away. This new WNR834B with power set to 70 gives me a signal strength of 'low'.

WTF? Is it just because of the lack of external antennas?

Also, why is this router so frickin huge? The build quality is really poor - it looks like a kit someone put together from Radio Shack.

Also, I just read the Newegg reviews and am seeing lots of reports of routers dying. One guy had 4 out of 5 of his die within a few weeks. Another bought 3 and had 2 die.

I'm hoping that since this is a refurb it was sent in broken and properly fixed.


   posted: Oct. 8, 2008 @ 8:38p

NJRen said:Has anyone experienced memory leak of dd-wrt on wnr834b v2?

How does it manifest? My router has been up for a week and no problems. Memory usage at this moment still looks good (i.e. there is still 28% free memory same as when I rebooted it last).


   posted: Oct. 9, 2008 @ 2:47p

I flashed with std version. The free memory went from 1.2MB to 700KB in about 3 days. It even rebooted by itself once.

secstate said:NJRen said:Has anyone experienced memory leak of dd-wrt on wnr834b v2?

How does it manifest? My router has been up for a week and no problems. Memory usage at this moment still looks good (i.e. there is still 28% free memory same as when I rebooted it last).


   posted: Oct. 9, 2008 @ 3:30p

NJRen said:I flashed with std version. The free memory went from 1.2MB to 700KB in about 3 days. It even rebooted by itself once.

Ok I am running the mini version and I do not use the firewall features (I use IPcop for that) and I haven't seen anything like what you saw (still 28% free RAM)


   posted: Oct. 10, 2008 @ 12:54p

Here's a simple article that tells you how to enable ad blocking via the router....

http://my.opera.com/LaurensB/blog/2007/11/19/howto-add-ad-blocking-to-a-dd-wrt-router


I also note there is a new version of eko's dd-wrt firmware as of TODAY however the mini version is not yet there.


   posted: Oct. 10, 2008 @ 3:36p

Got mine working! Nice! But it won't let my print server print, shows up and pswizard works but it won't print to it. Is there a setting in dd-wrt that needs set in mini to allow it? I have the computer on one of the four lans and the print server on another. Great deal!


   posted: Oct. 10, 2008 @ 7:32p

Anyone know which bin to use to get my wnr834bv2 to DD-WRT v2.4SP1 OPENVPN? Thanks

[EDIT]
Nevermind. Flashed it with the mini chk file in the wiki first and then upgraded to the latest (9/26/2008) OPENVPN build here:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/downloads/others/eko/V24_TNG/svn10431/dd-wrt.v24-10431_NEWD_openvpn.bin


   posted: Oct. 12, 2008 @ 5:31p

i bought this router and flashed it to dd wrt v24 mini... i'm using a wireless G pci card to connect to it and it can't keep a steady connection. the router keeps rebooting every couple minutes. i googled it and other people have been having the same problem but there's no clear solution yet that i could find.

anyone have any suggestions? is there another third party firmware which is as good as dd-wrt i could try for this router? any advice would be greatly appreciated. thanks.


   posted: Oct. 12, 2008 @ 5:41p

slikazsilk13 said:i bought this router and flashed it to dd wrt v24 mini... i'm using a wireless G pci card to connect to it and it can't keep a steady connection. the router keeps rebooting every couple minutes. i googled it and other people have been having the same problem but there's no clear solution yet that i could find..

nquinn said:Just got mine last night and flashed DD-WRT.

Overall, I'm not that happy. My old trendnet router which was $5 AR (stock firmware) gave me a 'very good' signal strength one floor away. This new WNR834B with power set to 70 gives me a signal strength of 'low'.

Also, I just read the Newegg reviews and am seeing lots of reports of routers dying. One guy had 4 out of 5 of his die within a few weeks. Another bought 3 and had 2 die.

I'm hoping that since this is a refurb it was sent in broken and properly fixed.

Yeah this looks like a POS. Way too many issues being reported for this router.


   posted: Oct. 12, 2008 @ 6:09p

namlook said:slikazsilk13 said:i bought this router and flashed it to dd wrt v24 mini... i'm using a wireless G pci card to connect to it and it can't keep a steady connection. the router keeps rebooting every couple minutes. i googled it and other people have been having the same problem but there's no clear solution yet that i could find..

nquinn said:Just got mine last night and flashed DD-WRT.

Overall, I'm not that happy. My old trendnet router which was $5 AR (stock firmware) gave me a 'very good' signal strength one floor away. This new WNR834B with power set to 70 gives me a signal strength of 'low'.

Also, I just read the Newegg reviews and am seeing lots of reports of routers dying. One guy had 4 out of 5 of his die within a few weeks. Another bought 3 and had 2 die.

I'm hoping that since this is a refurb it was sent in broken and properly fixed.

Yeah this looks like a POS. Way too many issues being reported for this router.


I must have lucked out then....the 834v2 runnning 10431 build has been rock steady for me...just added ad blocking and enabled QOS...no reboot issues and I'm very happy with it.


   posted: Oct. 14, 2008 @ 12:15p

Newest set of drivers available here. Released today (10-14-08)


   posted: Oct. 14, 2008 @ 12:44p

I found this timeline describing the updates made to the newest versions:
DD-WRT Timeline

It's Greek to me, but might be helpful to others.

On that note, I've been a relative Luddite and stuck with the mini build of 9856 for my WNR834B. Are there any compelling reasons to update to a newer version?


   posted: Oct. 14, 2008 @ 1:41p

Which one are you loading cause I only see the .chk for our specific model and those of us already on dd-wrt will need the .bin


   posted: Oct. 17, 2008 @ 9:31a

are you guys only disconnecting when you have utorrent running?


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