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Quite possibly the stupidest questions ever?

SmoochyTX

SmoochyTX

Lifer
Be gentle with me - I'm a router moron. Here goes nothing....

First of all I have a Linksys WRT54GL v1.1 that I bought in about February 2007. I've never had a problem with it and have been running the stock firmware on it since I bought it. I have a laptop with Vista Home Premium hooked up to it in case that's important.

Anyway, on Wednesday I set up my HDHomerun on the network and was working on getting it straightened out to watch streaming TV on the laptop. Unfortunately, after about five minutes of streaming TV the router would lock up and the only way I could get back online was to unplug the power and then plug it back in.

I mentioned this to a friend and he said I should flash to the latest firmware version on Linksys' site. So I flashed it to the version that's showing on their page -- 4.30.2. The page says that the date of that version is 08/31/2007.

Now I don't remember the version it showed in my router status page before I flashed it but the year of the version was definitely 2007. But after I flashed it to 4.30.2 the date of that version shows as November 14, 2005. I mentioned that to my friend and he thought it was strange (as did I) but we went on to troubleshoot the HDHomerun.

I could now view streaming TV without the router locking up BUT the quality was nowhere near what it was before I flashed (basically unwatchable). A little bit ago I tried to stream from my Xbox 360 to my laptop using PlayOn and it tells me the connection isn't strong enough (it had been streaming perfectly before).

So poking around today, I see on the wiki for WRT54GL that the current firmware version is 4.30.11 as of May 8, 2008. I've searched and come across posts about people using .11 but can't find that version anywhere! I'd be happy just to have a firmware version that's good enough for me to properly stream again.

So the stupid questions are:

If .11 is the current version (as of May 2008) then why does Linksys show .2 (August 2007 yet shows up as November 2005???? when logged into my router)?

Where can I find a current version to get me back to where I was at least?


Sorry for the long post. Just wanted to try and include as much info as I could. Let me know if you need any more information. Thanks ahead of time.

ETA to add links:

http://www.linksysbycisco.com/...pport/WRT54GL/download

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L..._WRT54G_series#WRT54GL
 
If you look at the release notes on the download link for the firmware it says that the 4.30.2 firmware was created on 11/14/2005 and released to the public on 12/6/2005. The 08/31/2007 date on the downloads page is just the date that the most recent copy was "updated" on the page.

You can get the 4.30.12 firmware (release date 1/10/2008) by selecting version 1.0 of the router instead of version 1.1 on the download page. I'm not sure why it doesn't come up as a download option for the router version 1.1 since there are fixes specifically for 1.1 in the release notes of the firmware.
 
There are new options for the 1.0 revision hardware, which might even be compatible with the 1.1 hardware. You could try Linksys Support for that information or their links to newer "1.1" firmware.

You could try third-party firmware such as DD-WRT or Tomato. There's no guarantee that it would be better, but you'd think that they've absorbed at least the latest that Linksys had to offer as of 2007 by studying their open source. DD-WRT is also richly-featured and very popular. You won't however get Linksys support, be as it may, for DD-WRT.
 
Originally posted by: Fardringle
If you look at the release notes on the download link for the firmware it says that the 4.30.2 firmware was created on 11/14/2005 and released to the public on 12/6/2005. The 08/31/2007 date on the downloads page is just the date that the most recent copy was "updated" on the page.

You can get the 4.30.12 firmware (release date 1/10/2008) by selecting version 1.0 of the router instead of version 1.1 on the download page. I'm not sure why it doesn't come up as a download option for the router version 1.1 since there are fixes specifically for 1.1 in the release notes of the firmware.
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Thank you very much! This worked for me and now everything's back to normal (at least as far as I can tell).

Streaming for PlayOn and Netflix via Xbox is back and even the HDHR is running better and without locking up the router (settings for that still need a little work though).

:thumbsup:
 
Ditch the Linksys firmware and use DD-WRT. Only reason why you would've purchased was to use 3rd party firmware like DD-WRT. Right?
 
I have the same router, version 1.1 also, but I just select version 1.0 and installed the 4.30.12 firmware. I have been running it for 6 months now no problems works great!
 
Originally posted by: geokilla
Ditch the Linksys firmware and use DD-WRT. Only reason why you would've purchased was to use 3rd party firmware like DD-WRT. Right?
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Yeah, that was one of the main reasons I bought it. But since it worked just fine starting out I never got around to it.
 
Originally posted by: geokilla
Ditch the Linksys firmware and use DD-WRT. Only reason why you would've purchased was to use 3rd party firmware like DD-WRT. Right?
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That my be true for members of Enthusiasts forums but there is Millions of WRT54 in market and it is the Marketing and the Linksys/Cisco name that sold it.

The irony is that the WRT54G is bellow par device with very mediocre Radio.

However, it is hard to beats DD-WRT.
 
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