New Asus RT-N66U Router

[hggomes]

Yeah mister WPTE I'm talking based on previous routers like RT-N56U, i just hope that things could be better... But i dont really know if that will happen

Starting from the problems on the first RT-N66U units... It tells too much

[thE_29]

Are there any alternative firmwares out for the router?

[hggomes]

Here you have:

http://tomato.groov.pl/index.php?dir...V-EN%2FRT-N66U

[hggomes]

Interesting, tomato-K26USB-1.28.RT-N5x-MIPSR2-085V-AIO.trx FW :P

[shantanugoel]

Interesting, tomato-K26USB-1.28.RT-N5x-MIPSR2-085V-AIO.trx FW :P

Awesome.. btw how much NVRAM are you left with after installing this?

[wpte]

Awesome.. btw how much NVRAM are you left with after installing this?

not a lot.... in fact you have to reset the entire nvram when you installed it, because initially you don't have enough room.
tomato and dd-wrt require too much nvram it seems

[shantanugoel]

not a lot.... in fact you have to reset the entire nvram when you installed it, because initially you don't have enough room.
tomato and dd-wrt require too much nvram it seems

Thanks. I read on tomato forums though that victek builds have a method which increases the nvram space available on some routers (He says that total available is 128k but only 32k is mapped and his builds can auto detect and change mapping or something. His RT-n16 build already can change this to 60k.) Hope this change comes to all tomato builds and can be used for rt-n66u as well.

[thE_29]

Any progress-updates for the http://code.google.com/p/wl500g/ firmware on the N66U?

[lly]

Any progress-updates for the http://code.google.com/p/wl500g/ firmware on the N66U?

Not yet. It requires Broadcom SDK newer than 5.100, currently we use 5.60.

[shantanugoel]

Thanks. I read on tomato forums though that victek builds have a method which increases the nvram space available on some routers (He says that total available is 128k but only 32k is mapped and his builds can auto detect and change mapping or something. His RT-n16 build already can change this to 60k.) Hope this change comes to all tomato builds and can be used for rt-n66u as well.

quoted for the new page. Also it seems that tomato uses ddwrt optware feed. Does anyone know if that is fully compatible with tomato? Waiting for the oleg/lly/themiron etc's work to start on n66u so that it can be as awesome as my current wl500w

[hggomes]

Not yet. It requires Broadcom SDK newer than 5.100, currently we use 5.60.

What SDK version is Tomato FW running? It seems stable so far, couldn't you use they're repository / drivers? It's being a little bit painful having the router and not the FW :P

Thanks

[lly]

What SDK version is Tomato FW running?

5.100.138, but it is not latest SDK

It seems stable so far, couldn't you use they're repository / drivers? It's being a little bit painful having the router and not the FW :P

Unfortunately, not. Take a look at Toastman post - DRIVER FOR THE RT-N16

Additionally, neither theMIROn, nor me, haven't RT-N66U for experiments yet.

[hggomes]

Ok, we will have to wait

RT-N66U is available now worldwide, almost every store have it, prices go from 140€ to 220€

PS: DD-WRT have access to Broadcom SDK right? Why they have and others don't?

[lly]

PS: DD-WRT have access to Broadcom SDK right? Why they have and others don't?

Yes. Only I know - they(DD-WRT) are commercial structure and sign NDA with some Broadcom licensor.

Both us & Tomato are non-profit community and Broadcom never want to speak with private person.

[hggomes]

So in that case how would this be solved? Wait for what or for who? How the actual 5.60 was available to you? And 5.100 to tomato? Aren't drivers available on OpenSource FW available on ASUS site? Even it's not 100% stable i think it was a good idea releasing your FW like Tomato did, it's better than nothing...