Asus RT-N66u with TomatoUSB firmware

[ThaDraGun]

Thanks that did work.
I also can enable my USB now.

Is there any help pages to show how to set up the USB part? My last tomato router did not have USB so Im not sure what to do.
All I want to do is share the USB hard drive over my network, and use it as a media server for my PS3.

oh one other thing I thought of.

I have a VPN subscription
The only information I have to login is

PPTP
vpn.us.Ngroups.NET
*my username
*my password

Now is there any way that I can log into that with my router? That way its connected on all my devices hooked up to the router?
The only information I can find shows how to make your own VPN... not connect to one. Is this possible?

 

[LaFemme69]

shibby v085

I'm new to flashing router with 3rd party sw, wondering if anyone can please help me.

I recently bought the rt-n66u and flashed with shibby latest fw, v085 by the miniweb method instead of using the recovery method. the upgrade was rather QUICK. I read somewhere that it takes up to 5 mins or more. My upgrade literately took only a min or so. I assumed that it was uploaded correctly because I managed to set up printer via the USB port, configured my airport express and connect a few pcs and wireless devices. Everything worked. However, I have a few questions:

(1) where can i go to reserve my IPs.....(DHCP Reservations)
(2) how do i edit/add the names of my connected devices?
(3) I connected NAS (synology ds111) to one of the LAN ports but I could not find it in my Device list.
(4) in setting up wireless in 'Basic', what's the difference b/w 'Access point' or 'Wireless client' as wireless mode? Does that affect throughput? I just want to connect my portable devices to the network wireless.
(5) I configured my airport express to the 5GHz band, my ipod touch 4G can only get 2.4GHz. Will the ipod touch see the AE?
(6) I'm trying to stream high bitrate 1080P mkvs from my office on the 2nd floor to a media player on the 1st fl but haven't seen much increase in throughput compared to my previous Dlink DIR-655. Is it something impossible to perfect or where else should I configure shibby fw to improve the throughput?

any help would greatly appreciated for now. thank you.

kd

 

[TonyH]

I'm new to flashing router with 3rd party sw, wondering if anyone can please help me.

I recently bought the rt-n66u and flashed with shibby latest fw, v085 by the miniweb method instead of using the recovery method. the upgrade was rather QUICK. I read somewhere that it takes up to 5 mins or more. My upgrade literately took only a min or so. I assumed that it was uploaded correctly because I managed to set up printer via the USB port, configured my airport express and connect a few pcs and wireless devices. Everything worked. However, I have a few questions:

(1) where can i go to reserve my IPs.....(DHCP Reservations)
(2) how do i edit/add the names of my connected devices?
(3) I connected NAS (synology ds111) to one of the LAN ports but I could not find it in my Device list.
(4) in setting up wireless in 'Basic', what's the difference b/w 'Access point' or 'Wireless client' as wireless mode? Does that affect throughput? I just want to connect my portable devices to the network wireless.
(5) I configured my airport express to the 5GHz band, my ipod touch 4G can only get 2.4GHz. Will the ipod touch see the AE?
(6) I'm trying to stream high bitrate 1080P mkvs from my office on the 2nd floor to a media player on the 1st fl but haven't seen much increase in throughput compared to my previous Dlink DIR-655. Is it something impossible to perfect or where else should I configure shibby fw to improve the throughput?

any help would greatly appreciated for now. thank you.

kd

HI,
Have you optimized QOS settings?

 

[LaFemme69]

HI,
Have you optimized QOS settings?

Thank you for replying. Yes, I'ved tried to optimize QOS but not even sure what I am doing is correct.

For both inbound/outbound, i tried to allocate more % to Media and Downloading but other than that not sure what else I can do.

what's odd is that i have the Synology NAS DS111 connected to the router. I can see it showed up on my MAC in the 'Shared' section but i could not find its IP address in the Device List in the ASUS Shibby v085 FW. what do you think could be wrong?

thanx.

kd

UPDATE: I finally fixed the NAS problem. Now, still trying to figure out the rest of other issues.

 

[mrcom]

500mw

Hi i have a question. The RT-N66U has radio certified to 500mw can you set it to this in the tomato firmwares, As for me i can only set my to100mw on stock firmware as im in europe but im curious if i can set it higher with tomato. Best regards Mrcom

 

[darksamus]

Hi i have a question. The RT-N66U has radio certified to 500mw can you set it to this in the tomato firmwares, As for me i can only set my to100mw on stock firmware as im in europe but im curious if i can set it higher with tomato. Best regards Mrcom

Why don't you try it and see what happens?

 

[konfuzed]

Why don't you try it and see what happens?

I've walked it up in increments to 250mw. I was trying to re-read their info on the side and I'm almost wondering if they don't have a pre-set base level, and the entry in the field is simply what's ADDED to that, since none of the presets + override make sense for any of the restrictions.

I couldn't make it take any entry higher than 250mw, and I saw no substantive performance issues over 120mw so far, so I figured I didn't need to ramp up the heat issues if iperf showed no difference.

 

[KevTech]

Just noticed build 87 on the website.

http://tomato.groov.pl/index.php?dir=K26RT-N/build5x-087V-EN/RT-N66U

[release] version 087V
Changelog:
- fix usb_modeswitch (libusb error). 3G support will works now
- USB Speed improved. Old schema detection enabled.
- miniDLNA update from 1.0.22 to 1.0.24
- little cosmetics changes in Overview page. Able to show/hide each section
- IP Traffic: when/if set to 'disabled', we 'really' mean it
- fix VLAN support for WNR3500Lv2 and remove JFFS support for this router
- remove JFFS and SNMP from BT-VPN build. Image was to big for routers with 8MB flash memory.
- propably this is the last release of K24

 

[mrcom]

Just noticed build 87 on the website.

http://tomato.groov.pl/index.php?dir=K26RT-N/build5x-087V-EN/RT-N66U

Hi im a tomato newbe is this shibby or toastman?

 

[KevTech]

Hi im a tomato newbe is this shibby or toastman?

Shibby builds

 

[WilliamY]

Which one is good? Shibby or Toastman, whats the difference between these 2 builds?

Thanks

 

[darksamus]

Which one is good? Shibby or Toastman, whats the difference between these 2 builds?

Thanks

This has already been answered. Search the pages off this thread.

 

[WilliamY]

V87 issue. The Qos outbound traffic graph was working fine in Shibby V85 (flashed from stock firmware). Then today, I flashed to V87 and restore my configuration, The Qos outbound traffice graph stop working.

 

[KevTech]

V87 issue. The Qos outbound traffic graph was working fine in Shibby V85 (flashed from stock firmware). Then today, I flashed to V87 and restore my configuration, The Qos outbound traffice graph stop working.

So....maybe you should not restore configuration but clear nvram and start over.

 

[WilliamY]

So....maybe you should not restore configuration but clear nvram and start over.

Hmmm, the cfg file was back up from V85, I thought it should be restored in V87 without any problem. I could be wrong, but thats not good.

 

[TC777]

I asked the same question but no one knows. I bet it is done in software. Would be expensive it was done in hardware.

It probably is software. I did find an article about beam forming:
http://www.ece.gatech.edu/research/GNAN/archive/2009/imc09p.pdf

The author of the Toastman software posted a message about the RT-N16 router and how they don't really have specific wireless drivers for each model of router. And how they can't fine tune the drivers.

http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.ph...ttings-for-n-speeds.36109/page-13#post-179689

I've tried both the Asus firmware and the Tomato Shibby. Its so hard to decide which I'll use. Every time I have installed the Asus firmware it always gives a stronger wireless signal. Tonight its RSSI strength reading was 10 stronger at the same locations (using the inSSIDer software).

But the Tomato firmware has nicer troubleshooting features. Like displaying the connected speeds of all the clients, and I also love its wireless survey feature. Something the Asus firmware doesn't have at all.

EDIT: I'm not sure what to think though, sometimes when I compare them at some locations there is no difference in strength between the two firmwares.

 

[RogerSC]

Yes, it is interesting the way that inSSIDer shows the signal strength for the wireless for the Asus firmware as being not so strong until you actually connect to it.

For example, just sitting around in a particular spot in my living room, not connected to the wireless, wireless signal strength will be about -50 to -55 dBm on inSSIDer (which is okay, but not strong), and then when I actually connect to it the strength goes up to about -40 dBm, which is pretty strong for my living room. That's not something I've noticed before with other routers.

 

[TonyH]

Yes, it is interesting the way that inSSIDer shows the signal strength for the wireless for the Asus firmware as being not so strong until you actually connect to it.

For example, just sitting around in a particular spot in my living room, not connected to the wireless, wireless signal strength will be about -50 to -55 dBm on inSSIDer (which is okay, but not strong), and then when I actually connect to it the strength goes up to about -40 dBm, which is pretty strong for my living room. That's not something I've noticed before with other routers.

AI beam forming at work?

 

[RogerSC]

AI beam forming at work?

That's what I'm thinking.

 

[WilliamY]

V87 issue. The Qos outbound traffic graph was working fine in Shibby V85 (flashed from stock firmware). Then today, I flashed to V87 and restore my configuration, The Qos outbound traffice graph stop working.

UPDATE: After I reset the modem, turn the router off and on, The Qos boutbound traffic graph is working again now.