this is how my first attempt went with my RT-N66U i got the other day
1. cleared the nvram via the GUI
2. powered the router OFF
3. powered the router on booting in recovery mode and started flashing tomato
:repeated the above steps 8 times without results would upload ok but 5/10m would go by and it would reboot and then kick me back to the CFE recovery page
4. did a 30/30/30 reset and use the WPS/reset combo to clear the nvram before the CFE kicked in <tried this 3 times before it took
finally flashed tomato tomato-K26USB-NVRAM60K-1.28.0503.6MIPSR2Toastman-RT-N-VLan-std and then proceeded to clear the nvram again for good measure after that finally rebooted and brought tomato up
6. flashed tomato-K26USB-NVRAM60K-1.28.0503.6MIPSR2Toastman-RT-N-VLAN-Ext via the tomato GUI and cleared the nvram again for good measure
7. and for laughs I flashed back to the ASUS firmware and then flashed tomato again this time without issue
so the question is the stock CFE/asus firmware causing some sort of issue with initial flashing ? rebooting to early or not uncompromising/writing stuff properly ? or even having issue with formatting the NAND because it seems once tomato gets flashed from that point on its good
also of note incase RMerlin reads this thread I did try his firmware today and had severe issues with the wifi speed with my brothers ps4 it went from 25Mbit/s to ~10Mbit/s flashing back to tomato corrected the issue could have been some kind of coincidence but I don't feel like doing the firmware flash dance to test it
if its one thing I really wish tomato had it would get hardware acceleration/CTF support
the LAN<>LAN performance without is markedly slower witch does have a impact if you are mulipl streaming large >1080p vidoes
1. cleared the nvram via the GUI
2. powered the router OFF
3. powered the router on booting in recovery mode and started flashing tomato
:repeated the above steps 8 times without results would upload ok but 5/10m would go by and it would reboot and then kick me back to the CFE recovery page
4. did a 30/30/30 reset and use the WPS/reset combo to clear the nvram before the CFE kicked in <tried this 3 times before it took
finally flashed tomato tomato-K26USB-NVRAM60K-1.28.0503.6MIPSR2Toastman-RT-N-VLan-std and then proceeded to clear the nvram again for good measure after that finally rebooted and brought tomato up
6. flashed tomato-K26USB-NVRAM60K-1.28.0503.6MIPSR2Toastman-RT-N-VLAN-Ext via the tomato GUI and cleared the nvram again for good measure
7. and for laughs I flashed back to the ASUS firmware and then flashed tomato again this time without issue
so the question is the stock CFE/asus firmware causing some sort of issue with initial flashing ? rebooting to early or not uncompromising/writing stuff properly ? or even having issue with formatting the NAND because it seems once tomato gets flashed from that point on its good
also of note incase RMerlin reads this thread I did try his firmware today and had severe issues with the wifi speed with my brothers ps4 it went from 25Mbit/s to ~10Mbit/s flashing back to tomato corrected the issue could have been some kind of coincidence but I don't feel like doing the firmware flash dance to test it
if its one thing I really wish tomato had it would get hardware acceleration/CTF support
the LAN<>LAN performance without is markedly slower witch does have a impact if you are mulipl streaming large >1080p vidoes
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