Hello, this is my fisrts post here,

I already own a WNR3500L V1 running TomatoUSB 1.28 for a while now and having some low signal on my 2nd floor (Router in basement) I purchased another identical Wnr3500L V1 to use it as a wifi repeater.

Stock firmware worked perfectly.

Now what I started doing was a 30/30/30 reset then flashed the DD-WRT initial CHK file, all ok. Then I flashed the same version TomatoUSB 1.28 than my router #1.

Everything worked perfect, but I read that DD-WRT supported Wireless Client mode better than Tomato (I did not want to use WDS) So I wanted to revert to DD-WRT.

30/30/30 reset again and I dowloaded (what I tought was...) the latest firmware from Netgear.

I proceeded to flash the Netgear Firmware 1.0.0.30 and all went perfect again. Except When I reset and reboot I see the menus and GUI are different and some tab titles are missing (The tabs work, but you see what they are once you are inside them)

It is then I understand I flashed a V2 firmware onto a V1 router (the firmware for the v1 in North America was really 1.22.44)

I am surprised , aside from some of the menu labels missing, everything is usable and works!  Wireless works.

My big problem is I want to revert to an earlier version and i does not work. I tried stock Netgear , DD-WRT, Tomato. Everytime I get the following error message after 3 seconds:

"Firmware upgrade failed. Please check your file.

I tried 30/30/30 many times, I tried Firefox 3, Firefox 9, Opera 11, Chrome and IE8 on both Linux and Windows 7 machines.  Upgrade always fail the same way.

I am stuck.  I read all your guides on "unbricking" a wnr3500l but my problem is the router is not bricked. It works!  Ligth is green and wifi and ethernet work fine.

I also tried the Netgear Recovery CD and the process told me my router was ok and did not need recovery.

Any help would be appreciated.