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Fast Intentions
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Help With First time.

Hi Everyone, 

 

First I'd like to say i am completely new at this, and I am trying to collect all the information as far as how to's and benefits of hacking my new R8000 router. so with that in mind please dont kill me for asking these questions , if they are posted somewhere else and you can link me i would really appreciate it. 

my main question for everyone is : What are the Benefits of DD-WRT rooted routers? thats really my main determining factor on whether I should proceed or not.

 

Thank You in advance for any and all help

Fast Intentions
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im willing to pay for

im willing to pay for professional private help with this.

waydavis
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MY advise is DO NOT screw

MY advise is DO NOT screw with your router.  These 3rd party builds are so flakey as to render them damned near useless.  I have found this to be true FIRST hand via 3 different router models.  LIVE with stock.  I SPENT HOURS AND HOURS dinking around with them till I finally just said  FXXX IT and reverted back to original OEM firmware.

Fast Intentions
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thanks for the reply. wow im

thanks for the reply. wow im very surprised i wasnt expecting this .

888sydney
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Here is my experience...

Here is my experience...

Also was using stock firmware on R8000 for about 7 months after purchase....

Wifi speed is fast when working. After being up for 1-2 weeks, one of the 5Ghz bands has extreme poor wifi speeds.... <2Mbps... normal is >90+ Mbps...

Reload and issue is fixed... but problem happens again...

No issue with wired devices

 

So i took the plunge and use ddwrt (Kong's firmware)

Firmware: DD-WRT v3.0-r27775M kongac (09/07/15)

And wifi has been great... stable for months...

 

All depends on how you use ddwrt.... for simple Internet router... for me has been good.

No fancy features used:-
DHCP for Internet ip addressing (no PPPoe)
NAT
2.4GHz & 5Ghz (all on different SSIDs)
DDNS, OpenVpn, SSH

Not used:-
No vlans
No USB/NAS

 

waydavis
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And to that I would say:  If

And to that I would say:  If you are using it as a "simple router" then STAY with the OEM firmware.  IT will WORK.   I wanted to actually USE the cool features.  What I GOT was the Hindenburg.