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Dear Voxel,
first of all I want to thanks you for your effort to improuve the performance of this fantastic router.
I'm Gianni from Italy (so please apologize me for my bad english) since december owner of this router. Before bought it I read many forum were people wasn't happy about firmware and GUI, but I'm not a power user so I thought that for my need it could be enough.
Now after twomonth I fully understand what they meaning, every time to enter and check the log or device attached I spend time and not allways it showed
me the right situation, I try to use the donwloader manager (both USB or E-Sata) but it not responding and the download remain int the window for week (with trasmission the same BT file was downloaded in half hour), so I decided to move to custom firmware and your seems to be the more supported.
I read (more or less) all the page of this thread so I suppose this is the good one for me, it has Trasmission (that I know well) and it's based on the official firmware, so I suppose has the shedule for the on-off of WiFi (this is another features must to have) and the reserve of IP address (my wife has many printers so I need to use allways the same IP). Could you please confirm me It has this features ? Have you test also if the E-Sata port works well (I changed from USB because the WiFi was instable with the drive attached) ?
Last question, the other package are usefull or I can install just the firmware (reset before and after to install your firmware) ? Do you need to know the hardware version for the compatibility or all are the same ?
Many thanks in advance
Gianni
...obviusly the E-Sata was supported by external power.
I forgot a question: do the WiFi button (On-Off) working as well ?
Dear Gianni,
This firmware supports the schedule (Wi-Fi Off/On) - I have to use it, because my wife wants to sleep in "W-Fi free" environment ;-) You know, these woman...
Also, I use an IP reservation: my mini-server is connected to this router, but I have to use port forwarding to concrete IP of my server. Plus reservation of IP to access my laptop by RDP.
e-SATA: it works, fast. But I do not use it anymore. I had two times problems with e-SATA when my previous routers R7500 were bricked (not recoverable) and I had to replace them (guarantee). IMO these routers have some hardware problems with e-SATA. So I avoid use of e-SATA disks.
I did not quite understand your last question. You can use this firmware w/o installation of any additional packages, w/o Entware and/or Debian.
Voxel.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Enrique
Thx for a new build :)
You are welcome ;-)
Voxel.
Hello Enrique,
You can install and use official version of Entware-ng. But I strongly recommend to install and use my precompiled version of Entware-3x (i.e. for devices with version of kernel >= 3.x). It is compiled with optimal options for IPQ806x CPU and its FPU (official Entware uses generig “softfp” version).
Both: official and my version are compatible with R7800. And they should be installed on external USB drive, not to non-volatile memory of the R7800.
Squid is included into my version of Entware-3x too.
How to install: see my readme.docx
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/tyj61i5uc610w/voxel-firmware
Voxel.
My friend with a 7800 will be happy about that QOS integrated since he too is also suffering from Nat Type issues on Xbox One.
:)
Dear Voxel,
thanks a lot for your answer and advice, as I said I've some issue to use the USB port (WiFi drop frequently) that's way I bought a E-Sata box and pwered it.
But after a couple a day to use it I've some issue aslo with this port, so after your advise I definetly disconnet it.
Do you suggest to use a USB drive and powered it by the other port USB present in the router (I used a 2.5" hard disk) ? Is the power out of the router enough to supply the HDD ?
Thanks again in advance
Gianni
Dear Gianni,
Everybody decides himself, in general Netgear declares that eSATA should be OK for this device. But I had two cases using eSATA disks (R7500v1) and I do not want to risk anymore. Two different eSATA boxes, 3.5" and 2.5".
Currently I use 2.5" HDD: firs is connected with no any external power supply, second is connected to my second R7800 using USB hub with external power (it drives also WebCam and USB thermometer). Power of router is enough to drive 2.5'' HDD w/o any additional power.
Voxel.
Dear Voxel, thank you for wonder build, optimization and entware. I have been using your last few builds and they work awesome. I followed your readme and installed privoxy. Ran into an issue that privoxy works gr8 with http, but https ads are not blocked. with lot of ads now being served over https, i am now using DNSMASQ to block ads. followed the instructions on dd-wrt ad block site to setup script. could you help me with
1. For some reason crontab job i added to update the hosts does not seem to work. my script work fine if i run at command prompt and i do not get anymore ads on my network.
2. when i check the time on the router using date command, it shows me GMT. i did update the time zone using GUI to my location.
here are the steps i took
1. turn on telnet using 192.168.1.1/debug.htm
2. log into router using telnet and create a script; copy from dd-wrt site; i am not inventor of this :)
#!/bin/sh
logger WAN up script executing
if test -s /tmp/hosts0
then
rm /tmp/hosts0
fi
logger Downloading http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt
wget -O - http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt | grep 0.0.0.0 |
sed 's/[[:space:]]*#.*$//g;' |
grep -v localhost | tr ' ' '\t' |
tr -s '\t' | tr -d '\015' | sort -u >/tmp/hosts0
grep addn-hosts /tmp/dnsmasq.conf ||
echo "addn-hosts=/tmp/hosts0" >>/tmp/dnsmasq.conf
logger Restarting dnsmasq
killall dnsmasq
dnsmasq --conf-file=/tmp/dnsmasq.conf
3. add a crontab entry using crontab -e to run this script on a regular basis; say daily
Thanks
You can try just to use dnscrypt-proxy from firmware and to use Adguard DNS (see /usr/share/dnscrypt-proxy/dnscrypt-resolvers.csv ). Maybe it is enough for your needs.
I mean just to create the file /etc/dnscrypt.conf with two lines:
adguard-dns-ns1
adguard-dns-ns2
and reboot router after this.
Voxel.
Voxel,
for sure I'll decide which is the best :) !!!!
Anyway your support and advice are precious!!!!
Regards
Gianni
Thank you. Will try today and update. I did try the privoxy with adblock. Issue i ran into was with my ipad. On comp i was able to set http and https proxy with 8118 port and it worked.
is there any downside of using dns block vs privoxy?
thanks
No, no any problems in using privoxy. I use it myself when I need regular browsing.
Just dnscrypt-proxy with AdGuard DNS is simplest way. No needs in any additional packages installation. AFAIK all these DB of sites to block are using AdGuard DB.
Plus of provoxy is that it easely could be switched off in proxy settings ;-)
Voxel.
it worked with entware cron. thank you.
Hi. I've been testing Voxel firmware, but I wanted to test dd-wrt too.
The problem is when I turned back to stock firmware, wifi has stop working. I'd tried Voxel firmware, but no luck. In addition, with Voxel firm, rootfs are in read only mode and it's impossible execute setssh procedure, because it's not possible to create .ssh folder in root home.
If I reinstall dd-wrt, wifi functions properly so I think that it's a software problem or a corrupt nvram var.
Is there any procedure that allows the nvram to be completely reset?
Thanks!!!!!
Oh my god!!! That's the trick:
After returning from DD-WRT to stock firmware:
1) enable telnet: http://191.168.1.1/debug.htm
2) format overlay partition: mtd erase overlay_volume
3) hard reset
Seen in https://www.myopenrouter.com/comment/39648#comment-39648.
Thanks lobyte!!!
Voxel, just a curiosity, why do you use a web cam instead to use an IP cam ?
Webcam: you know, sometimes I do not reasonable purchase of hardware gadgets. One of such purchase was two my webcams. So: either I have to shelve them and admit that I was so stupid or to force them work such manner what is really useful for me ;-) I have to monitor my country house during my absence and I can use these webcams watching what is going there. Inside and outside. My WebCams provide very good quality of monitoring. I used this scheme long time ago, with my ASUS routers. Now they work with R7800. That’s all.
BTW, I was so stupid to buy my first two R7500v1 :-). And after some time I recognized that I have to start my custom builds or shelve them admiting that I was an idiot... I continued these builds with R7800.
Voxel.
I'm glad that you, according yourself, was stupid :D :D :D Becasue of that, we have custom rom :)
Voxel,
you are not stupid, but as me sometime we like to buy IT products without a precise reason !!!!
I've too a webcam not used, i try to use it as you.
I've another question for you and all the other expert in network; I checked regolary the log and there is a MAC address that try every day to hack my WiFi; I blocked this MAC address but i would like to know if I can discovered who is (the only thing I discovered is this a Samsung device) and if there are a system to send a clear message to him/she to not continue to try.
Any suggestion ?
gianni_1963:
IMO it just has no sense. Too much efforts to catch schoolboy’s age “cool hacker”. There are special programs and equipment to locate Wi-Fi client, e.g.
http://securitystartshere.org/page-training-oswa-assistant.htm#moocherhunter
but IMO has no sense. Many people do not set up their routers after purchase, leaving default ISP password, and someone after successful connection to such router of his neighbors can imagine that he can do everything. Just set up your Wi-Fi protected, leave his MAC address blocked and ignore him. It is IMO.
Voxel.
New version of my custom firmware build: 1.0.2.25SF.
Changes (vs 1.0.2.24SF):
1. sqlite3 package is upgraded 3130000->3160000.
2. libgcrypt package is upgraded 1.5.0->1.6.6.
3. libgpg-error package is upgraded 1.9->1.25.
4. sysstat package is upgraded 10.1.7->11.0.4.
5. lzo package is upgraded 2.09->2.10.
6. dbus package is upgraded 1.4.14->1.10.4.
7. libubox package is upgraded 2013-07-04->2016-02-26.
8. ubus package is upgraded 2013-01-13->2016-01-26.
9. libjson package is upgraded to libjson-c 0.9->0.12.1.
10. uci package is upgraded 2013-01-04->2016-02-02.
11. usbmode package moved to build tree.
12. dnscrypt-resolvers.csv is updated.
13. Host tools: four components are upgraded to most recent versions.
14. Toolchain: binutils is upgraded to version 2.28.
The link is:
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/tyj61i5uc610w/voxel-firmware
No reset is needed to upgrade from my previous versions.
(Thanks to vladlenas for additional testing).
Entware-3x:
vladlenas (again, thanks to him) kindly has provided the space on his own site for Entware users and script for installation of Entware-3x, optimized for IPQ8060x CPU. The link is:
http://ownweb.eu/Downloads/Entware/
The name of script for Entware-3x installation is “entware-setup.sh”.
Voxel.
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