Kong Mod Update build 17865: Update 11/13/11

Hi, I've got a fresh WNR3500L (Model: WNR3500U/WNR3500L) and I'm trying to get kong-mod running since i would like to have the DLNA and network my USB-HDD with the rest of my machines.

I'm aware that I need a .chk file to do the initial flash and I've downloaded the dd-wrt.v24-15396_NEWD-2_K2.6_mini-WNR3500L.chk. My question is if it is safe to flash the bin file kong-mod based on dd-wrt 17865 or do i need to find a original dd-wrt 17865 bin file.
I'm also sitting behind a Dsl/router which is hooked up to the WNR3500L (Big house with thick walls, long cable) so the router at 192.168.1.1 is the Dsl router and my Netgear is currently at 10.0.0.1

Will this cause any problems during the flashing or is the guide at http://www.myopenrouter.com/article/18919/Upgrading-to-DD-WRT-on-NETGEAR... still vaild if i just swap the ip-adress

I am installing on an ASUS RTN16- Which version should i be using to make sure wireless signal is not dropping over time?

ASUS-RTN16-kingkong.bin

or

ASUS-RTN16-kingkong-newd.bin

Thank you

ASUS-RTN16-kingkong.bin

@wabe, re Cron, I installed OTRW and I worked around this by adding a script to stop and start cron in /opt/etc/init.d. The idea is to have the restart process at as near the end of the startup process as possible.

My script is called S98cron with the following content. Make sure that you turn on the executable flag. Hope this helps.

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#!/opt/bin/bash
stopservice cron
startservice cron

Disregard

I'm using DD-WRT v24-sp2 (11/13/11) vpnkong - build 17865M on a E3000 router. It's used as a wired Gateway router (wireless and USB are disabled). I do have Privoxy enabled with Transparent and Default Configuration.

I have a 40Mbps connection and when I use speedtest from my IPS my speedtests are only 22Mbps when Privoxy is enabled. When I disable Privoxy my speed tests jump to 37-39Mbps.

Any ideals on the speed decrease?

TIA!

@Kong

Have you looked into google code?

Kong said: Little update. I've build around 170 optware packages with the current dd-wrt toolchain now + integrated opkg which works way better then ipkg. But I haven't decided yet if I should open this up for the public. Installing packages from repositories is a serious thing and I don't have the possibility to put this up on a secure server.

I might be able to help depending on what you want to put up, what kind of tracking you may want and how automated you want it to be.

Shoot me a PM if you want to discuss.

Kong said:

mac913 said: I'm using DD-WRT v24-sp2 (11/13/11) vpnkong - build 17865M on a E3000 router. It's used as a wired Gateway router (wireless and USB are disabled). I do have Privoxy enabled with Transparent and Default Configuration. I have a 40Mbps connection and when I use speedtest from my IPS my speedtests are only 22Mbps when Privoxy is enabled. When I disable Privoxy my speed tests jump to 37-39Mbps. Any ideals on the speed decrease? TIA!

Speedtest are a problem for filtering proxies, thus I'm not surprised. I have done any speedtesting with privoxy, and if some tuning would make it faster. I only have a 16MBit connection. In general qos as well as access restrictions in dd-wrt will decrease your possible speed by about 50%

I do use QOS since I have steaming devices on the network. As a test I did disable QOS with Privoxy enabled and speedtest reported 28Mbps. Having QOS enabled and Privoxy disabled, speedtest reports 40Mbps. 

Since I'm using the Privoxy's default configuration is there any settings I can add to the firewall that would allow full speed without loosing Privoxy's filtering?

I did run top during the speedtest and cpu hits 100% usage. Why are there 3 instances of privoxy.conf?

I also overclocked the E3000 to 500Mhz and speedtest reported 24Mbps. WOW do I need a 833Mhz SoC to get 40Mbps with Privoxy?

I guess Privoxy scans only http, but isn't most downloading from a http site, downloading using http? Does Privoxy effect/alter http downloads? If this is the case I may go back to the Ad-Blocking Script and Disable Privoxy.

Kong said: The only option that could make a difference is buffer-limit. I guess the amount of rules also influences performance. I use privoxys default rules + a handful to block facebook ilike tracking on 3rd party sites.

After going back to frater's Ad-Blocking Script, Privoxy is much getter at filtering and I going to use Privoxy and I hope the downloads and/or software updates will not be effected. Thanks for the addition!!!

The E3000 shows that I have over 35MB free memory if there's a special build or script to increase the buffer, I'll give it a shot.

@Kong:

A couple of questions regarding your HIGHLY anticipated build :).

1. Opkg enhancement: Will this affect our OTRW installations? as of now, I use ipkg-opt to install, update or upgrade current packages. Are the opkg repositories the same ones used by ipkg-opt?

2. Can you confirm that you are reverting back to the prior uclib version? My current OTRW lighttpd blows up because of the new uclib you had introduced on the current build.

3. Will this new build address the issue with if.h causing the output from 'netstat -i' to blow up?

@Kong:

Thanks for the quick response. I guess I was distracted, because I could have sworn I had your latest update, but just saw that I used an update dated 11/11/11.

I am downloading the 'old-driver' version and to see if I can get my lighttpd/vlighttpd up and running.