As the world of wireless routers continues to expand and grow, as well as the amount of connected devices in the home, open source firmware represents an excellent way to "expand" the capabilities of your powerful, high end NETGEAR router.
A variety of NETGEAR routers, including the R6300, R6300v2, R7000, R8000, R9000, and more, support the ability for users to customize them with third party firmware. These firmwares, such as DD-WRT, Tomato, and OpenWRT, act as a replacement for the stock firmware provided by NETGEAR.
Flashing your NETGEAR open source router with third party firmware can unlock a wealth of options from fine-tuning and tweaking options, to built-in VPN support, detailed access control abilities and more. Everyone can benefit, from networking experts to newbies.
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Clarification Needed on Upgrading R6300v2CH firmware
Apr 18 2023 - 9:52pm
Hello everyone-
I am working on an old R6300v2CH. I have successfully flashed the unit with a Kong mod of dd-wrt v24-sp2 (08/15/14) build 24865M. The unit seems to be working well....
Recommendaions for the C6300
Apr 17 2023 - 10:31am
I just referrred a close friend to the C6300/AC1750. He is not a gamer and simply wants reliable LAN/Wifi. WiFi 5 should meet all his needs but I had no reason to refer him to the R7800/Nighthawk X4S...
Is it possible to convert wrn3500L V1 Samknows router to a "normal" router?
Mar 15 2023 - 9:58pm
my Samknows wrn3500L is kind of stucked with Netgear firmware for Samknows.
After it was retired, I flashed it to the original dd-wrt version and did not use it that much.
After a few...
R7000 to stock then Tomato (Gigabit fibre hardcap)
Mar 4 2023 - 9:14pm
Hello,
I recently signed up to a gigabit connection and had my premises upgraded to fibre connection.
I am currently running DD-WRT v3.0-r43845 std (07/18/20) on my Netgear R7000...
NETGEAR RAXE500 Nighthawk AXE11000 DD-WRT firmware?
Mar 3 2023 - 11:07am
Any notion when a stable release firmware for the NETGEAR RAXE500 Nighthawk AXE11000 be ready? Can't wait. Still using OEM stuff, can't do a lot of good stuff with OEM stuff. Anyway, was...
RAX54
Jan 4 2023 - 8:00am
Hello, I'd like to use OpenVPN with my Nighthawk RAX54. Is there a opensource firmware for this router? Or is ist still possible to use OpenVPN with its firmware somehow? Thank you.
Cem...
Internet access issue on hardwired connections only
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Love this router which I purchased in 2018, Working great until this morning. WiFi connections still work as expected, but all wired ethernet no longer work. I did a factory...
DD-WRT to Factory .bin
Oct 24 2022 - 10:03am
I would like to give Voxel Firmware a try but I'm running DD-WRT. Does anyone have a copy of DD-WRT-to-Netgear Factory file they could share? I've looked everywhere, most link...