Beat the bell & rogers throttle....all things mlppp!

[infamouskid]

I've been put on fastpath now and my ping went down to 35ms

I noticed I've been throttled after 6pm so I bought an Asus WL-520GU router and just flashed it with Tomato firmware.

BT speeds so far are have not exceeded 28 kb/sec. Did I do something wrong?

make sure your using tomato MLPPP firmware and not regular tomato.

[murdoc2k]

make sure your using tomato MLPPP firmware and not regular tomato.

hmm.. but I'm not on MLPPP though.. does it matter?

[infamouskid]

hmm.. but I'm not on MLPPP though.. does it matter?

uhh yes...mlppp is the only way to get around the throttle. did you read anything in the first thread at all??

[murdoc2k]

make sure your using tomato MLPPP firmware and not regular tomato.

Alright I made a big boo boo I need some help

I got all excited when first flashed to Tomato (non-MLPPP) firmware and so I thought it was going to be an easy process to go from Tomato -> Tomato MLPPP so I went to the upgrade page and immediately applied the MLPPP firmware.

The router restarted and now I can't even acess the router via 192.168.1.1 anymore. Is there anything I can do or am I screwed? I tried powering it off for 10 seconds and then repowering it and pressing the rest button but still no go.

[nx6288]

are you connected to the router? make sure you're connected by wire and not wirelessly

[murdoc2k]

are you connected to the router? make sure you're connected by wire and not wirelessly

yes. The problem is that I suspect my router is bricked due to improper flashing. I forgot to clear out the settings and ram before doing it

[nx6288]

how long did you hold the reset button for?
try 10+ seconds.

[murdoc2k]

how long did you hold the reset button for?
try 10+ seconds.

Just tried it. Held reset button for 20 seconds and also left my router unplugged for about an hour or so before re-trying. Nothing has changed.

[LeeBear]

Alright I made a big boo boo I need some help

I got all excited when first flashed to Tomato (non-MLPPP) firmware and so I thought it was going to be an easy process to go from Tomato -> Tomato MLPPP so I went to the upgrade page and immediately applied the MLPPP firmware.

The router restarted and now I can't even acess the router via 192.168.1.1 anymore. Is there anything I can do or am I screwed? I tried powering it off for 10 seconds and then repowering it and pressing the rest button but still no go.

Check your IP settings on your computer and make sure its in the same IP range as the router. Often time Windows defaults to a 169.XXX.XXX.XXX IP when there's no DHCP server active. You might have to manually set the IP and subnet so its in the same range as the router. ie. 192.168.1.101 etc.

-LeeBear

[hi-tech]

Its sickening that Bell makes Canadians jumps through all these hoops just to get decent speeds that we pay for...

[infamouskid]

set everything dhcp. turn on router while connected to your computer.

go to command prompt and type inconfig /all

check default gateway. that will be your router ip.

if that does not work there is a tftp program on the net somewhere where you can force the firmware in. other then that i would reccomend posting in the teksavvy forum at dslreports.com under the canadian isp forums.

guspaz and bichapale are pretty good guys to ask.

[murdoc2k]

set everything dhcp. turn on router while connected to your computer.

go to command prompt and type inconfig /all

check default gateway. that will be your router ip.

if that does not work there is a tftp program on the net somewhere where you can force the firmware in. other then that i would reccomend posting in the teksavvy forum at dslreports.com under the canadian isp forums.

guspaz and bichapale are pretty good guys to ask.

I don't think tftp would work considering my default gateway is 0.0.0.0 (I've actually tried that ip to see if I could connect and no positive results have shown)

Check your IP settings on your computer and make sure its in the same IP range as the router. Often time Windows defaults to a 169.XXX.XXX.XXX IP when there's no DHCP server active. You might have to manually set the IP and subnet so its in the same range as the router. ie. 192.168.1.101 etc.

-LeeBear

Checked.

Default gateway shows 0.0.0.0

essentially there's no router detected and there's no ip assigned. My only conclusion so far is that I've bricked it

[LeeBear]

I don't think tftp would work considering my default gateway is 0.0.0.0 (I've actually tried that ip to see if I could connect and no positive results have shown)



Checked.

Default gateway shows 0.0.0.0

essentially there's no router detected and there's no ip assigned. My only conclusion so far is that I've bricked it

That's why you have to manually input the IP address for your network card. In Windows set your IP address to 192.168.1.110 gateway to 192.168.1.1 subnet 255.255.255.0 and then see if you can connect to the router. From my experience with the Asus routers they are pretty hard to brick, but often times you lose DHCP during the flashing procedure.

-LeeBear

[murdoc2k]

That's why you have to manually input the IP address for your network card. In Windows set your IP address to 192.168.1.110 gateway to 192.168.1.1 subnet 255.255.255.0 and then see if you can connect to the router. From my experience with the Asus routers they are pretty hard to brick, but often times you lose DHCP during the flashing procedure.

-LeeBear

ok I do see your point. I've done "ipconfig /all" in cmd prompt and it did show that DHCP server has been shut off. I'm however unable to get back simply by entering the info that you've suggested. If only I can somehow re-enable the DHCP...

[infamouskid]

ok I do see your point. I've done "ipconfig /all" in cmd prompt and it did show that DHCP server has been shut off. I'm however unable to get back simply by entering the info that you've suggested. If only I can somehow re-enable the DHCP...

looks like your gonna have to jtag that sucker back to life. or rma it.