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Re: WRTP54G with 5.01.04 firmware After deciding to go back to the previous firmware I had (1.00.62) because of issues with v5.01.04, I decided to check back here and see your posts.
To be honest, I only start messing around with this stuff a couple days ago, and am kind of learning on the fly. The only difference I see between what you're doing and what I did is that you are attempting to flash from the version 3 firmware, whereas I flashed directly from the latest Vonage 1.00.62 to version 5.01.04. If you use CYT on that version, you can easily flash to the version 5 found on the wiki. Interesting to note, I almost bricked my router by trying to update to the 3.24 (?) version that is up there.
Now onto the reason I went back. Stability. I use another PC in my house pretty regularly through RDC and found the performance to be mediocre at best with the 5 firmware loaded on the router. It would periodically hang up for a few seconds while typing or clicking which was getting pretty annoying. So I dealt with that all day, and then the internet went down...or so I thought. After connecting to my neighbors unlocked wireless (same cable provider, different brand router altogether), and saw I was able to surf, I knew something was up with the router. Did a factory reset and allowed the router to download the 1.00.62 firmware and all is peaches. RDC performance is improved as well.
So I don't know what I am going to do. This version was stable for the entire year I have had this router from Vonage. I no longer need the Vonage service, nor do I need the ports, so I may just CYT again and remove the provisioning link. Or maybe try v3? Who knows... | |
maziloFrom MaziloPremium
join:2002-05-30
Lilburn, GA
kudos:1 | said by phishstics :
The only difference I see between what you're doing and what I did is that you are attempting to flash from the version 3 firmware, whereas I flashed directly from the latest Vonage 1.00.62 to version 5.01.04. If you use CYT on that version, you can easily flash to the version 5 found on the wiki. Interesting to note, I almost bricked my router by trying to update to the 3.24 (?) version that is up there. I tried to flash v5 firmware on my WRTP54G-ER that ran on v1.00.62 Vonage firmware and got the error message of Unable to write to MTD block device. I flashed back my WRTP54G-ER to v3.1.24 firmware and tried again to flash with v5 firmware to get the same error message. | |
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