TomatoUSB

Hi,

My E3000 has arrived, and wondering:

1. What is the safest procedure for the 1st flash - can I do it direct from the Linksys firmware, or what? Any quirks I need to know?

2. Any recommendations for best build with VPN - Teddybear, Victek, Toastman? It would seem the "latest" options are:

Teddybear: tomato-E3000USB-1.28.9054MIPSR2-beta-vpn3.6.rar
Victek: Tomato_RAF-K26-1.28.8672_MIPSR2_E3000_VPN.zip
Toastman: tomato-E3000USB-1.28.7440MIPSR2-Toastman-OriginalClassNames-VPN.bin

The Victek build incorporates the nice Wes Campaigne per-connection-transfer-rates additions.
Toastman - Is your build based on Victek's or Teddybear's?

Also, I don't care about IPv6.

I'm familiar with RAF1.28.8623 MIPSR1_RAF K26 USB VPN on my WL-500GPv2, but need to be careful not to brick this new router.

Thanks,
Ben

Hi m8
1. direct from linksys FW-youse teddybear 54
it works well. I have e3000 to

2 VPN = PPTP are OpenVPN???
Client are Server????

Thanks, so there is nothing special to do on 1st flash for E3000? I kept reading about 30-30-30 resets somewhere, but didn't really understand what that was about.

Re: VPN, I mean the OpenVPN Server & Client that is present on all the "VPN" builds…

Just flashed it direct from Linksys GUI to Victek's Tomato_RAF-K26-1.28.8672_MIPSR2_E3000_VPN.zip
All went very easy, made sure to erase NVRAM after flashing.
Getting about 9MB/Sec upload and 11MB/sec download on 5Ghz/40Mhz WiFi (to LAN clients that is) which I am pretty happy with.
Haven't done any WiFi tweaking yet.

You shouldn't find too many operational differences between these versions, all of them are based on Teddy Bear's code.

Yes, you're right… just some small differences, overrall I like Victek's stuff, and also what you've been doing.
Overrall the E3000/Tomato combo is really nice.
Feels much faster than my WL-500GPv2 (I only have 4mb/1mb adsl so this surprised me, it wasn't like the CPU on the Asus was being taxed much).
I remember some posts here about selection of 5Ghz channel frequency and optimum wireless settings generally, but can't find them now, any idea where they were?
Also, does anyone have any idea about display of CPU frequency, and Jumbo Frames… I've made two posts on the linksys forum:
http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showthread.php?t=65813
http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showthread.php?t=65765

Re/E3000 can anybody point me to a step-by-step guide for flashing?

I keep seeing refs to "30-30-30" reset and erasing NVRAM.

Also, may I assume that once Tomato is installed, that the "Guest" login feature will go away?

occams - The setting you mention is maybe due to a "default" setting in the selection box, which maybe shouldn't be there. Some people say that after you've selected and saved a new frequency, it still reads wrongly. I can't confirm that because on my stuff it displays OK as far as I can see, the same as the overview frequency. As far as jumbo frames goes, I've never tried to use them, but I seem to remember some posts where there was some doubt as to whether the driver actually supports them. Teddy Bear may have the answer to that.

Yes, the problem is that the WL500gP v2 (not the v1) has a pretty (let's chose the word carefully) "cheap" SOC chipset and it is sluggish - this was first commented on by oleg. Even compared to the supposed "slower" WRT54GL at 200MHz the web GUI was slow to respond. Nevertheless it was a good workhorse due to the bigger RAM.

@Occamsrazor:

Jumbo Frames can make local network packet sizes increase, and after reading that some people have used small programs like TCPDump and so forth, that it really makes your router work different than stock firmware. I have an E3000 and RT-N16, which it is to my understanding are both compatible with that setting. You should not exceed 9000 (which is 9kb packets). I am using this firmware from Shibby (a.k.a. Shibby20 in forums):

tomato.groov.pl/K26/build5x-083V/tomato-E3000USB-NVRAM60K-1.28.RT5x-MIPSR2-083V-VPN.bin

Although, this one has Transmission (torrent program) built into the GUI for easy torrent downloading to a hard drive:

tomato.groov.pl/K26/build5x-083V/tomato-E3000USB-NVRAM60K-1.28.RT5x-MIPSR2-083V-BT-VPN.bin

I just use a smaller build on the E3000 for wireless (dual-band) and then use the RT-N16 for all the heavy loads with it's 128MB of RAM memory…

30/30/30 resetting is an older method that entails you hold the reset on the router while it is ON for 30 seconds, you leave the reset button pushed even without the power cable for another 30 (all in this order), then you plug it back into power while still leaving the reset button pushed for yet another, third and final, 30 seconds. So basically you hold your reset button for 90 seconds total in power-cycling intervals to clear the NVRAM on just about any router.

BTW, I am not seeing the Guest login feature or any extra SSID features, which I may not ever need since I am not running a business at home or anything.

Good Luck with your E3000,

Jonathan