TomatoUSB

Hi guys, I was wondering if somebody can help me, I am literally pulling my hair at this point. I am not able connect to the internet via the LAN or Wireless using Tomato.

Here is a recap of what I did:

I installed DD-WRT (dd-wrt.v24-15778_NEWD-2_K2.6 build) before I went for Tomato.

I had no problem flashing DD-WRT, and flashed Tomato through DD-WRT.

I can access the the Tomato panel at 192.168.1.1 and Tomato has the following settings:

The problem that I have is that none of my devices (laptops, cell phones) can't connect to the internet. My Vista laptop connects locally but it doesn't connect to the internet at any point.

I have reseted the router, wiped the NVRAM, reseted to original settings several times with no success.

My modem is a ZTE 831 that works on DHCP.

Is there any special setting that I am missing, I have tried to read the forums and inform myself before posting, but I have not been able to find any solutions.

Any help would be really appreciated at this point.

Thank you!

There seems to be several people on the same boat about this:

http://patricksheedy.net/blog/simple-tomato-firmware-install-on-asus-rt-n16-router/comment-page-1/#comment-418

Could it have to do with the firewall in Tomato?

Help please!

After erasing NVRAM, your router may not be able to receive the WAN IP address via DHCP. To solve the issue, go to "Administration -> Debugging" page, click on the "NVRAM commit" link, and reboot the router.

Thank you for the suggestion but it didn't work. Here is what I did step by step

I erased the NVRAM by holding the WPS button while plugging the router for the 30 seconds.

I had trouble connecting to the router (Vista was showing the limited connectivity icon) so I restarted my laptop and unplugged the modem.

After the restart I was able to access the router via 192… and did the NVRAM commit with no success. The LAN and the wireless were still not connecting.

Do you have any more ideas?

Thank you

Have you power-cycled (not just unplugged from the router) the cable modem after installing Tomato?
Have you tried to uncheck the "Reduce packet size" check-box on the "Advanced -> DHCP / DNS" page?
Does the "Status -> Overview" show the router "renewing…" the WAN IP, or did it obtain the IP successfully?

Thank you for the ideas, still no results. Here is what I did

- I turned off the modem for about 2 minutes and then turned it on again, I also turned off the router and turned roughly 1 min. after the modem. I was getting limited connectivity with Vista so I restarted my laptop. After the restart I was able to connect to Tomato via 192…. but I still did not have any internet connectivity.

- After the power cycle I unchecked the reduce packet size, still no results.

- The router had obtained the IP successfully, it is not renewing. Here is a cation of the Status Overview

Thank you for helping!

Your WAN and LAN subnet (192.168.1) can not be the same, reconfigure!

Your WAN ip address and gateway are on the same subnet as the router LAN namely 192.168.1.x which is a private network address, not an internet routable address. How on earth did DHCP give you that?

Don't worry about LAN and wireless clients until you get the router itself connected to the internet properly.

Via google I see that your ZTE 831 is an ADSL modem. What I found also said its default ip address is 192.168.1.1 which is the same address you configured for your router. Don't do that.

You said you flashed dd-wrt ok but did you ever connect to the internet successfully with dd-wrt? Or did you just immediately flash tomatousb from dd-wrt?

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Wow… Your factory modem LAN IP address are messed up.
It would be helpful to change your modem's DCHP address to start at (192.168.1.100) and end at (192.168.1.110). Keep the modems IP adress at (192.168.1.1).

Now you should change your routers IP address to (192.168.2.1).
With the router's DCHP server enabled with IP addresses starting with (192.168.2.100) and ending with (192.168.2.149).

Link to [url=http://ptcl.com.pk/uploads/ZTE_831%20Series.pdf]ZTE 831 manual[/url].

SOLVED, thank you guys, there was no way I could have figured that out by myself (yeah I am a noob but willing to learn)

@Karog, I have no clue why DHCP did that, thank for contributing to the solution.
@SFB, thank you buddy your post really helped me out