TomatoUSB

Hi All,

I bought an Asus RT-N16 after a friend told me that this router could use my 3G usb modems and distribute around the house.

I somewhat took him at his word and went and bought the router.

Now that it's arrived today, I'm hunting around and am not readily seeing info that this actually works.

I have searched for the past 2 hours online to see all the comments about this - seems some Russian dude got something working, but perhaps not with the N16.

Can someone help me out here please?

Cheers,

AudioTomato

Shibby's builds support 3G modems.

Original builds support 3G modems.

can you tell how ?

Flash the latest Asus firmware from their website. In the new GUI you'll find the 3G/WiMax menu to configure your usb stick as back-up for the WAN connection.

If you don't have a proper WAN connection active, the router will switch to 3G and run like this as long as you like.

Hey Guys !

Back working on this again !

So, the Asus build is a wierd one. Have the modem plugged in and "connnected" - get's an IP from Vodafone, but it "fails to get a gateway" and implements the default as "10.64.64.64".

We can ssh out of the thing, that's fine.
Telnet in, and you can get out of the thing.

So, it is connected.

However, no http traffic is allowed out, and the router is throwing back an ip of 10.0.0.1 for every attempt at connection.

So, just installed Tomato 2.6 VPN version.

This does not obviously see to do it either.

Going to investigate Shibby's builds again now, and get RosettaStone Russian edition out to help with that….lol ;-)

If anyone has anything else on this - now's the time ;p

Will check back in a little while to see if any of you guys have made it back in here in the meantime and made some sense of this all.

Audiotomato.

Sorted ;-)

Shibby : tomato-K26USB-1.28.RT5x-MIPSR2-083V-VPN.trx

In saying that, the Huwaie modem that had been detected by the quality Asus firmware, didn't actually work with Shibby - Shibby would only work with the newest of the 3 modems I have - the K4511.

Happy days !!!!!

Audiotomato.

82772

I have an Asus RT-N16 with which I want to use a Huawei E1552 3G USB modem. Is there a tomato firmware version that supports this combo?

I know that dd-wrt supports this combo but I would rather run Tomato if I can.