Turn on LED's for Internet (WAN)
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesHi, I have been having a lot of internet drops, and I can't tell by the router asd the light is out by default on Fresh Tomato. Could someone please tell me how...
View ArticleR8000 serial recovery - CFE corrupt?
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesHello all, I've tried to initiate a serial recovery (not my first rodeo), but I have never seen this type of output; I'm not enthusiastic about the...
View ArticleCannot connect to Netgear R8000 after reverting back to stock
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesI had previously installed dd-wrt (think it was K3_R8000_1-Jul-2015.chk) on my Netgear R8000 with no issues but wanted to revert back to the latest netgear...
View ArticleCurrent status of R8000 stock and custom firmwares
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesHi,I would like to know what's the current status of the available firmwares for R8000 regarding stability, known issues, security issues and...
View ArticleHey Kong can you look into the Firmware Compatibilty errors for the R8000...
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesHey Kong hoping to get your attention with this post. Looks like there is a almost universal problem flashing DD-WRT initial builds to the R8000's that were...
View ArticleR8000 jtag location on PCB
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesHi folks,my R8000 is bricked because of an faulty CFE (Bootloader). I can read the following output on the routers serial port:Digital core power voltage set to...
View Article5ghz config question
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesHi all after a little advice if anyone can help. Only recently I learned how important it was too ensure you set "valid channels" specifically on my R7800 5ghz...
View ArticleUsing Public IP Range
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesHi,I am a UK Virgin Media Cable customer.In process of switching from residential to Business.I will have a range of 13 public IP addresses.The router they will...
View ArticleR8000 Issues routing traffic to Internet after power loss
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesI have a Netgear R8000 device that will not pass traffic to the WAN Port. I can connect Via WiFi and to the Admin section. I am thinking that the Bootloader...
View ArticleDual SSID Network Isolation (Guest or similar SSID), issues!
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesHi All,I am running Kong's latest and greatest "DD-WRT v3.0-r40270M kongac (07/11/19)"The short story is I have a couple of IoT devices, and I want them to live...
View ArticleNewbie R8000 set up question for DDWRT
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesHi all,I'm looking to install DDWRT on my Netgear R8000.... Before I begin I must stress that I am greener than green to this whole installing the DDWRT thing...
View ArticleFirmware recommendations
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesHi guys,I have a netgear r8000, can anyone recommend the best firmware for this model, I am currently on latest stock but have been looking at dd-wrt and...
View ArticleURGENT HELP NIGHTHAWK X6 R8000
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesDear All, i am not able to setup my NIGHTHAWK X6 R8000. I did the following steps:- went through the we "netgearlogin.com" but it doens't work"- downloaded...
View ArticleCannot Unbrick NETGEAR X6 R8000 Router
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesDear all,I uploaded (through Tomato) a corrupted firmware and my router is now bricked.I tried to do forced reset but no luck; I tried to upload the latest...
View Articlerouter stopped working because of IP address
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesI was doing some work in my desktop. I got my internet connection from my Linksys router. At the time of working, my internet connection became stopped. When i...
View ArticleR8000 function at Gigabit fibre speed
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesHi Team I've tried everythign i know to try and get this R8000 running the latest dd-wrt to function at my 900Mbps Down and 400Mbps but the maximum i seem to...
View ArticleR8000 advances tomato WDS help
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesHi guys sorry if this has been asked already but I'm new to all this. i need help setting up a r8000 currently running advanced tomato firmware and making it a...
View ArticleBricked R8000 need JTAG pinouts
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesMy router CFE was over written. I have searched for the last two weeks for pinout JTAG on this router. I have a back up of the boot mtd0 to reflash. The tftp...
View ArticleInitial flash on R8000
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesWhere is the inital flash file for going from stock firmware to DD-WRT? I gather Kong files just go by the date rather than a version number. Thanks much.
View ArticleR8000 lost MAC
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesSo a little background.. I have been using Tomato firmware on my R8000 pretty much since I got it, but recently i would have weird issues with 2.4Ghz network...
View ArticleR8000 file site seems to be down, where can i find them?
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesHi all, i have DDWRT installed in my r8000 but wanted to try out the KONG version to see if it could improve my wifi speeds. Unfortuately for me, the stock...
View ArticleChip u204 on PCB
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesHi Guys I would like to ask what is this pcb chip U204 CHT in Netgear R8000? My girlfriend watered the flowers and router, now I have a short circuit on U204
View ArticleR8000 flashed with R7000 firmware
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesHello All,I have flashed the R8000 with R7000 firmware. I can login via 192.168.1.1 to the router's home screen (r7000) however every attempt at flashing a...
View ArticleCannot Get in the R8000 after Shibby Initial Upload
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesHi Guys,I flashed Shibby "tomato-R8000-1.28.ARM--134-initial-64K.ch" on the R8000 but i cannot get in after all the combination of the passwords. No luck after...
View ArticleBricked r8000 no IP address
Forums: R8000 Questions, Tips, and GuidesI downloaded the initial firmware And uploaded it now it seems the router is bricked cannot be used cannot even log into it as it does not show up as an IP...
View Article