[satandole666]

I've installed DD-WRT on a WRT54G router before without a hiccup. But I can't get it to work on this router for the life of me. I'm having reception issues in some parts of my house and I'd like to use the feature that increases the signal strength to fix that problem.

I have a WRT54G v8. I've confirmed it dozens of times. I've done all of my homework.

I used the install guide found here:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php..._v8.0_%26_v8.2

I followed the directions to a tee. First thing I did was shut down all wireless based devices in my house and disabled the wireless on the laptop I was going to use for the upgrade.

I disabled Compound TCP and Windows Firewall.

I did the power toggling and 30/30/30 reset.

I set the Addresses to the proper addresses.

I let the vxworkskiller run for almost 4 minutes. I never got a dialogue asking me to power off the router so I did it anyway.

The ping post vxworkskiller reveals my router is connected.

When I go to run tftp.exe to flash the DD-WRT firmware to the router I was getting an incorrect password error. According to the directions I am supposed to leave the password blank, which I did. When I tried using the admin's password to the router it got further but still didn't work.

So out of curiosity I connected to 192.168.1.1 and the old firmware screen popped up.

Not quite sure what went wrong here but I'm a little wary of bricking this router so I gave up for the time being. Everything works perfectly still so I figured I would leave it be for now and get some opinions. I'm thinking the vxworkskiller step didn't go properly but I'm not sure.

Any help is welcome.

[kayson]

I don't know why the instructions are so complicated. Maybe the v8 firmware is crazy but for my two successful dd-wrt installs all I did was a power cycle then use the linksys firmware upgrade with a dd-wrt mini file and it worked perfectly fine.

[satandole666]

I got ballsy and tried it again. This time it worked.



Since the original question is kind of pointless, is there an application (for Win7) that can tell you the numerical strength of your wireless connection? I'd like to see if the changes make any difference.

[kayson]

I found this quick and dirty script-

http://www.wirelessforums.org/alt-in...ngth-4296.html

Not sure if it's what you're looking for. But since it's a WMI reading there could be a program out there...