I have been having issues with my home WAP. It’s been dropping connections and I decided it needed an RMA. In the mean time, I wanted something to hold me over, so I decided to purchase a refurbished Netgear WNR834B that Newegg had on sale ($23 Shipped!). In fact, I ordered two: one for our household and one for my sister, who is moving to Tennessee.
After some initial research, I found out that I could slap on DD-WRT; I wasn’t going to be caught dead with this crappy stock firmware.
Reading the post on the DD-WRT forum it seemed it’d be a little complicated to get it on there, but since these were crappy $23 refurbished WAPs I just got in the mail, I decided I would just try to slap the firmware right on there!
I just took a shot and uploaded the firmware to the stock netgear firmware page … and it worked!
Here’s the firmware I used: http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/downloads/others/eko/V24_TNG/svn12424/dd-wrt.v24-12424_NEWD_mini_wnr834bv2.chk
My next goal is to perform a hardware mod to rip out the internal antennas (yes there are physical antennas hidden in that chassis) and replace them with some 12dBi badboys on eBay. That should come soon!
Happy WAPing.