Belkin Sharemax N300 300Mbps 802.11n 4-Port Gigabit Wireless Router w/ 2 USB Ports, DD-WRT, Tomato - $22 Shipped UPDATED

Last Result:
Download Speed: 119400 kbps (14925 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 74317 kbps (9289.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 7 ms
Sat Apr 07 2012 12:50:54 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)

Eat my dust.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1881238551.png [speedtest.net]

Just loaded the latest Toastman Tomato firmware. Here's the process I followed (merged some of the Amazon review tutorial with some other info I found on the net). I'm going off of memory here, so if someone wants to replicate this and add to the wiki be my guest.


1) Go here: http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/suppor...vn15396%2F

Download: dd-wrt.v24-15396_NEWD-2_K2.6_mini_f7d3301.bin

2) Go here: http://www.linksysinfo.org/index....6-7.36106/

Use the Mediafire link in the second post and download the build of your choice (I used the EXT version that has USB and NTFS support):
tomato-K26USB-1.28.7497.1MIPSR2-Toastman-RT-Ext.trx

Keep the reset button pressed in for the next three steps:
3) While the unit is powered on Press the reset button for 30 secs
4) Keeping the reset button pressed, unplug the power (do not let up on the reset button)
5) Plug the power back in and wait for another 30 secs
6) You can now let up on the reset button

Once the router is in this mode you will have access to a special "CFE menu".

7) Plug your desktop/laptop into port 1,2,3, or 4 and set your IP Address to 192.168.2.8 with a gateway of 192.168.2.1
8) Point your IE browser (Do not use Firefox) to 192.168.2.1 and CFE menu will be available.
9) Load the bin file you downloaded in step 1

10) It will take about 5 minutes to load dd-wrt. After 5 minutes I opened a new tab and was able to connect to 192.168.1.1. (I think I had to reset my ip address back to dhcp in order to connect).

11) When logging into the ww-drt interface for the first time it prompts you for a password, I cleared the password just to be safe.

12) Navigate to the firmware upload screen and then load the trx file from step 2. I selected the option to reset the settings after flash.

13) I've seen mention of doing another 30/30/30 reset at this point but I skipped this as I think the reset settings option during the flash does the same thing.

Now to play around with the QOS settings. Any ideas on optimal settings for VOIP and NNTP?

Very nice indeed sir. Fiber connection?

Is the power brick on the unit large or just the size of one outlet?

I have this Belkin router connected to a lan port on my Netgear 3500L. I could get to the internet with the mega DD-WRT build, but with the tomato tomato-K26USB-1.28.7497.1MIPSR2-Toastman-RT-Ext.trx build I cannot get to the internet. Is it the DHCP enable that is not set on with tomato firmware that is different than the dd-wrt megabuild setting that is causing this? I know I can attach the Belkin directly to my cable-modem, but I would like to test it out for a while before I go live with Tomato.