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

Quote from ken.yong : Great deal! I got one and installed dd-wrt and very happy with it. Installed my USB printer and it's all good. One quick question though: Trying to set up a guest network with separate subnet's and ip's. Found many instructions so it's not a problem. However, the only trick is that I want to share my non-wireless USB printer (hence no ip address of its own) to the guest network as well and I can't seem to find any instructions on the web. Any suggestions?

Guest network on DD-WRT may not be on the same IP address to be secure.

Do you leave a PC on all the time? If you do what you may do is install Chrome Browser on both your PC you leave on all the time and the Guest PC. Setup Cloud Print and have it select to print to you Cloud Printer.

http://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/

Quote from yazyazoo : Guest network on DD-WRT may not be on the same IP address to be secure. Do you leave a PC on all the time? If you do what you may do is install Chrome Browser on both your PC you leave on all the time and the Guest PC. Setup Cloud Print and have it select to print to you Cloud Printer. http://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/

Thanks a lot!! That's a very good suggestion.

Ordered one to make my 2TB hard drive as network drive.

Since it has two USB ports, can I connect one to my 2TB hard drive and the second one to ROKU device...to access all content on my hard drive using ROKU “USB Player” App? Any thoughts?

I just need to dump movies using my laptop to hard drive (On Belkin router) and want ROKU to play movies….without switching the cables…..

Not sure if this works using a USB hub...I will try once I get it..but just need to know if it can solve my purpose.

If I use this router as an repeater, will I get 1 gigabit speed or half of it using the LAN ports? TIA

Followed dd-wrt link ("How to setup multiple BSSIDs using DD-WRT") to setup 2 BSSIDs. Can connect to both BSSIDs, however, the virtual interface can only be connected locally (i.e. no internet).

Any help is appreciated!

Happy camper here. Running Tomato and just plugged in my Rosewill 2 bay USB enclosure. Changed the network name in Tomato to match mine and both the drive show up. Streamed to my WDTV Live with no hiccups. Well worth the $20 just for this ability. Thanks to the OP and everyone with for the help setting this up. Becoming one of the better deals of the year.

Newbie to routers. I have a Samsung SmartTV that only accept wired connection. I also have mobile 4G hotspot. Can I buy this router to connect between my wireless 4G hotspot and my wired Samsung SmartTV? If so, how? Do I use DD-WRT? Need cheap stable solution. Will rep with my sincere thanks

Quote from DonV1962 : Happy camper here. Running Tomato and just plugged in my Rosewill 2 bay USB enclosure. Changed the network name in Tomato to match mine and both the drive show up. Streamed to my WDTV Live with no hiccups. Well worth the $20 just for this ability. Thanks to the OP and everyone with for the help setting this up. Becoming one of the better deals of the year.

What transfer speeds do you get to/from the USB enclosure thru the Belkin router? (e.g. copying one large file).

Quote from green_key : Newbie to routers. I have a Samsung SmartTV that only accept wired connection. I also have mobile 4G hotspot. Can I buy this router to connect between my wireless 4G hotspot and my wired Samsung SmartTV? If so, how? Do I use DD-WRT? Need cheap stable solution. Will rep with my sincere thanks

Short answer yes, long answer... maybe.

It -is- possible, but it depends on your device, and if you can find the appropriate modules needed for the belkin.

I've been using a clear ispot 4g modem as a backup connection for my home network. I have an ASUS rt-16 with dd-wrt running with this configuration. The device needs to support RNDIS for it to work, the ispot does, after you unlock it. Here is a thread I used when setting it up.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/view...hp?t=79336

HTH!

Quote from earlrod : If I use this router as an repeater, will I get 1 gigabit speed or half of it using the LAN ports? TIA

you wouldnt have to set it up as a repeatr but no you can even change the wan port to a lan port and itll be just like a switch just disable dhcp and firewall and your good to go

Quote : NOTE: If you have problems get CFE Web Browser to flash the firmware, you can also try flashing the ** MINI ** build through the Belkin routers firmware update page.. Understand that even though other users have performed the flash successfully, it is generally agreed upon that it is best to use CFE or TFTP to flash DD-WRT firmware onto this router.. Without saying, proceed at YOUR OWN RISK.

I thought the point of the special build for the Belkin F7D3301 was so that you could flash thru the Belkin router's firmware update page? And if you do CFE/TFTP, you can just go straight to the regular DD-WRT build?

Anyways, I updated thru Belkin router's firmware update page with mini Belkin build, no issues.

Does this support torrent downloading with Tomato?

I currently have 2 asus routers ddwrt wireless bridged together. One router (wirelrss g) is being used for its ports,and as a acess point. The other router (wireless n n12) is connected to my cable modem and has a NAS hooked up to it. Ddwrt is set in WDS MODE


As of now, the transfer rate between the g router ports (desktop computer) and the NAS is really slow. I think it is because the weakest point is the g router thats bridged.

Would this router in ddwrt mode speed things up? Would the two routers in "n" mode help?

Quote from earlrod : If I use this router as an repeater, will I get 1 gigabit speed or half of it using the LAN ports? TIA

If you connect this router to your main router through wired connection while connecting your computers to this router through wifi, you get gigabit LAN connection but the name here for the router is access point.

A repeater/extender connects to the main router through wifi and serves client (computers, mobile devices) through wifi as well, the wifi speed is halved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire...ion_system

Rule of thumb: if the device uses one network interface (ex. wlan0 ) for both data in and out communication, the speed is halved. On a router the wireless controller and the wired controller are two difference network interfaces.