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Author: Stephen Partington
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: NetGear Routers
sadly my main router did not do so well with DDWRT. It actually has a
hardware offload for some of the firewall functions that actually dont have
drivers for DDWRT yet.

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 8:19 PM, Mark Phillips <>
wrote:

> I wish I had your router! ;)
>
> I would prefer dd-wrt over netgear firmware!
>
> Mark
>
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 7:57 PM, Stephen Partington <>
> wrote:
>
>> Ok. I feel silly. My netgear is the wndr3700
>>
>> On Oct 18, 2017 7:07 PM, "Mark Phillips" <>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> This is the latest info I found from Sept 16, 2016 -
>>>
>>> https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Netgear_WNDR3400
>>>
>>> Other links are older. However, ymmv as I did not probe that deeply into
>>> the dd-wrt web sites.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Stephen Partington <
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> It is weird. They support several of the erosion of the 3400 except 4
>>>> I think.
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 18, 2017 6:02 PM, "Mark Phillips" <>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I looked for a DD_WRT version for the WNDR3400v3 router, and I did not
>>>> find anything current. It seems the hardware is not supported yet?
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, I did find a way to backup the configuration of the router. I
>>>> performed the Netgear upgrade, and it seems to have saved all the
>>>> configuration settings, but I used the back up anyway and all seems to be
>>>> working!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Stephen Partington <
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have the same device and have installed DD-WRT on it right now.
>>>>>
>>>>> More to the point if you backup your settings in case of failure they
>>>>> should persist across updates.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 18, 2017 3:54 PM, "Mark Phillips" <>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I find I need to upgrade the firmware on my Netgear WNDR3400v3
>>>>> routers. I actually only use them as APs. Does anyone have experience with
>>>>> upgrading the firmware? Specifically, doe the routers retain all the
>>>>> settings, or are they set back to factory defaults? There is no way to
>>>>> download the settings that I can see, and the documentation says to write
>>>>> down all the settings before upgrading.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> Mark
>>>>>
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