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** '''Password:''' Whatever your password was ** '''Password:''' Whatever your password was
** Hard reset the router if you cannot figure out the login information. [[Linksys WRT300N#General Information|Refer here]] for the default login information. ** Hard reset the router if you cannot figure out the login information. [[Linksys WRT300N#General Information|Refer here]] for the default login information.
 +* Occasionally after changing a setting, the router will lose its connection to the internet. All you need to do to restore the connection is navigate to the Administration page and scroll to the bottom and hit the '''Reboot Router''' button.
 +** I recommend that you change all the settings you want to change then reboot the router regardless.

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Contents

General Information

Linksys WRT300N Version 1

  • Hardware Defaults (with Linksys firmware)
    • LAN IP Address: 192.168.1.1
    • Web GUI Username: <blank>
    • Web GUI Password: admin
  • DD-WRT Defaults (dd-wrt.v24 beta)
    • LAN IP Address: 192.168.1.1
    • Web GUI Username: root
    • Web GUI Password: admin

Installation Procedure

As of now (June, 2007), the only supported version of DD-WRT is beta version 24.

  • 1. Download DD-WRT beta version 24
    • A. Navigate to the DD-WRT Downloads Page -> Beta -> Generic Broadcom -> dd-wrt.v24 beta
    • B. Scroll down to find the latest version (Tested with: 2007 - 0530 from May 30th, 2007)
    • C. Download: dd-wrt.v24_wrt300n.bin
    • D. Keep the downloads page open as you may or may not need it.
  • 2. Open up Internet Explorer (Firefox 2.0.0.4 did not work for me, unfortunately)
    • A. Navigate to your router's web GUI (default location: http://192.168.1.1)
    • B. Write down/Copy+Paste any settings you may want to keep (e.g. MAC addresses for MAC filtering)
    • C. Reset the router to its factory defaults
    • D. Navigate to Firmware Upgrade and select dd-wrt.v24_wrt300n.bin in the file browser
    • E. Initiate the upgrade
  • 3. If you have any issues with the firmware upgrade failing:
    • A. Download the mini version of DD-WRT beta version 24 (Repeat step one above and download dd-wrt.v24_mini_wrt300n.bin instead).
    • B. Repeat step 2 for installing the mini version.
    • C. Upgrade to the full version (if you wish)

Post-Installation

Once you have the firmware upgraded, your router is already set and ready to be used, configured, etc.

Known Issues

  • I use static DHCP for my network and found that this page had strange errors (incorrect labels, missing radio buttons). If this happens to you, try a hard reset (hold the reset button in the back of the router for at least 10 seconds). This fixed this problem for me.
    • Relatively same issue with MAC filtering where the word "error" replaced labels.
  • I changed some settings in the Administration page and it changed my language to one of the Asian character sets (no, I did not change the language in the selection box). I was honestly too lazy to try and figure out where the language section was, so I hard reset the router and it defaulted back to English.
  • If you did not hard reset the router before you installed DD-WRT, then the login information is as follows:
    • Username: root
    • Password: Whatever your password was
    • Hard reset the router if you cannot figure out the login information. Refer here for the default login information.
  • Occasionally after changing a setting, the router will lose its connection to the internet. All you need to do to restore the connection is navigate to the Administration page and scroll to the bottom and hit the Reboot Router button.
    • I recommend that you change all the settings you want to change then reboot the router regardless.