Will Flash to DD-WRT Allow R7000 NetGear Nighthawk to make WAN with 4G Sierra 320U (Telstra USB)

grang on 06/03/2017 - 02:33

So I have a working USB 320 U (Took a while but now running)
I have Netgear Nighthawk R7000 running stock firmware
Natively, it does not support USB modem (Has USB ports)

However, it appears that DD-WRT supports USB modems, inlcuding my model - https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/3G_/_3.5G (Scroll down to Sierra). Seems the prominent release is Kongs.

Will this work?

Tomato or DD-WRT?

So far I have stuck with stock firmware to get hardware acceleration (whatever that really means in practice)

Computing

Comments

  • [Deactivated] on 06/03/2017 - 07:55
    +1

    Possibly
    Try it and see
    At worst you can reflash stock firmware back onto it

    Also as a fyi you are better off posting this question at the ddrwrt forums as you'll get much better answers

  • stratbargain on 06/03/2017 - 10:21
    +1

    Check out Asuswrt - http://xvtx.ru/xwrt/about.htm it supports 3G modems and the r7000 - https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1000807

    It's based on the ASUS firmware. Quicker wifi than DD-WRT on the R7000 and a much easier to use interface.

    Highly recommended for the R7000

    • grang on 14/04/2017 - 14:10

      ok, finally had time.
      Used the version (380) from 3 Feb.
      It is quite a beautiful UX.
      The option of USB being Primary WAN or Failover or load balance is quite cool

      I get the Sierra 320 USB device detected.
      I can put in the APN (Vodafone)

      … but it doesn't seem to connect. Bummer.

      Everything else is quite cool… May have to buy the hardware for the sim card; not sure if I am getting a setting wrong.

  • grang on 06/03/2017 - 10:56

    this looks very interesting… and retains hardware NAT translation. going to give it a go

    (Reason I was hesitant on firmware move - Swtiching from a "top end" TPLINK to the R7000 a little while back, my synology NAS throughput went up 50%+ over wired and wifi links)

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