When I purchased my router almost two years ago, I’d hoped to be able to install a third-party firmware (dd-wrt, openwrt, etc). It turned out that the WNDR4500 was sufficiently different from Netgear’s other similarly numbered models that it was not supported.<\/p>\n
From time to time I checked various forums to see if there had been any progress on support and was surprised (and delighted) to discover this thread<\/a> on the dd-wrt forums leading to these firmware images<\/a>.<\/p>\n I installed r23040 using instructions found on the internet<\/a>, which worked (huzzah!). I’ve been able to set up one of the wifi channels in client-bridged mode which isn’t possible with the default firmware, but is a configuration I’d hoped to be able to use when I first purchased the router.<\/p>\n dd-wrt makes messing around with network configurations remarkably straightforward. I’ve yet to try the USB support or anything beyond basic routing.<\/p>\n There are some bugs, and some minor problems that are probably due to my own misconfiguration, but no show-stoppers thus far.<\/p>\n Like many projects of this nature, “documentation” seems to consist of group-edited wiki pages that can be inconsistent, out of date, and unclear, web forums where the discussion assumes a far higher level of familiarity with the subject matter than is useful for the casual newcomer, and an assortment of blog posts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I purchased my router almost two years ago, I’d hoped to be able to install a third-party firmware (dd-wrt, openwrt, etc). It turned out that the WNDR4500 was sufficiently different from Netgear’s other similarly numbered models that it was not supported. From time to time I checked various forums to see if there had … Continue reading “Netgear N900\/WNDR4500 + dd-wrt”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[63,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}