Open the back of the router by removing the 4 screws hidden underneath the rubber stands. Remove both covers and carefully place the router motherboard on your desk. Make sure the boards Ethernet ports are facing the left and the Serial pins positioned on the right but in the bottom right corner. 4. Connect your […]

Fast forward a few years, and after a few IoT device purchases, multiple VLAN setup with DD-WRT started to become more attractive.  More importantly, a friend asked about the same so I’ve set out to do just that: setup additional VLAN’s for my own network via DD-WRT.  Why would I want to do this?  For […]

While setting up my gigabit ethernet network, during simulataneous Windows 7 file transfers to the HTPC+B setup, I've received a number of disconnects, virtually every time while transferring my files.  At the point, I not only lost connectivity with the HTPC+B but also my web access most of the time.  Here are the culprits and […]

In this post we'll look at setting up a dual router 1GB/s home network using the TL-WR1043ND routers, both with DD-WRT software.  DD-WRT is one of the documented projects and it goes a long way in making the product very stable and easy to work with. The routers are also capable of Wireless N connections […]