DD-WRT

[Dwedit]

Ever heard of this amazing firmware for wireless routers that adds all kinds of cool features?

Here's a big tip for anyone who wants to try this out:
* Stay the hell away from DD-WRT.

My WRT45GL spontaneously died after running it for a month or two, and is now an unflashable brick.

Try Tomato instead.

[SkinnyV]

I've been using DD-WRT for over 3 years on 2 different model of router and never had an issue. It's possible that the problem might been unrelated to the firmware or you were really unlucky. I don't really see how a firmware could have been working for a month and then kill your router... This custom firmware made my life way easier I must say. Have you tried to reflash it using JTAG maybe?

[Movax12]

That doesn't sound conclusive. I use DD-WRT and have for about a looong time without issue.

There is a trick to recover it using TFTP if you haven't tried that.

[Dwedit]

No link, no ping, no "network cable connected" indication, no TFTP, nothing after hitting or holding reset with power on or off, just a brick that blinks the power led rapidly.

[B00daW]

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Re ... _Bad_Flash

Back in the day I had a bad flash problem on my WRT54G. The "earthing" method actually worked for me. I've had DD-WRT working for me years afterward; and I've constantly updated brainslayer's builds.

[NESHomebrew]

I've been running it for over 5 years without any problems. I've got nothing but good things to say about it. I suppose there is always risk when updating firmware.

[TmEE]

I've been running it on my WRTs for several years now, no problems so far. I do want to try Tomato though...

[Super-Hampster]

I've been running it for a while now on my dlink dir-615. Works great.

[whicker]

with a dead router, another thing to do is to check the power supply adapter voltage with a meter.
sometimes it's as simple as that, because these have a finite ability to absorb spikes, because of obvious cost-cutting and small size.

[Dwedit]

The thing was plugged into a UPS, I don't think spikes were a problem.

[drk421]

Been running DD-WRT since it came out.

Been wondering if its dead, since I haven't seen any updates for a while now.