Linksys E1500

  • Purchased 2016-06-16 from Deseret Industries w/o power adapter for $3.
  • Factory firmware v1.0.00 (2011-01-28) installed, with MAC of C0:C1:C0:90:6F:1C.
  • 8MB ROM / 32MB RAM
  • 2016-06-16: Updated to factory firmware 1.0.6
  • 2016-06-16: Upgraded to DD-WRT v24-sp2 (05/27/13) mini (SVN revision 21676), using instructions given in the DD-WRT wiki:
    • http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Linksys_E1500
      1. Reset to factory defaults in Linksys GUI.
      2. Installed DD-WRT suggested 'mini' build using the Linksys GUI firmware update page.
      3. Installed DD-WRT 'big' build using DD-WRT GUI firmware update page.
      4. Acted a little squirrelly until I performed a 30/30/30 reset, then power cycle.
  • Configured as a wireless client bridge. All works fine.
2019-04-06 Configured as ARpit router

Today I configured this router as the main household router, duplicating the settings from the Netgear WNR834B-v2 that I've been using for the past few years, and setting up with a Guest Network using the instructions found on the DD-WRT wiki (https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Guest_Network), and enabling VPN. I'm hoping that the VPN will work with this unit running a newer build of DD-WRT, since I have not had success with VPN connections on the Netgear running build 14929.

  • 2023-02-11: Upgraded to DD-WRT v3.0-r47090 mega (07/26/21). This is the NEWD nvram64k version of the generic Broadcom build.