NextAlarm, Linksys WRT610N, no go!

[killervette]

I bought an ABN to use with my elk m1. I hooked everything up and no go. It would occasionally communicate with Nextalarm, but more often then not Elk would say communication failure. I spent an hour on the phone with a tech, and nothing worked. I eventually plugged the cable modem straight to the abn and the signals went. I emailed them today and they said there is a known issue with the WRT610N router.

Any of you guys ever have problems like this and if so, what is your solution? I dont really want to spend more cash and buy a new router.

 

[signal15]

Did they bother to give you a description of what is actually causing the problem? It could even be a problem with the ABN and not the WRT. If they are sending packets with invalid flags set or some other anomaly, the WRT could be throwing them away when other products would just pass them and not care.

 

[sic0048]

An inexpensive solution that would still allow you to keep the Wireless N access point is to simply buy a 2nd router (I would recommend something that runs DD-WRT) that does work with the ABN. Use this as your router and DHCP server. Then use the WRT610N as a wireless access point (turn off all the router DNS and DHCP functions).

I prefer to have separate devices for the router, wireless AP, and switch anyways.

 

[signal15]

An inexpensive solution that would still allow you to keep the Wireless N access point is to simply buy a 2nd router (I would recommend something that runs DD-WRT) that does work with the ABN. Use this as your router and DHCP server. Then use the WRT610N as a wireless access point (turn off all the router DNS and DHCP functions).

I prefer to have separate devices for the router, wireless AP, and switch anyways.

The WRT610N will run DD-WRT. Linksys firmware is crap anyway. The only way to make those things work decently is to put DD-WRT on them. I have the WRT3something, and it works great. Looks like the 610 is supported with test releases.

http://www.dd-wrt.com

This may actually fix your problem.

 

[killervette]

the wrt610 will not run ddwrt yet. its in progress. i have a couple of wrt45g routers that already have it on them. i am going to give those a try in the next week or so. It should solve the issue. I do like the idea of using the wrt610n router as an AP.

 

[signal15]

the wrt610 will not run ddwrt yet. its in progress. i have a couple of wrt45g routers that already have it on them. i am going to give those a try in the next week or so. It should solve the issue. I do like the idea of using the wrt610n router as an AP.

Use a wrt54g as your gateway to the net then, and just use the 610N as an AP bridged to the internal network.