Prep for Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH2

[silkroad]

Can I to upgrade my Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH2 to Gargoyle router. Please see my router info below. Sorry, I am new in this field.

1. Can I use your link below to successfully install Gargoyle to my router?

http://www.gargoyle-router.com/wiki/dok ... -hp-g300nh.

2. How do I backup the current firmware in case I need to revert back?

3. Can I install Gargoyle on the top of existing firmware?


Router Name DD-WRT
Router Model
WZR-HP-G300NH2
Firmware Version DD-WRT v24SP2-MULTI (10/31/11) std - build 17798

CPU Model
Atheros AR7242 rev 1.1 (0x1101)
CPU Clock
400 MHz

Memory:
Total Available 95% 62100 kB / 65536 kB
Free 72% 4844 kB / 62100 kB
Used 28% 17252 kB / 62100 kB

NVRAM: 21.15 KB / 64 KB
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Your instruction:

Introduction

Step-by-step instructions for the non technical person who wants to install Gargoyle on a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH.
Requirements

Factory stock Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH router and upgrading it to Gargoyle

Upgrade to DD-WRT

Use the Buffalo setup to switch from the “user friendly” firmware to the Buffalo factory default “Professional” firmware (DD-WRT)

Set Password
Logged into DD-WRT at 192.168.11.1 and set a new password and wrote it down.

Telnet
Install Telnet
Installed Telnet on Windows 7 from control panel.

Login with Telent
Opened Telnet and entered:
o 192.168.11.1
prompted for user name and password
used “root” for user name (regardless of user name specified when installing DD-WRT)
Use the password set when configuring DD-WRT.
After successful login, copied and pasted these commands to telnet
Upgrade to Gargoyle (do I copy from cd/tmp or wget)
Buffalo router has to be connect to internet?
cd /tmp
wget http://www.gargoyle-router.com/download ... pgrade.bin
After the wget command, the screen showed a download progress bar and then completion

mtd -e linux -r write gargoyle_1.3.14-ar71xx-wzr-hp-g300nh-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin linux
After mtd command, screen showed several commands, then nothing for a long time. Be patient.

Finally, the screen said “lost connection”

Gargoyle
Gargoyle changed the default IP address to 192.168.1.1
Opened a browser and entered 192.168.1.1
Got the Gargoyle login screen. The default password is “password”
Changed the Gargoyle password. All ready to configure and use!

[ispyisail]

http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/buffalo/wzr-hp-g300nh2

[silkroad]

Sorry, I am not a techy guy. can someone guide me to upgrade my Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH2 to Gargoyle router. Not sure, why I need go to OpenWRT. My router already has DD-WRT firmware. Please see below.

Router Name DD-WRT
Router Model
WZR-HP-G300NH2
Firmware Version DD-WRT v24SP2-MULTI (10/31/11) std - build 17798

CPU Model
Atheros AR7242 rev 1.1 (0x1101)
CPU Clock
400 MHz

Memory:
Total Available 95% 62100 kB / 65536 kB
Free 72% 4844 kB / 62100 kB
Used 28% 17252 kB / 62100 kB

NVRAM: 21.15 KB / 64 KB

[bawjkt]

Sorry, I am not a techy guy.

I'd say you need to be a techie guy to do this upgrade properly. For this particular router, the procedure is complex.

The upgrade to 1043ND is super-simple and the router, while not quite as powerful as the Buffalo, will still do 50Mbit-class for you. And it's under $50.

With the TP-Link 1043ND you would have finished this yesterday in 15 minutes.

Are you really pushing over 50Mbit with QOS anyway?

Let us know how you make out.

[bawjkt]

In the "Success Stories" area, I found a testimonial from someone who bricked his NH2 a week or so ago, then recovered it to factory then tftp'ed 1.5.7 onto it.

See below.

Re: WZR-HP-G300NH2 A1A0
by rfdude » Sun Oct 14, 2012 11:31 am

After bricking my new WZR-HP-G300NH2 A1A0 router with 1.5.6 a couple months ago, I recovered it using the TFTP back to the factory .enc then loaded 1.5.7 (tftp version) successfully. Red Diagnostic LED does stay lit, but Gargoyle works fine. Using QoS and quota's. Been up for a day. If there is any trouble discovered, I'll post to the 1.5.7 News thread.

Great work! Been using Gargoyle to manage traffic at an RV campe for a couple of years. Thank you Gargoyle team!

So perhaps it's a simple TFTP flash with 1.5.7?

Let us know; I've got my eye on the Buffalo as well.

[silkroad]

Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH2 is complex...oh NO

Thank you bawjkt for your encouragement, support and advice. Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH2 is only router I have. For now, I only want to use "Quota" feature for Gargoyle router. I will try to follow the email from "rfdude".
Thanks