Gargoyle-ispy 2014-March-15.7z

[kipsta]

Hi,
I'm definitely a newbie when it comes to intermediate releases and I have tried to search the site/forums for an answer.
I recently installed V1.6 on a TP Link WDR4300. All went well. Great firmware thanks to all involved.
I now want to try this release. Do I use the factory or upgrade version of the firmware?
Thanks
kip

[ispyisail]

Hi,
I'm definitely a newbie when it comes to intermediate releases and I have tried to search the site/forums for an answer.
I recently installed V1.6 on a TP Link WDR4300. All went well. Great firmware thanks to all involved.
I now want to try this release. Do I use the factory or upgrade version of the firmware?
Thanks
kip

Usually "upgrade file" using the gargoyle gui

For more details see the openwrt wiki on your device

[spwalmsley]

I've been running 1.5.11 on a TL-WDR4300 v1.6 for a few months and had no problems except for a very short 2.4Ghz range. Looking through the OpenWRT changelog I noticed the following:

change 39408 AA: ar71xx: fix bad RX sensitivity on newer TL-WDR4300 boards

Based on this I did a test install of Ispyisail's 15-Mar-2014 release which incorporates the OpenWRT fix. This version does resolve the WDR4300 range problem - I can now get good (> 100Mb/s) connectivity throughout the whole house rather than in just in a few rooms as before.

To answer kipsta's upgrade question, I used the Gargoyle GUI to upgrade using the "upgrade" (not factory) image and checked the "preserve options" checkbox.

Thanks to the Garygoyle team and to ispyisail for the interim builds.

[kipsta]

Thanks ispy & spwalmley.
I tried installing the upgrade however it never started. I have V1.7 of the WDR4300 and I noticed over at openwrt there are a few issues depending on which AA version is being used in the firmware.
So for now, I'll stay with V1.6.0

Regards
kip