WRT160N V3 Bricked

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I was getting wired download speeds of 12.3Mbs, but only 350Kbps wireless. I contacted Cisco live chat, who suggested I upgrade the firmware. I upgraded to V3.0.03. Now, I get wireless download speeds of 3.0 Mbps (10x improvement), but my wired download speeds have slowed to 3.3Mbps. If I connect di. Tomato is a small, lean and simple replacement firmware for Linksys' WRT54G/GL/GS, Buffalo WHR-G54S/WHR-HP-G54 and other Broadcom-based routers. Tomato USB This fork adds built-in support for USB port, wireless-N mode support, support for several newer router models, and various enhancements. I got this WRT160N almost 10 years ago and it served reasonably well in my Brothers home and then as a backup/testing router. Mumu emulator for mac. Even when it came out it was not particularly special just a basic wireless N router on 2.4Ghz only. Range is so-so, enough to cover an average small home well. Bottom line is in 2017 this is a very dated router.

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t2mg
DD-WRT Novice
Joined: 10 Jun 2011
Posts: 5

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 7:26 Post subject:

I had to register and drop by to let you guys know exactly how to fix this. I just successfully unbricked my router by:
Manually assigning my ethernet adapter a
IP 192.168.1.x address,
255.255.255.0 subnet,
192.168.1.1 gateway
unplugging the router, holding the reset button in and powering it up, DO NOT RELEASE, visit http://192.168.1.1/ or http://192.168.1.1/f2.htm [don't think it matters] and upload your file, the router will now automatically reboot, NOW release the reset button as it comes back up, configure your router the way you want it and enjoy!
I intentionally bricked it 2 more times (power light turns off and stays off) and I can confirm this works for me every time.
(Please edit my post as needed for clarity, readability, sentence structure and grammar)

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barryware
DD-WRT Guru
Joined: 26 Jan 2008
Posts: 13049
Location: Behind The Reset Button

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 14:06 Post subject: Re: Just to say thank you

zoeysmiles wrote:

t2mg wrote:

I had to register and drop by to let you guys know exactly how to fix this. I just successfully unbricked my router by:
Manually assigning my ethernet adapter a
IP 192.168.1.x address,
255.255.255.0 subnet,
192.168.1.1 gateway
unplugging the router, holding the reset button in and powering it up, DO NOT RELEASE, visit http://192.168.1.1/ or http://192.168.1.1/f2.htm [don't think it matters] and upload your file, the router will now automatically reboot, NOW release the reset button as it comes back up, configure your router the way you want it and enjoy!
I intentionally bricked it 2 more times (power light turns off and stays off) and I can confirm this works for me every time.
(Please edit my post as needed for clarity, readability, sentence structure and grammar)

after countless hours and headache..simple as this..no disassembly..pin shorts..cables..didnt even hard reset..i even had the pleasure of rebricking..again thank you

Ineresting. I wonder if this technique will work with other routers.
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ghoffman
DD-WRT User
Joined: 03 Jan 2010
Posts: 453

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 21:19 Post subject:
questions for the experimenters - before i get home to try this myself- what comes up on your browser when you open up 192.168.1.1 with the reset button held in? the router must be pretty far along in the boot process to display a web page. what does ping return? can you successfully tftp to the router with the reset button held in?

barryware
DD-WRT Guru
Joined: 26 Jan 2008
Posts: 13049
Location: Behind The Reset Button

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 0:13 Post subject:
Didn't work on a 310 V1 which was flashed with V2 stock oem firmware which caused the brick. _________________ [Moderator Deleted]

LOM
DD-WRT Guru
Joined: 28 Dec 2008
Posts: 7632

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 4:03 Post subject:

barryware wrote:

Didn't work on a 310 V1 which was flashed with V2 stock oem firmware which caused the brick.

310v1 is too old for having a CFE HTTP server, it appeared first in 160v3,310v2,320,610v1.
Th way of invoking it may differ between routers since there has been lots of code changes to that function since it was introduced.
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zoeysmiles
DD-WRT Novice
Joined: 12 Jul 2011
Posts: 2

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 19:07 Post subject:
after reading t2mgs post..and of course it worked first shot no muss to fuss.. i too felt compelled to register.. just to say thank you to t2mg goes to show for how things are made opposed to how they are presented thinking..likely to be that you know some more tips and tricks for gadget geeks..?

Sagres
DD-WRT Novice
Joined: 14 Aug 2011
Posts: 1

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 18:55 Post subject: Not working for me..
Unfortunately this did not work for me. Do you need a crossover to make this work?

maxikaaz
DD-WRT Novice
Joined: 05 Jun 2011
Posts: 2
Location: Poland

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 16:56 Post subject:
Hi My problem with WRT160N v3 is probably different. After RAM upgrade (64MB - Nanya NT5DS32M16BS-6K) router was starting correctly, but only 32MB was visible. After commands designed for RAM-modded WRT54G/GL/GS -

Wrt160n V3 Firmware 3003