Asus RT-N13U & torrent downloads finally .....

Bought a cheap yet powerful Asus RT N13U router after bricking my linksys wrt400n a day earlier :(.

Asus has built a nice piece of hardware, not as powerful as my WRT though, but has really exciting features like bittorrent support ,FTP, printer , scanner sharing , NAS etc and costs just over INR 3000.

Network setup was not as smooth as I thought it would be, after upgrading the firmware to 2.0.0.9 and utilities to 4.0.9.1 my net link was up and running. Happy that initial setup was complete I tried getting my hands dirty with the download manager but with no luck, was able to get it work after a bit of struggle.

Below is a short how-to for enabling pc-less downloading, enjoy!

Note : Turn off the PC and router firewall , disable USB and FTP share

• Make sure you have upgraded the router's firmware to 2.0.0.9 ( latest while writing).
• Format the thumb drive you plan to save the downloads to using FAT-32 ( NTFS is not supported)
• Download the following zip and extract the .apps contents on the drive's root.
• Connect back the thumb drive [ I havent tried it with external HDD, so not sure if it supports it ] to the router and connect the download manager to it, gIFT daemon should now work.
• Load a torrent using the windows utility to the router and you're good to go ..

Credits :  http://rt-n13u.narod2.ru

Linksys WRT400N bricked , Damn!

Finally I have decided to blog , not starting with a happy post though!

Late yesterday night, I stoned my beloved Linksys WRT400N router while flashing it with tomato firmware.
Its another story that it's toast now :( . The only option left to resurrect it, is to jTag it.

Here's how the story goes...

I had successfully flashed it with dd-wrt initially , which I absolutely loved. It was the first time I played with it whole heartedly to explore the ugly underbellies of the linksys firmware. Though WRT400N lacks USB support I wanted to see Transmission run on it .. Alas, due to my high impatience and problems with my ISP net setup , i decided to flash it with tomato and in few minutes it was dead :(( never to wake up again .. I believe in reincarnation though , will surely get back to it as and when I get a breather ..