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Well, I have a TP Link TL-WR841N router, it's a pretty cheap router but it's actually really good
I can't remember how I bricked the router, but I'll try to go over how I remember things
So basically about a year ago I put the DD-WRT custom firmware on it and that went well, the system was working flawlessly, it was going smooth, everything worked ok
DD-WRT has a lot of cool features, you can really customize the router with that firmware
So there's this one where you can disable the reset button, so I said ok why not, just for no reason, because I don't mind having to go into the router firmware to reset stuff
Here's the thing, so I can't remember how this thing even got bricked, I don't know if I was trying to update DD-WRT, do a factory reset for DD-WRT or what, but now I can't really access the firmware
The router turns on, it doesn't keep rebooting like routers commonly do when they're bricked, it actually even shows the dd-wrt wifi network, which I can sometimes connect to, but I can't access the router website, it doesn't go to the website when I'm connected to the wifi network, and even when I'm connected directly with an ethernet cable
I could do a reset from the reset button at the back of the router, but since I had disabled that in dd-wrt, it won't do anything, not even a 30/30/30 reset does anything really
That tells me that dd-wrt is still active on there but there's no way of accessing it since I can't go to the firmware for some reason
Also, this might be worth mentioning, I had the router connected to my computer, and I used Wireshark to see what the router was doing when I turned it on, and it said something like:
Who's using 192.168.1.1? Tell 0.0.0.0
Also, since the reset button is disabled, I would hold the reset button while booting the router so that it can boot from a firmware file it's looking for, but it's disabled so there's no way to do so I guess
Edit: I just remembered, the name is actually TL-WR841N, so I fixed it
I can't remember how I bricked the router, but I'll try to go over how I remember things
So basically about a year ago I put the DD-WRT custom firmware on it and that went well, the system was working flawlessly, it was going smooth, everything worked ok
DD-WRT has a lot of cool features, you can really customize the router with that firmware
So there's this one where you can disable the reset button, so I said ok why not, just for no reason, because I don't mind having to go into the router firmware to reset stuff
Here's the thing, so I can't remember how this thing even got bricked, I don't know if I was trying to update DD-WRT, do a factory reset for DD-WRT or what, but now I can't really access the firmware
The router turns on, it doesn't keep rebooting like routers commonly do when they're bricked, it actually even shows the dd-wrt wifi network, which I can sometimes connect to, but I can't access the router website, it doesn't go to the website when I'm connected to the wifi network, and even when I'm connected directly with an ethernet cable
I could do a reset from the reset button at the back of the router, but since I had disabled that in dd-wrt, it won't do anything, not even a 30/30/30 reset does anything really
That tells me that dd-wrt is still active on there but there's no way of accessing it since I can't go to the firmware for some reason
Also, this might be worth mentioning, I had the router connected to my computer, and I used Wireshark to see what the router was doing when I turned it on, and it said something like:
Who's using 192.168.1.1? Tell 0.0.0.0
Also, since the reset button is disabled, I would hold the reset button while booting the router so that it can boot from a firmware file it's looking for, but it's disabled so there's no way to do so I guess
Edit: I just remembered, the name is actually TL-WR841N, so I fixed it
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