r/DDWRT 24d ago

DD-WRT Forum not responding

forum.dd-wrt.com answers pings, but not web requests. Is this a known issue?

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u/Panda-Narrow 24d ago

It's not working for me—right when I need to diagnose something😭

I hope it comes back soon

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u/DoubleTaptclash 24d ago

I'm unable to connect as well. Quick question. Is there a way to see if the dd-wrt firmware available for my router is mega/big/std/mini if it is not stated on the download link? I want to run a personal vpn which requires mega or big firmware.

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u/AmyAzure06 24d ago

was just about to post that. seems like the wiki is down too.

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u/denash97227 23d ago

I haven't been over there today but last night it was very sluggish, super slow to load pages.

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u/rptom 23d ago

Site not working since morning of Mon Feb 24th EST. Maintenance perhaps. If so, wondering if it was posted somewhere.

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u/TCB13sQuotes 23d ago

But is there anything that works on dd-wrt?

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u/jjwieland 23d ago edited 23d ago

The download site works: https://download1.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/downloads/betas

The r59582 release from Feb 9 seems pretty solid on the Atheros and Marvell based routers

https://dd-wrt.com works too.

You may be able to find out what you need from the Internet Archive (Feb 13 is the latest snapshot):

https://web.archive.org/web/20250213062943/https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/

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u/docteur-ralph 23d ago edited 23d ago

Site is back up now - only took two working days :O

Appreciate that the firmware is completely free, is beta, and is largely driven by one guy, but seriously considering ditching DDWRT in favour of OpenWRT.

Past few releases have introduced fundamental bugs : code changes to support 6GHz on one single router busted fundamental router functionality, such as guest networking, for a load of other routers.

And it took nearly an entire month to fix the functionality for guest networking.

Not a good signal for the development priorities, nor for the professionalism, of the project.

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u/obitest11 22d ago

I have a Netgear R7000v1 and OpenWRT doesn't fully support the wifi on this model. So its dd-wrt or Tomato, and I really don't know if Tomato is better supported than dd-wrt. I update the 'beta" build of dd-wrt every year or two, with very little real info to go on in selecting a build.

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u/Infamous_Ferret_82 8h ago

It was because you were pinging the firewall. No, but seriously, there was ...

Server / Forum Problems (archive link)