Ok Thanks..
Best to get some form of protection from lightning surges to protect your investment /electronics beside avoid downtime .
you never know when you will be hit next.
it does not cost much .

Hi guys. Im currently on Merlin 380.70 WS880 that was bought used. I wish to flash to Tomato firmware. Do I flash directly or using CFE? TQ

This post has been edited by Gregar Forte: Dec 11 2020, 12:09 AM

Flash directly, refer here Link

Thanks boss for the reply. Will do that. Ill update here afterwards

May i know which tomato firmware version you flashed?
Doesn’t seem like it’s been updated in a while

i used fresh tomato. didnt remember which version but definely newer than shibby one. tried it but really unstable. long time taken to connect pppoe then reverted back to xwrt

Hi, may i how you did it?
I tried uploading the freshtomato from xwrt but i just bricks the router. Had to go back to cfe method

So i’ve been stuck almost 1 hour trying to boot to cfe page. Had no issues last time, but this time repeatedly pressing power + reset button 15-20 sec just doesn’t bring that page anymore.
Any ideas guys?

This post has been edited by alucard89: Dec 27 2020, 01:16 AM

I just flashed it from XWRT directly. Working fine however with slow WAN reconnect and have to reset WAN connection upon BW Limiter, I went back to XWRT lol

Had to reset nvram then i was able to access cfe properly
Btw, on freshtomato, how to setup as wireless repeater?
Basically like this

4g usb modem —> freshtomato ws880

On wxrt there’s a repeater option for that, which makes it easy to setup.

I also noticed on xwrt, if i try to set 4g modem as WAN
I get really slow download speed (0.5mbps) but high upload speed 🤔

Maybe u can try this boss
https://learntomato.flashrouters.com/setup-...20bridge%20link.

Still not working for me it seems
The guide seems to be for 2 routers running on tomato

Looks like the usb modem (oem) was at fault
Even on freshtomato and xwrt i was still getting 0.3-0.5mbps download speed. Oddly enough connect directly the usb modem’s hotspot i was getting normal download speed.
Switched to huawei e8372 wingle modem (setup as wan on xwrt) and everything is smooth sailing.
Might need to reconsider getting oem modem after this

This post has been edited by alucard89: Dec 29 2020, 06:43 PM

Hi guys, how do you configure pppoe settings to connect unifi?
I already key in username (@unifi) and password but it’s still unsuccessful to connect

This post has been edited by alucard89: Mar 18 2021, 06:43 PM

Already check for Unifi Home Profile?

I flashed mine with xwrt Merlin 380.70
Is unifi home profile still there in the settings?



This post has been edited by alucard89: Mar 19 2021, 12:37 AM

You need set vlan tagging settings for unifi also. This is located in LAN - > IPTV.
Choose Unifi profile or manually set it.

Yeah this settings. Thank you bro. Havent used WS880 for a while since it hanged with 500GB usage daily.

Thanks, gonna try this out

How do you even reach that daily use 😅

haha im renting it out to 7 different houses lol. now my internet is free and i got some income out of it. at first the ws880 was doing good until a month its suddenly hanged once a day lol

Thermal pad gone...

Also had two WS880. Given up after almost daily hang. Refused to buy thermal pad and I just used a lot of thermal paste and it was good for few months then start to hang again. Change to Tenda AC18 and it boosted my parents house Unifi speed. I already cracked open the case and install a fan to cool it but still hang.