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Gregar Forte
post Dec 10 2020, 11:31 PM

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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

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Gregar Forte
post Dec 11 2020, 12:50 AM

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QUOTE(allcwk @ Dec 11 2020, 12:28 AM)
Flash directly, refer here Link
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Thanks boss for the reply. Will do that. Ill update here afterwards
Gregar Forte
post Dec 19 2020, 03:24 PM

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QUOTE(alucard89 @ Dec 19 2020, 10:55 AM)
May i know which tomato firmware version you flashed?
Doesn’t seem like it’s been updated in a while
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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
Gregar Forte
post Dec 27 2020, 04:15 PM

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QUOTE(alucard89 @ Dec 27 2020, 12:39 AM)
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?
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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
Gregar Forte
post Dec 28 2020, 11:05 AM

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QUOTE(alucard89 @ Dec 27 2020, 11:02 PM)
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 🤔
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Maybe u can try this boss
https://learntomato.flashrouters.com/setup-...20bridge%20link.
Gregar Forte
post Mar 18 2021, 08:32 PM

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QUOTE(alucard89 @ Mar 18 2021, 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
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Already check for Unifi Home Profile?
Gregar Forte
post Mar 19 2021, 11:31 AM

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QUOTE(muncheno @ Mar 19 2021, 06:21 AM)
You need set vlan tagging settings for unifi also. This is located in LAN - > IPTV.
Choose Unifi profile or manually set it.
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Yeah this settings. Thank you bro. Havent used WS880 for a while since it hanged with 500GB usage daily.
Gregar Forte
post Mar 20 2021, 01:07 AM

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QUOTE(alucard89 @ Mar 19 2021, 11:32 PM)
How do you even reach that daily use 😅
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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
Gregar Forte
post Mar 22 2021, 04:12 PM

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QUOTE(andrekua2 @ Mar 22 2021, 01:45 PM)
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.
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I see. Thats really bad. Maybe thats why they sold it so cheap last time. Fan also not doing anything?

 

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