Pros Of This Hardware; Cons Of This Hardware; Mainboard - D-Link DIR-300 User Manual

Pros of this hardware

• 4 MB board, so no need to use "micro" DD-WRT builds.
• Fairly inexpensive.
• Fairly new hardware (released in 2009?), so it's widely available for purchase new.
Reasonably fast CPU clock speed.
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• Easy to install DD-WRT on this hardware (just flash through the web interface as per below, and
you're done).
• According to Ralink's website, the chip has a ROM built-in and this means there is no boot code to
crash or mistakenly erase. The ROM contains a bootloader and emergency room web page to recover
flash firmware. Translation: You're unlikey to brick it.

Cons of this hardware

This Ralink hardware does not support Client Bridge wireless mode ( reference ). It does however
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support Repeater Bridge mode, which is similar, but a bit more complicated to set up.
• No USB port, so cannot be a NAS for a USB drive, nor can it be used for Printer Sharing of a USB
printer.
• As it is Ralink chipset based, support by DD-WRT is still limited in terms of firmware builds
availability and community support compared to Broadcom based routers. Currently the only build
from BrainSlayer doesn't include JFFS/CIFS client support.
The LAN Port based VLAN is not supported. You can not assign the LAN Ports with VLAN.
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However, there may be a workaround for VLAN support on the DIR-600.

MainBoard

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