once you upgrade the firmware, you cannot restore from a back up settings file (the NVRAMBAK created by backing up) created under an earlier (i.e. ten minutes ago) version of firmware.

A backup file can only restore settings to the same version of firmware.

So don’t plan on restoring your settings with a backup file you make prior to upgrading. Write those settings down…

once you upgrade the firmware, you cannot restore from a back up settings file (the NVRAMBAK created by backing up) created under an earlier (i.e. ten minutes ago) version of firmware.

A backup file can only restore settings to the same version of firmware.

So don’t plan on restoring your settings with a backup file you make prior to upgrading. Write those settings down…

DD-WRT Wiki is so buried in scads of sub-links and paragraphs of warnings and precautions that you find yourself flipping through several tabs to find the very basics, e.g. what’s the latest version, and what’s the quickest path to upgrade my out-of-date version.

Yes, I’m well aware of all of the precautions from the first go-round, what I needed was a concise summary.

Nice work.

BTW I can tell those of you wavering on whether to upgrade or not, that my current DD-WRT v23 SP2 (09/15/06) micro running on my WRT-54GL *does* have issues.

For one, it will not support UDP VoIP sessions for Truphone on a Nokia E90. And, after lots of sessions, from many machines it absolutely does get semi-clogged, dropping about a third of ping requests and reporting very long RTTs. A restart clears it up, but hopefully an upgrade eliminates this for good.

Timely info, Citizen Kramfs (don’t know if you’re male or female); keep it up. That link about choppy video using VLC at 1080P looks right up my alley as well – may have to bookmark this site

DD-WRT Wiki is so buried in scads of sub-links and paragraphs of warnings and precautions that you find yourself flipping through several tabs to find the very basics, e.g. what’s the latest version, and what’s the quickest path to upgrade my out-of-date version.

Yes, I’m well aware of all of the precautions from the first go-round, what I needed was a concise summary.

Nice work.

BTW I can tell those of you wavering on whether to upgrade or not, that my current DD-WRT v23 SP2 (09/15/06) micro running on my WRT-54GL *does* have issues.

For one, it will not support UDP VoIP sessions for Truphone on a Nokia E90. And, after lots of sessions, from many machines it absolutely does get semi-clogged, dropping about a third of ping requests and reporting very long RTTs. A restart clears it up, but hopefully an upgrade eliminates this for good.

Timely info, Citizen Kramfs (don’t know if you’re male or female); keep it up. That link about choppy video using VLC at 1080P looks right up my alley as well – may have to bookmark this site