Recently, I’ve bought a NetGear WNDR3300 router, which supports N-draft. Ffor a more convenient management of this router, I decided to put DD-WRT firmware on it. For some reason, however, my router doesn’t want to broadcast N-draft with this firmware. As information is limited, here’s how you can revert your installation of DD-WRT:

Following this guide is at your own risk. The following worked for me, but it might be different in your specific situation. If this doesn’t work for you, please contact DD-WRT or your manufacturer.

  1. First, connect your computer using ethernet with the router;
  2. Visit the website of your router, in my case the website of Netgear, and download the user manual and download the latest firmware (do not rename the filename);
  3. In Vista, go to Control Panel – Programs and Features – Windows components and select Telnet Client and TFTP Client. In XP this should already be installed;
  4. After installation is done, go to command prompt and enter ‘telnet 192.168.1.1‘;
  5. Login using username ‘root’ and the password you’ve set up in DD-WRT;
  6. Enter ‘mtd erase linux‘;
  7. After this is completed, enter ‘reboot‘. The connection to the router will get lost;
  8. When reboot is completed, enter ‘tftp -i 192.168.1.1 PUT path/to/firmware.chk‘;
  9. After some time ‘Transfer successful’ will appear in screen;
  10. Now, reset your router (in my case, hold the reset button at the back of the device for about 20 seconds);
  11. In your browser, go to 192.168.1.1 (or your router address) and enter default login information (username ‘admin’, password ‘password’ in my case).

By the way, by reverting my installation, I get an incredible 270 mbit/s with my wireless :) .