{"id":36,"date":"2016-04-13T15:55:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T03:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adriel.co.nz\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2017-03-09T22:23:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T10:23:24","slug":"install-advancedtomato-on-the-linksys-e2500-v3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/2016\/04\/13\/install-advancedtomato-on-the-linksys-e2500-v3\/","title":{"rendered":"Install AdvancedTomato on the Linksys E2500 v3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Installing the AdvancedTomato firmware onto the<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>\u00a0Linksys E2500 v3<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Linksys E2500 N600 Dual-Band Wireless Router<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s2\">For more info on this router look at\u00a0<span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wikidevi.com\/wiki\/Linksys_E2500_v3\">wikidevi<\/a>\u00a0or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linksys.com\/in\/p\/P-E2500\/\">manufacturer&#8217;s website<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For those of you that don&#8217;t know, <a href=\"https:\/\/advancedtomato.com\/\">AdvancedTomato<\/a> is a fork from the Tomato by Shibby project, but with a much improved GUI frontend, and much\u00a0easier to use.<\/p>\n<p>I bought this one as it&#8217;s still a current model being sold which has AdvancedTomato support and is very cheap for what you get.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Disclaimer:<\/strong> When doing things on the firmware level there is always a possibility that something might go wrong and your router becomes bricked.<\/p>\n<p><b>Instructions<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Connect the router via an ethernet cable in one of the LAN ports (1-4), not the WAN port<\/li>\n<li>Login at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.1.1\/\">http:\/\/192.168.1.1\/<\/a><br \/>\n<em>username: admin<br \/>\npassword: admin<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Download the firmware from <a href=\"https:\/\/advancedtomato.com\/downloads\/router\/e2500v3\">https:\/\/advancedtomato.com\/downloads\/router\/e2500v3<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Flash this onto the router in the firmware upgrade\u00a0tab<\/li>\n<li>Wait for it to reboot (1-5 mins)<\/li>\n<li>Once the router is back, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.1.1\/\">http:\/\/192.168.1.1<\/a>\u00a0and login<br \/>\n<em>username: admin<br \/>\npassword: admin<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Erase NVRAM (thorough) under <em>Administration &gt; Configuration<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Click ok to the confirmation, and it&#8217;ll reboot. (~2mins)<\/li>\n<li>Login again<br \/>\n<em>username: admin<br \/>\npassword: admin<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Change your login password and setup as\u00a0desired<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/verahill.blogspot.com\/2013\/07\/484-putting-tomato-usb-on-linksys-e2500.html\">Lindqvist<\/a> blog\u00a0post, which is about installing the Tomato by Shibby version on an older version of the E2500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installing the AdvancedTomato firmware onto the\u00a0Linksys E2500 v3 Linksys E2500 N600 Dual-Band Wireless Router For more info on this router look at\u00a0wikidevi\u00a0or the manufacturer&#8217;s website. For those of you that don&#8217;t know, AdvancedTomato is a fork from the Tomato by Shibby project, but with a much improved GUI frontend, and much\u00a0easier to use. I bought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}