TP-Link TL-WR802N?

[CTXSi]

Anyone on the forum have experience with the TP-Link TL-WR802N? Specifically has anyone tried running third party firmware on it? It looks like it is similar to the TL-WR841ND v9 and can unofficially run the firmware intended for the TL-WR841ND v9. Anyone try and have any experience with it? I got one as a gift and its a cool little unit for travel, I'd just like to give it some more capabilities...

For reference I've found these:
DD-WRT: http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=997566
OpenWRT: https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/19232

 

[pete y testing]

the issue with that little router is it also has a quite small amount of ram and flash ram

https://wikidevi.com/wiki/TP-LINK_TL-WR802N_v1.0

now dont confuse the

TP-Link TL-WR802N

which is a small travel router

http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/cat-9_TL-WR802N.html

with the


TP-Link TL-WR842N(D) v1.x

http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/cat-9_TL-WR842ND.html

as it does support 3rd party firmware

 

[CTXSi]

the issue with that little router is it also has a quite small amount of ram and flash ram

https://wikidevi.com/wiki/TP-LINK_TL-WR802N_v1.0

now dont confuse the

which is a small travel router

http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/cat-9_TL-WR802N.html

with the

TP-Link TL-WR842N(D) v1.x

http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/cat-9_TL-WR842ND.html

as it does support 3rd party firmware

Thank you. I absolutely recognize the TL-WR802N is a travel device and has less ram than is ideal for 3rd party firmware. Based on the links I've read it is my understanding that the CPU and some other internal components may be shared between the WR802N and the WR841ND v9, allowing WR841ND 3rd party firmware to run on the WR802N. Several links have suggested that there are unofficial versions of DD-WRT and OpenWRT for the router. I am curious if anyone has tried those and if so what their experience has been.

 

[CTXSi]

If I am reading this link right it now looks like OpenWRT now supports the TL-WR802N as of Jan 21... https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/571269/

Rick Pannen - Jan. 21, 2016, 5:17 p.m.
Hi,

I added support for the TP-Link 802N (http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/cat-9_TL-WR802N.html) to trunk.
Everything is based on the existing WR841N_V9 code (same chipset).
The resulting firmware can be flashed onto a factory device and runs without any problems on my 2 test devices.

Now to figure out how to download and install it. Never used OpenWRT before, this could be a good chance to learn.

 

[CTXSi]

Turns out you can run DD-WRT on this. To install you need to use TFTP, set set your PC IP to 192.168.0.66, change the filename of the firmware you are uploading to "wr802nv1_tp_recovery.bin", and then hold the reset button on the router for 3 seconds while plugging it in. The DD-WRT forum link in the first post has more info as well as the files to use for initial flash.