Reverting back "IF POSSIBLE AT ALL" to Pre Lockdown Firmware

[R1-Limited]

Just going to say yes I read all the information thus far and the you cant go back once updated warnings. But hey this is the internet someone may have done it and how?

I am simply not impressed with performance at all not that the new builds are forthcoming, Not to say Merlinwrt is bad just to say this lock down has caused what was a pretty nice long range WiFi for me to become well 10 steps back into Wireless N speeds again.

Just curious if anyone has as of yet tried to or successfully dumped the latest Locked Firmware back to pre .60

 

[thelonelycoder]

Just going to say yes I read all the information thus far and the you cant go back once updated warnings. But hey this is the internet someone may have done it and how?

I am simply not impressed with performance at all not that the new builds are forthcoming, Not to say Merlinwrt is bad just to say this lock down has caused what was a pretty nice long range WiFi for me to become well 10 steps back into Wireless N speeds again.

Just curious if anyone has as of yet tried to or successfully dumped the latest Locked Firmware back to pre .60

I did it with my devlopment router, a RT-AC66U. Set it into recovery mode and installed 380.59.
Edit: To clarify, I downgraded from 380.61 to .59.
Runs fine but boots a bit slower than before. Especially compared to the second RT-AC66U that never had a higher version than .59.

 

[R1-Limited]

Thanks, ya was thinking of tryin gme RT-ac66 first. Any caveates or process steps you did outside of just recovery mode?

 

[thelonelycoder]

Thanks, ya was thinking of tryin gme RT-ac66 first. Any caveates or process steps you did outside of just recovery mode?

I did a reset of the router before and for good measure, afterwards.
Then manually configured my settings.

 

[Blinkyz]

Just going to say yes I read all the information thus far and the you cant go back once updated warnings. But hey this is the internet someone may have done it and how?

I am simply not impressed with performance at all not that the new builds are forthcoming, Not to say Merlinwrt is bad just to say this lock down has caused what was a pretty nice long range WiFi for me to become well 10 steps back into Wireless N speeds again.

Just curious if anyone has as of yet tried to or successfully dumped the latest Locked Firmware back to pre .60

Are you looking for this?

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/re...-61-is-now-available.33994/page-6#post-274879

 

[R1-Limited]

Are you looking for this?

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/re...-61-is-now-available.33994/page-6#post-274879

No, I am trying to get rid of it as noted in my original post

Just curious if anyone has as of yet tried to or successfully dumped the latest Locked Firmware back to pre .60

 

[RMerlin]

No, I am trying to get rid of it as noted in my original post

That's exactly what the linked post is about: using firmware recovery mode to flash any previous build.