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Pirate Box On TL-MR3420

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MrErwan
Pirate Box On TL-MR3420
January 27, 2012 05:01AM
I recently purchased the TP-Link MR3420 v1.2 and got Pirate Box running on it within an hour. I had no problem installing open wrt on it and installing pirate box was easy and fast.

I highly recommend this cheap router ($44) for making a PB.
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creighto
Re: Pirate Box On TL-MR3420
January 28, 2012 03:16AM
Thanks for this.
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creighto
Re: Pirate Box On TL-MR3420
January 28, 2012 03:39AM
What is the input voltage for this device?
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creighto
Re: Pirate Box On TL-MR3420
February 12, 2012 01:40AM
Alright, I've ordered one from Newegg. Can someone provide a walkthrough?
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asz
Re: Pirate Box On TL-MR3420
March 22, 2012 10:28PM
Voltage is 12V. Works like a charm. Good signal range.
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drhitchcock
Re: Pirate Box On TL-MR3420
June 03, 2012 10:43AM
Does anyone know if the installation for this the same as per: http://wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox_DIY_OpenWrt
eye popping smiley
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Matthias
Re: Pirate Box On TL-MR3420
June 03, 2012 11:07AM
If you can figure out which image you need, you can use them as well.
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drhitchcock
Re: Pirate Box On TL-MR3420
June 03, 2012 08:49PM
Yeah I found this link on the openwrt forum. According to one user it was successfully used back in January.
[downloads.openwrt.org]
Do you think it'll still work?
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Matthias
Re: Pirate Box On TL-MR3420
June 03, 2012 09:07PM
There are two possibilities:

1. It works and the wiki-pages are outdated
2. It don't work and the wiki pages are up to date :/

Maybe asking in opentwrt forums is useful

Matthias
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drhitchcock
Re: Pirate Box On TL-MR3420
June 03, 2012 11:17PM
Ha ha! Of course. Probably a good idea I check before potential brickage. Especially considering there have been some issues with entering failsafe for some on this device. Will keep you all posted.
Cheers,
Dr H
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Distribution
Re: Pirate Box On TL-MR3420
June 27, 2012 02:12AM
drhitchcock Wrote:
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> Ha ha! Of course. Probably a good idea I check
> before potential brickage. Especially considering
> there have been some issues with entering failsafe
> for some on this device. Will keep you all
> posted.
> Cheers,
> Dr H

Any word? I'm considering buying one and want to know what problems people have with it.
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drhitchcock
Re: Pirate Box On TL-MR3420
July 04, 2012 06:35AM
I haven't had a chance to try this out yet but I plan to in the next couple of weeks.

Wish me luck.
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drhitchcock
Re: Pirate Box On TL-MR3420
July 12, 2012 09:44PM
Great related success!

So I ended up getting a MR3220 with one antenna instead of the 3420 because I'm planning on plugging an external wifi extender on to it and thought that having two antennas might mess with that. From what I can tell from the OpenWRT site is that it's a pretty similar process.

I used the OEM easy install instructions and used this firmware file. Then I continued from step 10 of the usual process.

It's all working fine although I think I disrupted the imageboard install process so that's not quite right but I do have standard PirateBox functionality.

Go Team PB!

Peace,
Dr H
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Matthias
Re: Pirate Box On TL-MR3420
July 13, 2012 07:28AM
great!
did you get any error messages?
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drhitchcock
Re: Pirate Box On TL-MR3420
July 13, 2012 02:43PM
No not that I can think of.

I had a few glasses of red wine while in the process which didn't help. smileys with beer
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Azer
Re: Pirate Box On TL-MR3420
August 01, 2012 12:39PM
I can confirm 3220 v 1.2 works great as described above
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EffKay
Re: Pirate Box On TL-MR3420
December 17, 2012 09:49AM
Today my TL-MR3420 V1.3 arrived. Since I read about some Problems with V1.3 and Open-WRT I'm looking forward to try the
openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-mr3420-v1-squashfs-factory.bin
According to some Forum-posts ( [forum.openwrt.org] ), r33312 should work. I'll post an update when its done.

Cheers
EffKay
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EffKay
Re: Pirate Box On TL-MR3420
December 18, 2012 12:16AM
Follow up:
The installation of the Open-WRT-Firmware was a piece of cake. smiling smiley

I had some trouble to find the hint, that the device has to have 192.168.1.1 but after that, the installation and configuration following the step-by-step instructions was easy.

Final result: My TL MR-3420 is up and running as a 32GB PirateBox in Munich smiling smiley

Cheers
EffKay
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EffKay
Re: Pirate Box On TL-MR3420
December 18, 2012 12:19AM
Oh, just one add on:

I used a brand new TL MR-3420 V1.3 since the older Versions are not sold anymore.
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