Buffalo WHR-HP-G300N

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bgn (N300)
AirStation High Power N300 Wireless Router & AP
WHR-HP-G300N.jpg
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3rd Party Firmware
dd-wrt
OpenWrt
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Incompatible
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Status Unknown
Platform
BrandModelRev
Buffalo WHR-HP-G300N
FCC ID
IC ID
Type
wireless router
CPU1
Atheros AR7240
CPU1 Type
MIPS 24Kc
CPU1 Speed
400 MHz
Flash1 Chip
Macronix MX25L3205DMI-12G
Flash1 Size
4 MiB4,194,304 B <br />32,768 Kib <br />4,096 KiB <br />32 Mib <br />0.00391 GiB <br /> (Serial)
RAM1 Size
32 MiB33,554,432 B <br />262,144 Kib <br />32,768 KiB <br />256 Mib <br />0.0313 GiB <br />
RAM1 Chip
Mira P3S56D40ETP-G5
ETH chip1
Atheros AR7240
Switch
Atheros AR7240
Ethernet Port Count
1-100MbE-WAN
4-100MbE-LAN
Wired Standard
IEEE 802.3i/3u

802dot11 OUI: 00:24:A5 (3 E, 8 W)
Ethernet OUI: 00:24:A5 (3 E, 8 W)

Expansion IF types
none specified
Power
5 VDC, 2.3 A
Connector type
barrel
Serial Port (UART)
yes
Other

Default SSID: 0024A5XXXXXX (1 addl. devices)

Manuf/OEM/ODM
3rd Party Firmware Support
DD-WRT • (List)
, OpenWrt • (List | Dev | DLs)
Retail
Availability End of Life
End of Life date 2017
FCC approval date 21 July 2009
UPC 747464120249
(UPC DB, On eBay)
ASIN B002WBV2T8 Flag of the United States.svg
Country of manuf China
Physical
Dimensions
5.6 x 4.9 x 1 in.
Radio 1
Chip1
Atheros AR9283
Wireless interface OUI
00:24:A5
Antenna Connector Type
RP-SMA
MIMO status
2x2:2
Wireless Standard
IEEE 802.11b/g/n
802.11n
up to 300 Mbps
802.11g
up to 54 Mbps
802.11b
up to 11 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency
2.412 - 2.462 GHz
 FCC ID
Buffalo WHR-300HPFDI-09101621-0

For a list of all currently documented Atheros (QCA) chipsets with specifications, see Atheros.

For a list of all currently documented Buffalo device with specifications, see Buffalo.

300 Mbps - 2SS 2.4GHz 802.11n (40MHz chan.) = N300 class

Overview

The device appears to be a Cameo product.

The default SSID appears to be the MAC address (no delimiters, upper case hex letters).

Links of Interest

On the DD-WRT wiki
On the DD-WRT forums (AR9283-AL1A part mention, high res board shot)
On the OpenWrt forums, and again

This device is apparently now supported in Attitude Adjustment.

On the DD-WRT Supported Devices table

Listed on the 'Buffalo AirStation' page on Wikipedia (note: listed as having 8MB RAM)

Flashing

Flashing dd-wrt

Supported by dd-wrt as of = v24 SP2 - build 13406 - 20091207

Please insert instructions here

Flashing OpenWrt

On the OpenWrt ToH (techdata entry)
On the OpenWrt Wiki
Support started version: 12.09
Current supported version: 17.01.2

Please insert instructions here

Reverting

Reverting dd-wrt

Per LOM

Set your pc to static ip 192.168.11.2, netmask 255.255.255.0, gateway 192.168.11.1

open a cmd window and type arp -s 192.168.11.1 ro:ut:er:ma:c

open your tftp program, enter filename, destination ip and set retries to 100. Don't start the tftp transfer yet.
(Destination is the router at 192.168.11.1)

Power on the router, wait 5 seconds and then start the tftp transfer at the pc. It will normally take another 5-10 seconds before the transfer starts.

The above works for WHR-HP-G300N which is basically the same router as WHR-HP-GN

JTAG-Serial Info

Serial

Serial Pinouts

See images below

Pictures

User Images

Notes

These units not only support DD-WRT, but they ship with it from the factory. You can revert them to Buffalo's proprietary firmware if desired, though that firmware has reduced functionality. Both Buffalo's branded DD-WRT version and the standard DD-WRT distribution version have bugs that lead to crashing under high load, high connection count situations. BitTorrent is particularly problematic. I am not aware of a way to fix this through configuration options and there has been no patch by Buffalo or DD-WRT.

OpenWRT "Attitude Adjustment" V 12.09 works very well on these units and can be flashed from the DD-WRT upgrade page of the web based admin interface using the file openwrt-ar71xx-generic-whr-hp-g300n-squashfs-factory.bin.  OpenWRT works very well and even under abusive loads remains stable. I consider this the preferred firmware for the device.

These routers also have removable antennas and work quite well with enhanced antennas like D-Link's ANT24-0700

Note that all the above information is based on the hardware revision A1 version of the Buffalo WHR-HP-G300N

Tachyon - '13