{"id":3249,"date":"2021-12-01T03:33:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T11:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wonghoi.humgar.com\/blog\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2021-12-24T23:45:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T07:45:21","slug":"freshtomato-for-netgear-nighthawk-r7000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wonghoi.humgar.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/01\/freshtomato-for-netgear-nighthawk-r7000\/","title":{"rendered":"Freshtomato for Netgear (Nighthawk) R7000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Netgear R7000 supports these major forms of firmware<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>DD-WRT (Powerful, but very messy web interface that are sometimes non-intuitively organized)<\/li><li>FreshTomato (Powerful. I wouldn&#8217;t say easy to use but mortal souls can understand it)<\/li><li>XWRT-Vortex (Easy to use AsusWRT Merlin web interface adapted for non-Asus routers)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There are other forms of Tomato that support R7000 but only FreshTomato is actively maintained as of late 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However updating it from stock firmware to FreshTomato has some model-specific quirks (that you cannot extrapolate from general procedures for other models)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First of all. You cannot update directly to the latest firmware. There&#8217;s a bootstrap (intermediate) firmware called INITIAL (usually downloaded from &#8216;Netgear R-series initial files&#8217; folder) that must be installed (upgraded from stock firmware to) FIRST so the router is ready to accept the latest\/full firmware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the model specific quirk: the default login\/password is non-standard for R7000! It&#8217;s not <strong>root\/admin<\/strong> (unless you press the button to reset the NVRAM)! It&#8217;s <strong>admin\/@newdig<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After logging into the bootstrap\/INITIAL freshtomato with the password above, upgrade the firmware to the latest (the one intended) and choose clear NVRAM along the way. The default login\/password will be root\/admin as standard for freshtomato.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s another twist for SSH connections! The username in your web admin interface do NOT matter! The username is &#8216;root&#8217; for SSH regardless of what you set in the web interface, your password is the one entered in web admin interface! 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