Wireless Joint

That's exactly what the issue was Jim and after setting it aside for a couple of days I finally got it right.

Not really sure what I was doing wrong earlier but a fresh reset on the router and flashing a fresh download of openwrt the device finally came to life.

Would there be any harm in trying to flash WIFIX NEXQ6GO or OpenWRT instead?

It's a stock WE826-T2 that was up and running with GoldenOrb. Being a rookie I played with a lot of the settings trying to improve it's performance and for the learning experience. When I tried to reset it back to the original firmware nothing seemed to remove my tinkering so I finally decided to ...

I believe it came shipped with the 32 version but I've tried both images for 16 and 32 with the same response of Checksum Failed.

After numerous attempts to reset a WE826-T2 (32M) - EC25-AF back to it's original GoldenOrb firmware for a fresh start, I gave up and had a brainiac idea to flash the firmware to solve the issue.
It took quite a few resets but was finally able to get it into recovery mode but whenever I try to flash ...