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Mine went dead after about 8 years of use, and really 11G is a bit slow these days when multiple devices started streaming. I wish Linksys can have a reasonably

by ausjke 10y ago

Mine went dead after about 8 years of use, and really 11G is a bit slow these days when multiple devices started streaming. I wish Linksys can have a reasonably priced 11N version that can load open source code to continue this legacy.

itp 10y ago
You could look at the WRT1200AC. It's available as a certified refurb on amazon.com for $90, and as part of their WRT line is intended to support open source firmwares.
- loopbit 10y ago
  > as part of their WRT line is intended to support open source firmwares Not sure about the 1200, but I have the WRT610N and it has never worked completely with Open/DD-WRT. The best I got (before leaving it and returning to the original firmware) was a functional router but no USB and no 5GHz band.
  - casenjo 10y ago
    Wow that's really surprising. Is it one of the later revisions? I'm running the 610N with DD-WRT and I the 5GHz band running just fine @ 300 mbps
- lmns 10y ago
  >and as part of their WRT line is intended to support open source firmwares. The wireless driver is crap, though. The last time I checked it wasn't recommended due to wireless problems. https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/recommended_routers https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/recommended_routers
logfromblammo 10y ago
I still have two. I'm really having a hard time making the decision to replace them, when they still work as well now as they did 8 years ago, running Tomato the whole time. But the number of devices connecting and the bandwidth they require are only increasing, and 802.11n or 802.11ac would really help with some of them. I also have desire for a relatively inexpensive wireless router that does not attempt to prevent me from loading on it whatever software that pleases me to run. I will not pay a full purchase price for any device that I cannot own. That doesn't necessarily mean I won't ever have such a device; it just means there has to be some way to jailbreak it before I will consider buying.
- __jal 10y ago
  The AC68U is hackable and overall a pretty reasonable device. The only issue I've seen was that it had some weirdness with power levels with some revision of the Merlin firmware (I forget which one), in which it would report much higher output than a spectrum analyzer showed. I don't recall the fix, so it must have been fairly simple.
ausjke 10y ago
After the WRT54GL went away I bought a Routerstation Pro from UBNT and loaded with 2.4G/5G 11N radio cards, it's running Openwrt stably for years. Unfortunately I think Ubiquiti stopped selling that board.

by ausjke 10y ago

itp 10y ago

You could look at the WRT1200AC. It's available as a certified refurb on amazon.com for $90, and as part of their WRT line is intended to support open source firmwares.

loopbit 10y ago
> as part of their WRT line is intended to support open source firmwares Not sure about the 1200, but I have the WRT610N and it has never worked completely with Open/DD-WRT. The best I got (before leaving it and returning to the original firmware) was a functional router but no USB and no 5GHz band.
- casenjo 10y ago
  Wow that's really surprising. Is it one of the later revisions? I'm running the 610N with DD-WRT and I the 5GHz band running just fine @ 300 mbps
lmns 10y ago
>and as part of their WRT line is intended to support open source firmwares. The wireless driver is crap, though. The last time I checked it wasn't recommended due to wireless problems. https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/recommended_routers https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/recommended_routers

logfromblammo 10y ago

I still have two. I'm really having a hard time making the decision to replace them, when they still work as well now as they did 8 years ago, running Tomato the whole time. But the number of devices connecting and the bandwidth they require are only increasing, and 802.11n or 802.11ac would really help with some of them. I also have desire for a relatively inexpensive wireless router that does not attempt to prevent me from loading on it whatever software that pleases me to run. I will not pay a full purchase price for any device that I cannot own. That doesn't necessarily mean I won't ever have such a device; it just means there has to be some way to jailbreak it before I will consider buying.

__jal 10y ago
The AC68U is hackable and overall a pretty reasonable device. The only issue I've seen was that it had some weirdness with power levels with some revision of the Merlin firmware (I forget which one), in which it would report much higher output than a spectrum analyzer showed. I don't recall the fix, so it must have been fairly simple.

ausjke 10y ago

After the WRT54GL went away I bought a Routerstation Pro from UBNT and loaded with 2.4G/5G 11N radio cards, it's running Openwrt stably for years. Unfortunately I think Ubiquiti stopped selling that board.