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It's another reason once you bought a router to reflash it with alternative firmwares as OpenWRT or DD-WRT
by mobilio 6y ago
It's another reason once you bought a router to reflash it with alternative firmwares as OpenWRT or DD-WRT
- wycy 6y agoThe last time I looked into OpenWRT/DD-WRT (years ago), it seemed disadvantageous to switch to them because they would be slower than stock firmware due to missing some kind of hardware support. Is this still the case these days? EDIT: It sounds like the situation for my router (R7000) is quite the opposite now, apparently being almost twice as fast due to new hardware acceleration features.
- mushufasa 6y agoIt's faster in my scenario. YMMMV.
- msla 6y agoNot in the specific models I looked at. I personally use a Linksys WRT3200ACM. https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/linksys_wrt3200acm https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/linksys_wrt3200acm
- zantana 6y agoDD-WRT is has access to some proprietary (Broadcom?) code which enables NAT acceleration on some models which, at least in my case, greatly improved performance over OpenWRT.
- mobilio 6y agoExactly. They have signed an NDA with Broadcom: https://openwrt.org/meta/infobox/broadcom_wifi https://openwrt.org/meta/infobox/broadcom_wifi "DD-WRT has a license agreement and NDA in place with Broadcom that allow usage of better, proprietary, closed source wireless drivers (binary blobs) which they are not allowed to redistribute freely."
- rmrfstar 6y agoWhat's the deal with no signatures on OpenWRT firmware images.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago? https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/security/release_signatures https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/security/release_signatu...