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Linksys recently launched the WRT1900AC as a spiritual successor (in theory) to the WRT54G, but I'm waiting a bit to see how true that is.

by mey 12y ago

alexcroox 12y ago
Can anyone recommend something a little more affordable?
- jaegerpicker 12y ago
  I've had extraordinarily good luck with the apple AirPort Extreme. Handles wifi n traffic and is rock solid. I can regularly play twitch games over it or stream 1080 p without issue.
- retroafroman 12y ago
  I went from dd-wrt on a WRT54G to a TP-LINK TL-WR841NR with OpenWRT and it feels almost exactly the same. I even setup my network with the exact same SSID and password and my devices acted like nothing changed.
- supergauntlet 12y ago
  TP-Link WDR3600/4300 are both solid routers with Atheros chipsets (which means they have full open source support) that are also fairly cheap.
StavrosK 12y ago
Oh wow, you can buy a laptop for that! I thought the appeal of the WRT54GL was that it cost $80?
martey 12y ago
Belkin/Linksys claimed that the WRT1900AC has OpenWRT support, but this does not seem to be the case: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=50173 https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=50173 "Members of the OpenWrt team have been in contact with Linksys for a while, discussing collaboration on device support in OpenWrt. There had been no technical collaboration on device support until Belkin engineers posted a few incomplete patches in early April. These patches are currently being cleaned up, as they do not meet our quality standards. The most important part that is still missing is a usable driver for the Marvell 802.11ac wireless chipset. Belkin is working on fixing this, but they have not given us an estimation on when such a driver will be provided. The default firmware for this device seems to be using a proprietary driver provided by Marvell, which uses non-standard APIs for configuration. We don't know if Marvell will open source this driver, or will work on an alternative Linux driver. We believe that both approaches require a considerable amount of effort and time."

Linksys recently launched the WRT1900AC as a spiritual successor (in theory) to the WRT54G, but I'm waiting a bit to see how true that is.

by mey 12y ago

Linksys recently launched the WRT1900AC as a spiritual successor (in theory) to the WRT54G, but I'm waiting a bit to see how true that is.

alexcroox 12y ago

Can anyone recommend something a little more affordable?

jaegerpicker 12y ago
I've had extraordinarily good luck with the apple AirPort Extreme. Handles wifi n traffic and is rock solid. I can regularly play twitch games over it or stream 1080 p without issue.
retroafroman 12y ago
I went from dd-wrt on a WRT54G to a TP-LINK TL-WR841NR with OpenWRT and it feels almost exactly the same. I even setup my network with the exact same SSID and password and my devices acted like nothing changed.
supergauntlet 12y ago
TP-Link WDR3600/4300 are both solid routers with Atheros chipsets (which means they have full open source support) that are also fairly cheap.

StavrosK 12y ago

Oh wow, you can buy a laptop for that! I thought the appeal of the WRT54GL was that it cost $80?

martey 12y ago

Belkin/Linksys claimed that the WRT1900AC has OpenWRT support, but this does not seem to be the case: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=50173 https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=50173 "Members of the OpenWrt team have been in contact with Linksys for a while, discussing collaboration on device support in OpenWrt. There had been no technical collaboration on device support until Belkin engineers posted a few incomplete patches in early April. These patches are currently being cleaned up, as they do not meet our quality standards. The most important part that is still missing is a usable driver for the Marvell 802.11ac wireless chipset. Belkin is working on fixing this, but they have not given us an estimation on when such a driver will be provided. The default firmware for this device seems to be using a proprietary driver provided by Marvell, which uses non-standard APIs for configuration. We don't know if Marvell will open source this driver, or will work on an alternative Linux driver. We believe that both approaches require a considerable amount of effort and time."