On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 03:47:44PM -0800, Dave Taht wrote:
at the end of my talk someone asked me what routers I would recomend to try this stuff on here, and I sort of dodged the question.
If you can come up with a list of routers available here (meet me later?), I can tell you what I know about each chipset. (I have evaluated dozens of these over the last year...)
In general ath9k based gear is currently best (entirely open wifi driver), with nearly every manufacturer shipping stuff based on that. I see there is a lot of ubnt here, and most of their older products are well supported by openwrt.
There is some good work beginning on the latest round of chipsets, but by and large the firmware for 802.11ac is closed....
TP-Link are cheap and readily available here and generally supported. TL-WDR4300 is probably a cheap/easy choice for non 802.11ac. There's a TP-Link AC that's meant to be supported. But I haven't tried it. (and only in v2 - archer C7) Ben.