Re: [nznog] openwrt capable routers for NZ?

I'm also quite partial to repurposing older NAS boxes ex trademe and running openwrt on them. Typically NASes have a bit more ram and flash and faster cpus which is handy. Plus you can always pop in new drives too and that is your home storage. All the better if it has a few nics. Then you can use the tplink as just the AP and keep it for the wifi. A picked up a iconnect for $20 or so and that has been running my home networking and 2 openvpn tunnels internationally without pushing more than 10%cpu for barely noticeable power consumption. On 30/01/2015 3:37 PM, "Joel Wirāmu Pauling" wrote:

I have moved to using ArcherC7's (tplink) as my preferred buy choice. They have both Ath10k and Ath9k Radios and sport 128mb of ram and 64mb flash and a Mip's CPU on the very well supported ar7xxx chipset (used in the WNDR3800 and TPLink) ath10k support is definately the best of the semi open 802.11ac chips at the moment, but is still a work in progress. Ath9k is IMHO the best 802.11n implementation out there.

I am running head openwrt branches on these( chaos calmer) with few issues.

DFS support was an issue and IIRK didn't make it into the last stable Openwrt (Attitude Adjustment) but DFS frequency sense support patches are in Head now and working.

C7's can be had for 70$ Canadian, so ~100$ NZD mark.

-Joel

On 29 January 2015 at 17:30, Jed Laundry wrote:

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Hey,

I've just created a list, and will add to it over the next few days if people find it interesting.

Of course, some are better than others - Ubiquiti actively provide forum support for OpenWRT and make installing it as simple as pushing a firmware upgrade via the WebUI, vs others who make busting out a JTAG a requirement.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JbDOrVP9c4u-gtRV06DKjWqdy4tWm9lJNpLu...

Thanks, Jed.

On 30 January 2015 at 12:47, Dave Taht wrote:

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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....

And so on. I should also point out that there are plenty of other OSes available, and that I'm opposed to a monoculture of any hardware/software combination.

See: https://gettys.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/bufferbloat-and-other-challenges/

for more details.

-- Dave Täht

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