[ale] Buy your wifi routers now...

[Raylynn Knight]

The following is a list of dual band routers (bgn and an+ac) with good support from OpenWrt (Note where a version is noted make sure you get that version as many times other versions use completly different hardware):

These use Atheros or Qualcomm Atheros SOC which is best supported
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Belkin F9K1115 v2
EnGenius ESR1750
EnGenius EPG5000
Netgear R6100
TP-Link Archer C5 v1.x
TP-Link Archer C7 v2.x

These use MediaTek SOC which may still have some performance issues with 5Ghz band
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Buffalo WHR-1166D
Buffalo WSR-1166DH
D-Link DIR-810L
D-Link DIR-860L rev B1
TP-Link Archer C20i


These use Marvell SOC which works well for some but is fairly new support
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Linksys WRT1200AC
Linksys WRT1900AC v1
Linksys WRT1900AC v2

Broadcom SOC based systems supporting the an+ac bands do not have 5Ghz support in OpenWrt as the wifi driver is still closed source.  DD-Wrt does support some of them using the closed source driver.

Ray



> On Sep 2, 2015, at 9:34 AM, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 09/02/2015 09:04 AM, Alex Carver wrote:
>> Buy your wifi routers now before you can't change their firmware:
>> 
>> 
>> http://hackaday.com/2015/08/31/fcc-introduces-rules-banning-wifi-router-firmware-modification/
> suggestions on a cheap one to buy to keep as a spare??
> 
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> Paul Cartwright
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