[Cerowrt-devel] Always in search of the next gen

[Cerowrt-devel] Always in search of the next gen

[Dave Taht]

These looked interesting:

http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/made-in-china-2-4G-5GHz_1891823798.html

And I note that the netgear X4 HAS made a public GPL drop in the last
few weeks (thx, bruce, for the heads up). It is openwrt based (linux
3.4 with a backport of fq_codel) and it does not look too hard to
bring it up to snuff.

I recently did a test of their factory firmware at 180mbits with their
QoS feature, and it sucked. It seemed to work ok at lower bandwidths.
I fear they messed something up, but havent had time to verify with
something I understood.

(basically, you could set the rate right for an upload, and for a
download, but no matter what I tried, it bloated up when doing both
simultaneously)

Anyway, as this is the fastest hardware out there I know of, it is
presently the leading candidate for a next generation cerowrt - but
there seem to be some major blobs in here....


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Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Always in search of the next gen

[Zhang Wenjie]

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> 在 2014年11月23日，上午1:49，Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> 写道：
> 
> These looked interesting:
> 
> http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/made-in-china-2-4G-5GHz_1891823798.html <http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/made-in-china-2-4G-5GHz_1891823798.html>

But it seems that it uses ar9341 which only supports 802.11b/g/n
> 
> And I note that the netgear X4 HAS made a public GPL drop in the last
> few weeks (thx, bruce, for the heads up). It is openwrt based (linux
> 3.4 with a backport of fq_codel) and it does not look too hard to
> bring it up to snuff.
> 
> I recently did a test of their factory firmware at 180mbits with their
> QoS feature, and it sucked. It seemed to work ok at lower bandwidths.
> I fear they messed something up, but havent had time to verify with
> something I understood.
> 
> (basically, you could set the rate right for an upload, and for a
> download, but no matter what I tried, it bloated up when doing both
> simultaneously)
> 
> Anyway, as this is the fastest hardware out there I know of, it is
> presently the leading candidate for a next generation cerowrt - but
> there seem to be some major blobs in here....
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dave Täht
> 
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Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Always in search of the next gen

[Dave Taht]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Zhang Wenjie <wei.a.yang@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 在 2014年11月23日，上午1:49，Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> 写道：
>
> These looked interesting:
>
> http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/made-in-china-2-4G-5GHz_1891823798.html
>
>
> But it seems that it uses ar9341 which only supports 802.11b/g/n

There are multiple conflicting needs at play here. the first Is to
find a router that is more readily available than the wndr3800, that
we can continue to experiment on in the make-wifi-fast context. At the
moment the ath9k is the best candidate chip to hack on. I would like
to find a dual radio device even smaller and cheaper than the one
above to do that work with, but still of high build quality and
overall design.

Then there are needs for something faster as a home gateway with sqm.
Things like the edgerouter dont compare to a low end atom here, and
the only things in between in terms of cpu capability are things like
the linksys ac1900 and the x4.

Then there are desires for 802.11ac, which, due to the mostly
unhackable firmware available at this point is pretty frustrating to
try and move the industry forward with.

A fourth need, dominating all these needs overall, is sustainable
funding and support from those in the industry that would like to be
making better routers.


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