I have half a dozen c7 v2 bought over the last 6 months - they are still atheros. I have not touched the cheaper c5's Good to know. Although frustrating however. On 3 February 2016 at 18:09, Dave Taht wrote: > So I've been getting setup again for a run against make-wifi-fast. > Today I went to frys to refresh my hardware. I knew that the tp-link > archer C5 was "good", so I got one... opened the box... only to find > that it was a C5 v2 (only noted on the router itself), which is a > complete swap-out from the well supported-by-openwrt atheros mips > chipset to a broadcom and totally-unsupported by openwrt *arm* one. > > https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/archer-c5-c7-wdr7500 > > If porshe completely swapped out the engine and all the electronics > from model year to model year, and switched from diesel to gas, they'd > at least somehow, make clear that "stuff had changed under the hood". > > Somehow, this awful habit of the home router industry has gotta change. > > While I look forward to benchmarking a "new" product with it's > default firmware, it was not my intent to support in any way yet > another model change of this sort. To add even more insult to > injury... this ostensibly "new" product is running kernel 2.6.36.4 > according to their GPL drop. > > > -- > Dave Täht > Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software! > https://www.gofundme.com/savewifi > _______________________________________________ > Cerowrt-devel mailing list > Cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel >