Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Fwd: wndr3800 replacement

[David Lang <david@lang.hm>]

One item that has been very nice about the 3800 is the unbricking is so 
bulletproof. this looks like it has a similar capability.

also, the amazon review talks about it having a Freescale P1014 cpu

If the openwrt folks could figure out how they are going to deal with NAND 
flash, it would be nice to be able to use one of the many routers that is 
shipping with more flash (128M in the newer netgear routers would be nice)

if I were to get my hands on one, what sort of testing would you want to do to 
it to tell if it looks like it would hold up?

David Lang

On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, Dave Taht wrote:

> From: Mikael Abrahamsson
>
>
> What do you think of http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr4900 as
> wndr3800 replacement?
>
> --
> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se
>
>
> + seems to have decent openwrt support, has anyone tried one?
>
> +/- I used to like powerpc. Then apple got off it. It seems like arm
> has most of the momentum nowadays.
> +/- I am mostly in search of something that can honestly hit gigE
> forwarding rates, and run htb
> at 500Mbits/sec. Don't know if ANYTHING has that amount of oomph besides x86.
> - I care about build quality and temp range for a long lasting device.
> The wndr3800 was flown to 120k feet,
> for example and I've seen it running in 100F+ weather. tp-link does
> not strike me as devices that do that.
>
> Other opinions welcomed.
>
>