From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from uplift.swm.pp.se (swm.pp.se [212.247.200.143]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by huchra.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6FFBC21F91E for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2015 23:09:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by uplift.swm.pp.se (Postfix, from userid 501) id 76816A1; Tue, 7 Jul 2015 08:09:40 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=swm.pp.se; s=mail; t=1436249380; bh=ZnaELKHmNYzcsSN3wH6yBE8zhfG3DE4/DBQHVhejRWE=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=bgD1voKD9XRRoq/F78r3B9+vayFDfSwFyDLVulISSw9VBphZknH7eEz9eKkaBjjt1 vWElrvSCJMThQhWQj/lKATFY6j0fZkenhM6spug+3uTj/FCuvRINUUoATIaUkEV9kq MS9f3JRNIwu/Hvrk4EHT/blYi2uFv9H0W4nm3Nos= Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by uplift.swm.pp.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BCAD9F; Tue, 7 Jul 2015 08:09:40 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 08:09:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Mikael Abrahamsson To: John Yates In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) Organization: People's Front Against WWW MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] wrt1900ac v1 vs v2 X-BeenThere: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Development issues regarding the cerowrt test router project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 06:10:13 -0000 On Mon, 6 Jul 2015, John Yates wrote: > There are refurbished wrt1900ac units available quite cheap ($10 or $20 > more than wrt1200ac). I assume that they are v1 units as the v2 units have > only been on the market for a few months. From lurking on this list I get > the sense that these will support full sqm in short order (correct?). > > So what are the differences between wrt1900ac v1 and v2? Is there any > reason to pay nearly $100 more for a v2? v1 has Armada XP chipset which has packet accelerator HW in it that OpenWrt doesn't use. v2 has Armada 385 which doesn't have a packet accelerator, but instead has a much better CPU for forwarding packets. So basically if you buy a v1 you'll get a third or so in forwarding performance over the v2 with OpenWrt. With the Linksys firmware I could imagine the v1 is faster than the v2. The v1 has a fan, v2 does not. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se