<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">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 <br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Good to know. Although frustrating however.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 February 2016 at 18:09, Dave Taht <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave.taht@gmail.com" target="_blank">dave.taht@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So I've been getting setup again for a run against make-wifi-fast.<br>
Today I went to frys to refresh my hardware. I knew that the tp-link<br>
archer C5 was "good", so I got one... opened the box... only to find<br>
that it was a C5 v2 (only noted on the router itself), which is a<br>
complete swap-out from the well supported-by-openwrt atheros mips<br>
chipset to a broadcom and totally-unsupported by openwrt *arm* one.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/archer-c5-c7-wdr7500" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/archer-c5-c7-wdr7500</a><br>
<br>
If porshe completely swapped out the engine and all the electronics<br>
from model year to model year, and switched from diesel to gas, they'd<br>
at least somehow, make clear that "stuff had changed under the hood".<br>
<br>
Somehow, this awful habit of the home router industry has gotta change.<br>
<br>
While I look forward to benchmarking a "new" product with it's<br>
default firmware, it was not my intent to support in any way yet<br>
another model change of this sort. To add even more insult to<br>
injury... this ostensibly "new" product is running kernel 2.6.36.4<br>
according to their GPL drop.<br>
<br>
<br>
--<br>
Dave Täht<br>
Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software!<br>
<a href="https://www.gofundme.com/savewifi" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.gofundme.com/savewifi</a><br>
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