[Rpm] "Market" information about CPE from residential ISPs

[Will Hawkins]

Really appreciate that! Thank you!

Will

On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 5:53 PM Rich Brown <richb.hanover at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Jun 14, 2022, at 5:35 PM, Will Hawkins via Rpm <rpm at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
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> Does anyone know where we could get information on the most common
> hardware configurations for CPEs?
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> OpenWrt has an automated build machine that creates a binary on-the-fly, pulling in a list of requested packages. The package selection isn't necessarily interesting for your study, but the variation of manufacturer/models could be.
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> You can see the stats at: https://sysupgrade.openwrt.org/stats
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> There are all kinds of things "wrong" with this data:
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> - It's not used (yet) by the general OpenWrt community
> - This server use is skewed toward developers
> - Those people may have more powerful machines
> - What the heck is going on with the Linksys_e8450?
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> But maybe it's a useful quick-look at various semi-popular models. You can look up device specs in the OpenWrt Table of Hardware: https://openwrt.org/toh/start
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> Have fun!
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> Rich