Linksys WRT1900AC inte redo för OpenWRT

Du kanske har haft en jäkla otur då jag har andra erfarenheter.

Ställd på max output så fungerar min rt-n66u sjukligt bra. Jag bor på våning 3, funkar bra att surfa via på entreplan i ett betongkomplex där man inte hör mellan lägenheterna så länge inte slagborren tas fram. Jag blir ansluten på telefonen 60-80 meter från min port utanför huset när jag kommer från garaget.

Använder en likadan i en förening tillsammans med en n56u också, rt66'an har stått på i 2 år med 1 omstart när vi gjorde om lite i nätverket.

Kort och gott, med råge längsta range jag och mina vänner sett på någon "hemmarouter" och fullt flås trots 15+ andra SSD'id i närheten, jag skulle vilja påstå att jag är svinnöjd med mina ASUS routrar.

SmallNetBuilder sa så här när det testades mot Netgear och Linksys dyr-routrar:
Once again, the 66U wins all four tests and is significantly better running uplink in both 20 and 40 MHz bandwidth modes.

Dark Knight clearly outperformed in most of our two and three-stream tests. And it's the only router in recent memory able to reach to our worst-case/lowest-signal test location on the 5 GHz band, albeit with barely-usable throughput. Still, this is an accomplishment in itself.

Enda routern som även fick länk i vad dom i sitt lab kallar "the dead zone".

Quite frankly, this is completely ridiculous. Belkin has already released the source code of this driver in a GPL tarball. Interestingly enough, the driver there has GPL license headers apparently added by Marvell.
Having seen the driver, I can say that even with full source code available it would be hard to get it accepted into OpenWrt for a number of reasons:

• Crappy non-standard ioctl interface instead of standard Linux wireless APIs.

• No support for upstream hostapd, requires an old version hacked up with a bunch of crappy patches.

• Bad code quality.

Of course not even having full source code means this thing is even less useful than it would have been with complete source code access.
It seems to me that the only sane way to get it working is to add support for the chipset to mwl8k or mwifiex-pcie, but who's going to do the work on that? Probably not Belkin...
From people with contacts at Marvell I heard that this situation is unlikely to change in the future. It seems to me that Belkin got scammed by Marvell and is now trying to push the costs of that onto their users.
I would recommend that anybody who bought this device believing Belkin's promises of OpenWrt support should either ask for a refund or sell it to somebody who doesn't care about OpenWrt support.

Källa:https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=242276#p242276