Flagship AX routers

[Stijn Segers]

Hi,

Mike Bernardo <mike at aion.cx> schreef op 21 mei 2021 13:46:25 CEST:
>Would be great if we could get openwrt running on these, with 2.5gigE and AX.
>
>https://www.fs.com/products/115390.html
>
>It is a BCM47622, I wonder how difficult this would be?

Oh you'd provably get the board up and running in a jiffy. I suppose the multi-gigabit PHYs might already be supported as well - not in the loop in those. The wireless? Just look at Broadcom's FOSS track record with 802.11g/n/ac. And vote with your wallet.

Stijn

> I'd be tempted to buy one to give it a try.
>
>Mike
>
>> On 2021/05/21, at 04:58:46 CDT (-05:00), Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 11:26:58PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On May 18, 2021, at 10:57 PM, John Crispin <john at phrozen.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 19.05.21 00:09, Paul Spooren wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 5/18/21 11:52 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I noticed that there are several AX routers from TP-Link, Netgear, D-Link, etc. and some of them have even had OpenWRT ported to them.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Which of these various platforms has the most CPU/RAM/FLASH? A few are discussed, but I'm not seeing consensus on "the best one currently is this..."
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm using both a Belkin RT3200 and a Linksys AX3200 (aka E8450), which are conveniently pretty much the same thing and I'm having a pretty good time. Would flash again.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Paul
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> this is the goto unit for AX right now ...
>>>> 
>>>> https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/linksys_e8450
>>>> 
>>>> consider using this to flash the unit
>>>> 
>>>> https://github.com/dangowrt/linksys-e8450-openwrt-installer
>>>> 
>>>>    John
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks, both of you.
>>> 
>>> Is that the one that only has USB 2.0, so if you wanted to add a hard drive for NAS or DLNA, you're bandwidth limited?
>> 
>> Yes, it got only USB 2.0, I guess because for USB 3.x you got to decide
>> to either live with 2.4~2.5GHz interference (like most IPQ devices I've
>> seen having USB 3.0 so far) or spend more for filters and evaluating a
>> board design.
>> It's definitely not meant to be a NAS, it's just an AP/Router, not even
>> too useful as a modem-router (USB 2.0 port supplies only 500mAh afair).
>> When using as dual-band AP, also the Gigabit Ethernet of the E8450 can
>> become a bottle-kneck, UniFi 6 LR got that Aquantina 2.5GBase-T PHY
>> (and also combines MT7622x with MT7915E, like the E8450).
>> 
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