<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 March 2016 at 21:01, E.S. Rosenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:esr+linux-il@g.jct.ac.il" target="_blank">esr+linux-il@g.jct.ac.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">2016-03-08 9:10 GMT+02:00 Amos Shapira <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amos.shapira@gmail.com" target="_blank">amos.shapira@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">What exact model of TP-Link have you got?</div></blockquote></span><div>WR740N (v4.x), WR841ND (v5.x), WR1043ND (v1.x) <br></div><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I have a TP-Link AC1750 ADSL2+ modem router which is great except that OpenWRT doesn't support this specific model's WiFi well (see multiple "Notes" in <a href="https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/archer-c5-c7-wdr7500" target="_blank">https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/archer-c5-c7-wdr7500</a>)</div></div></blockquote></span><div>Did you check recently? The way I understand the notes v2 is fully supported while v1.x only the 2.4GHz Band is supported (though they do write that they don't do hardware NAT which will affect you if you have a WAN line > 300MBit/s).<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've just double checked this morning - the serial label on the router says "v1.0", which means I can't take advantage of 802.11ac with OpenWRT on it :(.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>So I'm half-heartedly on the lookout for something to run OpenWRT or VyOS on, with 1Gb ethernet and 802.11ac WiFi and which can be used to do smart and efficient routing especially over OpenVPN tunnels.</div></div></blockquote></span><div>Let us know if you find something.... in a few month OpenWRT should be releasing 16.x (Designated Driver, if they manage to stick to the roughly yearly releases) which may bring improved support for your existing device considering how they already have half decent support there is someone (and probably more then one someone) working on it....<br><br></div><div>If you want something really powerful with a very powerful OS have a look at this:<br><a href="http://routerboard.com/RB962UiGS-5HacT2HnT" target="_blank">http://routerboard.com/RB962UiGS-5HacT2HnT</a></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Perhaps my top priority, after having something that's flexible enough, is hardware which won't take more than 3W to run.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>--Amos</div></div>
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