Reading all this discussion around WRT1900ac makes me wonder of something:
- When Belkin acquired Linksys and announced WRT1900ac they made a big
noise (marketing) about "OpenWRT compatibility" so they are using the
project's name for their financial benefit, make people believe in that
to buy the hardware (nothing that stops them to do that really).
- Anyone here would then expect they engage with developers and submit
patches for the work they are doing. They kind of showed up but very
briefly and submmited a non-acceptable patch so far.
- Therefore they are subscribed to this email list seeing all this
discussion around their product and either:
- They watch it silently, laugh and ignore it (which is not good).
- They are not even aware or following this discussion (which is
not good too).
Therefore I get confused of what the next steps will be around it and
the output of this discussion will end.
Regards,
Fernando
On 07/04/2014 23:03, Peter Lawler wrote:
On 08/04/14 00:50, José Vázquez wrote:
There is something that still don't understand: why is there so much
interest in the WRT1900ac? A Wandboard quad + i.e. TL-WDR7500 is a
more exciting, more powerful and more versatile combo.
As we've seen from elsewhere in this thread, they've already submitted
some patches[1] in a non-standard format and had them knocked back.
The 'quality' of the submission does kinda make me wonder whether the
folks designing the box never in their wildest dreams expected to get
approval from Linksys's new owners to go the FLOSS path. I actually
kinda have the feeling that the Linksys engis have had an OpenWRT
capable box in their office for some time and it's the new owners that
have allowed them to productise. But I digress...
Now that I'm actually convinced that they are working on having
OpenWRT, I've started to re-read their product announcements [2].
Whilst originally I (and maybe others) expected it to have been ready
with OWRT out of the box it's pretty clear to me now that they never
intended it to be OWRT ready on launch day but at some time after
launch. This is probably why Bastian never got a response to his
request for a bunch of dev boxes[3]. Which kinda dovetails in to...
Given the quality of the patch submitted in [1], I'm expecting it'll
be OpenWRT ready and production stable say June at the earliest.
As for the TL-WDR7500, the one obvious thing the 1900ac has that it
doesn't is eSATA. Also, at the time of initial 1900ac announcement,
there was no working 5GHz on the WDR7500 [4] so interest for me to a
very large degree is in the performance in that spectrum.
Anyway, enough from me for first in the morning emails before my
coffee. Good luck to both 'teams' working on 5GHz stuff for OpenWRT.
Having a choice in hardware can only benefit everyone.
Pete.
1 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.embedded.openwrt.devel/23500
2
http://store.linksys.com/Linksys-WRT1900AC-Open-Source-Wireless-Router_stcVVproductId158014980VVcatId551966VVviewprod.htm
[Apparently they're still supporting WinXP as a host PC platform,
popcorn!]
3 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.embedded.openwrt.devel/23513
4
https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2014-March/024459.html
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