i have recently purchased D-link dir-x1560 which has good space and ram and also mesh router.
Hope some body help or is there any wip?
please guide
thanks
Chances for that are just about zero.
i know but if some, its broadcom and somemore mesh.
No USB ...
Yes no usb, so does it make any difference.
Can you suggest me best router of the same range supported by openwrt.
At a reasonable price i have only found KuWfi Tenbay WR1800K WIFI-6 but only 16M SPI Flash
5 * Lan + USB3
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/kuwfi-tenbay-wr1800k-wifi-6/99090/3
i have replaced SPI with a 32M MX25L25635E
Likely never, but interestingly the Asus AX3000 also uses the BCM6750 but has double both the ram and flash memory as that D-link. It's supported by Asuswrt-Merlin which is a solid firmware. As far as OpenWrt, there is nothing with a strong CPU and USB 3.0 that is supported by OpenWrt yet, who know when, probably it's a ways off.
I generally agree with the comments on the AX3600, but would have a slightly more positive outlook.
The price is hard not to like: €69 delivered in Europe, or closer to €80 since the VAT change in July.
I've never opened it up or used a UART with it. The JS-paste-into-browser method for initial SSH bring-up is not ideal (or guaranteed into future factory firmware revisions, I guess), but is trivial and 100% local compared to the OpenWRTInvasion method needed for MediaTek Xiaomi routers.
During working on a WDS few bugs recently, I soft-bricked and recovered using the built-in blind TFTP recovery a number of times - again, no UART needed.
Many of the open issues seem to be generic ath11k or IPQ807x things, rather than AX3600-specific.
robimarko's OpenWRT branch is good enough to be my live home router now. The known bugs feel close to being solved (but that is often the perpetual case with these things - ha!), and are often about back-porting things from Linux mainline - which is where OpenWRT itself will be going in good time. Acceleration/offload is only a nice-to-have at my WAN speed, but also seems to be making good progress.
I do wish it had USB...
4 Likes
Hi
I was searching for AX routers that are supported by OpenWRT and found that Ubiquiti UniFi 6 Lite/LR are marked as supported AX in 2.4 GHz https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_16128?dataflt[WLAN+5.0GHz*~]=ax
While official web site says that there is no OFDMA in 2.4 GHz.
Does AX possible without OFDMA or it's just a mistake in ToH?
Is there any AX device currently supported by OpenWRT (even by snapshot) with AX in 2.4 GHz?
Thanks @sumo and @dspalu32 for the inputs.
Think I'll wait till 11ax is officially supported in OpenWrt and decide which to buy.
Cheers.
Edit: While we are at it, does anyone have a comparison page of these 2 models? (Xiaomi AX6000 vs Linksys E8450) Tried googling to no avail... understandable since their target markets don't quite match. But I can't even seem to able to find a specsheet for IPQ5018 (dual core A53 1GHz?, + 1GHz NPU on AX6000)
Here's MediaTek's page for MT7622 (dual core A53 1.36GHz): MediaTek | MT7622
The
Yes, and this is true. 2.4GHz is provided by MT7615-like hw integrated in MT7622 SoC, and that's 4T4R 802.11bgn (potentially VHT rates could work on 2.4 GHz, but I think this is neither supported by the driver nor intended in the 802.11 spec). So for sure HE rates on 2.4GHz are not possible with the UniFi 6 LR.
5 Likes
Is there a chance for Linksys MR7350 to be supported? I'm looking for not-to-expensive replacement (using tp-link archer c2 v3 now).
total test: https://github.com/neheb/openwrt/commit/14ccaad68c3cf9c91bfacf69b45ba25c7cf3cedb
It doesn't work right. ethernet mac address is randomly generated. wifi does not come up.
No idea what's wrong honestly.
edit: factory image is wrong as well.
1 Like
If anyone's adventerous, Amazon have a Rockspace AX1800 router for $30.
Don't forget to check the coupon checkbox, to receive the discount.
EDIT: Apparently Broadcom - https://fcc.report/FCC-ID/2AUA9-RQZY004
Hello Jeff1,
can you tell me how you get root access on the l e7350,
did you find any uart connector on it.
Thanks
It looks like neither Belkin RT3200 nor Linksys E8450 is on sale in EU (checked here), maybe it was rebranded for EU?
1 Like
No, the availability in Europe is just really low. (I managed to get RT3200-UK in June, but E8450 has not been much available anywhere. The UK version also has the "normal" German/Nordic plug.)
See Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin-Wireless-Dual-Band-Streaming-Parental/dp/B08L4PJKKB
(curiously, it exists in the UK, but not in the current EU area 
)
I purchased Belkin RT3200 from Amazon UK and updated it with firmware from https://github.com/dangowrt/linksys-e8450-openwrt-installer.
Working beautifully! With WPA3-SAE security and super-fast 802.11ax radio this is the best AP I ever had.
2 Likes
BELKIN RT3200 unavailable in France and high price 129.99 £ / 152.74 Euros compared to the Tenbay mentioned above
I suspect stock firmware is doing something really dodgy GDPR-wise so they are just not selling it in EU.
1 Like