Hope you managed to get them cheaper than $30 
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I'm quite happy for 30 bucks actually.
No need for converter. Using that 120V plug in Pakistan at 240V without any issues.
Evidence attached
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How’s the power consumption on this thing?
Hi @frollic @sppmaster Are these guys shiping it to Europe - Germany, UK? Sorry never used ebay US for international shipments. And do you know if any duty ( probably duty is not applicable as I am speaking about 3 units) and VAT is included in the shiping cost or you need to pay it on your own inse received?
Thanks
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if you scroll back a cpl of posts, you'll be able to see the max usage.
I never shipped overseas with eBay, got a warehouse address in US, then have them ship it to EU, or to the hotel I'm staying at when I'm over.
don't think it is:
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They don't ship to Germany. eBays international shipping from the US simply doesn't do that right now because of some regulation. I ordered from Amazon.com for about double the price. But that's still cheap for what this does.
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Quantum (consumer division of Centurylink) got sold to AT&T. AT&T doesn't use these APs, so I guess they're getting dumped.
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Found the patch in @Gilly_1970’s repo. This fixes it:
Ping @daniel, please commit.
EDIT: Found the @Betonmischer’s PR. It is here: https://github.com/openwrt/iwinfo/pull/26
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related bug: https://github.com/openwrt/luci/issues/7483
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How is performance on the latest OpenWrt build?
Stock firmware is very poor. I have two Wifi 7 clients. Pixel 8 Pro and a Intel BE201 (2x2 320mhz). On either I see sporadic bandwidth when testing from within 5 feet. I've seen up to 3.7gbps but it will bounce around down to 200mbps. The AP will drop the clients, too.
I'd like to summarize progress as this topic is up to 391 posts.
You can flash between vendor and OpenWrt firmwares. Back and forth.
Power supply works for both 120 and 240 volt countries.
Vendor build:
Latest firmware (as of Oct 9, 2025): http://gcs-firmware-details-prod-002.storage.googleapis.com/W1700K/WXK001-05.00.31.06.bin
Based off: OpenWrt 21.02.1 r16325-88151b8303
Wireless stays online, but wireless performance is random and it drops clients often.
Supports MLO.
OpenWrt build:
Waiting on at least one PR: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/17869/
Open issues:
All radios supported. Radios may fail to initialize on boot. Reboot required.
1Gbe ports supported.
10GBe ports supported as of October 18, 2025.
MLO supported.
Wireless in general does not reliably stay up. (?)
Wireless 6Ghz requires tweaking country database.
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All radios are supported, but 6GHz is still broken in US (and maybe other countries) due to regdb being incorrect. Functionality is greatly subject to MT76 as Wi-Fi 7 support is rapidly changing.
The two 10G PHYs still do not work even with the PCS driver back ported, reasons unknown at this point.
Here’s a little perspective.
This is the best, most performant WiFi 7 device compatible with Openwrt currently available. Which arguably makes it the best router device period.
- 10G ports currently don’t work but is actively being looked at and (I believe) will be figured out soon. Hardly matters if you are using this as an AP.
- 6Ghz in the US requires a trivial patch to enable. The problem is the stance taken by maintainers that is wildly user-unfriendly.
- MLO can be turned on by editing files (no Luci support yet) but doesn’t work well. My iPhone won’t connect and keeps prompting for password.
- MT76 is currently the most mature WiFi 7 driver and will only get better.
- Wireless works incredibly well and is absolutely stable.
- With 4x4 160mhz 5Ghz and 320mhz 6Ghz, clients and other routers can trivially connect with multi-gigabit link speeds. Real world performance impossible to test without 10G ports working, but even topping out at a gigabit, this is absolutely phenomenal for wireless.
- Even with ax clients, latency is significantly better.
When you think about how this device is made by a low-profile Taiwanese OEM supplying a minor US broadband provider, utilizes a chip that nobody has heard of, and to top it off, is not actually commercially available but is dumped on eBay for cheap because performance sucks, it’s a wild tale.
I’ve tried to comprehensively flag all the remaining bugs and quirks, but don’t get me wrong. They are comparatively minor, especially compared to the Banana Pi BPI-R4, where as far as I can ascertain, the wireless is completely broken.
to @andrewjlamarche for doing the heaviest lifting getting us to this point.
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I’d hold off mentioning the coding jesus until he commits a certain PR…
what is the status of Asus WiFi 7 with openwrt ?
I think you are going too far and I do not like it, or maybe you are right: competition for free developers' time and their skills? :(((
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Been paying attention to this for a minute and bought two units, one for now and as a spare.
I did manage to flash one of them and my experience is reflective of what's already been said mostly.
Couldn't get 6ghz working right away, it was actually missing from the radio2 drop down but through a combination of setting security, setting the radios right for radio 0/1 and changing countries I did manage to get 6ghz visible on radio2 trough LuCI. My S23 now sees the AP as WIFI 6E and seems to be able to easily saturate the 1gb link. I haven't bought an AP since my Unifi AP-AC Pro so this was impressive to me.
What I find interesting is the 10G ports do make a link and openwrt seems to try to transmit packets but all packets received are errored. Not sure if this is new info
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