-WEB BASED GUI latency predates 2010
- Pages take in unreasonable amount of time to load.
- Traffic/connection Graphs are a joke.
- Among other things....
I don't mind dual band wax620 Openwrt firmware if it makes for a more speedy web UI for a administratively smooth experience. Any bump in performances is a plus.
Though, I'd need setup instructions.
Range is Great
I use a "breakout" setup:
-No wireless router or "3-in-1" solution
"Why?" Note: In my experience, separating the three main components greatly improved real world performance that is noticeable.
I don't really think that WAX620/WAX630 are using the same chipset, so you're probably out of luck.
If you haven't purchased it yet, why not getting WAX220? The WAX630 has IPQ807x which needs NSS to get more hardware acceleration, while WAX220 is using MT7986A which is very fast by default.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you misunderstood @frollic's intent...
The support that is referenced here is that of open source projects like OpenWrt... it currently doesn't exist, and if you want to be using FOSS firmware, buying hardware that isn't (yet, and maybe never) supported doesn't really help your situation.
I would not make that assumption. Sure, there are some amazing projects and innovation that happen in the FOSS world, but by definition, it is not a commercial enterprise and therefore the resources are entirely volunteer based. In the case of the WAX360, this would mean that someone would have to spend serious amounts of time to add support within OpenWrt for the processor and the rest of the system, then test and debug on the hardware itself to get it to a state where official support would be possible (based on the commits). Right now, the only person asking about this device is you -- so if you have the time, the skills, an the inclination, you are welcome to dive in. However, I wouldn't expect this to happen organically anytime in the near future (i.e. not for several years).
OpenWrt from that era would have only supported 802.11b/g standards, 100Mbps NICs and very limited SoC/CPUs. Then consider that from a 'software' standpoint, you'd be missing many "standard" (in modern terms) features and functions and that's to say nothing about the ancient (and now trivially cracked) encryption and of course numerous very significant security vulnerabilities that have been found in the last 2 decades.
You're probably going too far.....the device isn't supported by OpenWrt at the moment.
However the good news is, SoC itself is supported, so if someone else figured out a way to get custom code being loaded on it, it could be worked on.
However NSS is Qualcomm proprietary code so it will never be in official OpenWrt repo (same as other Qualcomm supported device), so you'll then need to go to the developement section to ask for someone to compile that for you.
My point is companies tend to drop a product once it's financially inconvenient. Sure, business hardware may last a little longer. But I doubt any of them has a near decade of updates without an ungodly amount of upfront cost, warranty contract. This is why I find this large FOSS community made software Impressive.
Also to clear up for everyone, I never bought this product with the intention of using custom firmware at all NEVER HAVE.This is a RECENT idea that is less than a week old after frustrations with the user interface. In fact, the access point is older than my experience with OpenWrt. I like to point out this is the first year I've used software outside of factory provided. The whole idea of using different devices with custom firmware was a daunting thing to me until Vilfo abandoned their supporters. Now looking back makes me grateful to them otherwise I wouldn't have had a more robust experience that is even subscription free.
