[OpenWrt-Devel] New target IPQ8074 / Asus-ax89x(u)

[Robert Marko]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 23:11, Joel Wirāmu Pauling <joel at aenertia.net> wrote:

> Considering that there are a heap of lesser boxes from the likes of
> Cisco/Aruba/Dlink/Asus themselves that are far inferior selling well above
> the 1500$ mark.
>
I dont take Cisco and Aruba prices seriously.

>
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 11:09, Joel Wirāmu Pauling <joel at aenertia.net>
> wrote:
>
>> It's 800$NZD not sure of what the conversion is.
>>
>> BUT
>>
>> It's got Dual 10Gbit ports ; so if you factor going the DIY route on x86
>> boxes (which is what I have been forced to do for 10G capable for the last
>> few years), Power consumption, and wifi6 - it's actually not an
>> unreasonable price point for what you get.
>>
> Its roughly 400EUR, a lot for a consumer device.
Its a good device, but for development, it's too expensive since there is a
chance of bricking it.
I am waiting for a cheap(100-ish EUR) IPQ807x board since I don't see
getting a test one at work for a while and I cant afford 300+ EUR myself.

>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 10:45, Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 400€ for a router... little too much for now... at least the firmware
>>> is openwrt based so ASUS should provide GPL.
>>>
>>> Il giorno gio 26 mar 2020 alle ore 22:42 Robert Marko
>>> <robimarko at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 22:39, Joel Wirāmu Pauling <joel at aenertia.net>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi all,
>>> >>
>>> >> I received my ax89x yesterday and have added a stub wiki page for it
>>> here:
>>> >>
>>> >> https://openwrt.org/toh/asus/rt-ax89x
>>> >>
>>> >> There is a published build chain for the device from ASUS - I haven't
>>> tried compiling it.
>>> >> I've done some preliminary poking and opened the case up - dumped the
>>> bootlog.
>>> >>
>>> >> Very interesting device and likely a good target for 10Gbit and Wifi6
>>> work.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Looks great, just that the price tag is painful.
>>> > Its HK01 reference board based, a lot of stuff has been upstreamed but
>>> a whole more is missing for IPQ807x upstream.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> -Joel
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