Flagship AX routers

[Mike Bernardo]

Would be great if we could get openwrt running on these, with 2.5gigE and AX.

https://www.fs.com/products/115390.html

It is a BCM47622, I wonder how difficult this would be? I'd be tempted to buy one to give it a try.

Mike

> On 2021/05/21, at 04:58:46 CDT (-05:00), Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 11:26:58PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On May 18, 2021, at 10:57 PM, John Crispin <john at phrozen.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 19.05.21 00:09, Paul Spooren wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> On 5/18/21 11:52 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I noticed that there are several AX routers from TP-Link, Netgear, D-Link, etc. and some of them have even had OpenWRT ported to them.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Which of these various platforms has the most CPU/RAM/FLASH? A few are discussed, but I'm not seeing consensus on "the best one currently is this..."
>>>> 
>>>> I'm using both a Belkin RT3200 and a Linksys AX3200 (aka E8450), which are conveniently pretty much the same thing and I'm having a pretty good time. Would flash again.
>>>> 
>>>> Best,
>>>> Paul
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> this is the goto unit for AX right now ...
>>> 
>>> https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/linksys_e8450
>>> 
>>> consider using this to flash the unit
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/dangowrt/linksys-e8450-openwrt-installer
>>> 
>>>    John
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks, both of you.
>> 
>> Is that the one that only has USB 2.0, so if you wanted to add a hard drive for NAS or DLNA, you're bandwidth limited?
> 
> Yes, it got only USB 2.0, I guess because for USB 3.x you got to decide
> to either live with 2.4~2.5GHz interference (like most IPQ devices I've
> seen having USB 3.0 so far) or spend more for filters and evaluating a
> board design.
> It's definitely not meant to be a NAS, it's just an AP/Router, not even
> too useful as a modem-router (USB 2.0 port supplies only 500mAh afair).
> When using as dual-band AP, also the Gigabit Ethernet of the E8450 can
> become a bottle-kneck, UniFi 6 LR got that Aquantina 2.5GBase-T PHY
> (and also combines MT7622x with MT7915E, like the E8450).
> 
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