A pithy note on https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/archer-c5-c7-wdr7500 - it contains a bitter "thank you" to the FCC - you can't upgrade the firmware to a third party anymore.
I can confirm this - the archer c7v2 I got off of amazon last week has firmware 3.14.3, and will not take a web upload of openwrt no matter what I tried. I also failed to get a tftp upload to work (but did not try hard enough). So this rules out the netgear wndr 4300, and tp-link archer c7v2 for future development efforts by the bufferbloat effort. It's too bad - the cake qdisc is back at a "nearly ready" state and could use some performance testing and optimization on these lower end platforms, and I'd like to get make-wifi-fast off the ground. I guess it would be good to collect a list of those companies that are engaging in whole router firmware lockdown instead of just lockdown on the radio, so we can avoid them in the future. _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
