wdr3600 will soon be on the can't upgrade list. The first one I bought I
made the mistake of following the open WRT instructions to upgrade to
the current firmware which contained a lockout code. Working with with
folks on the WRT IRC channel I was able to produce a flash image which
had the image preamble that made it possible to bypass the lockout image
and install openwrt.
The preamble was something like 207 bytes long but don't quote me on the
exact length. I think I still have it somewhere on my Linux partition if
you are interested.
On 2/14/2016 1:26 PM, Dave Täht wrote:
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.
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