Hi Dave, Since I appear to be one of the owners of the Archer C7 wiki page, can you give me more info about the version number/package labelling/etc. so that we can provide the info for people to identify that it's a bad one?
Thanks. Rich > On Feb 14, 2016, at 1:26 PM, Dave Täht <[email protected]> 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. > _______________________________________________ > Cerowrt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
