Le 14/01/2014 15:27, Paul Fertser a écrit : > Michel Stempin <[email protected]> writes: >> I got my MIFI-F5s @ 8.45 USD on AliBaba during Black Friday sales: the >> best price I could find for a HAME MPR-A1 on eBay is around 15 USD... > > [1] seems to be MIFI-F5, AU$11.93, [2] seems to be HAME MPR-A1, $10.94; > MPR-A1 seems to be just about $0.135 more "costly". > >>> I doubt >>> they really have a 1800mAh battery inside but at least some battery is a >>> nice bonus. >> >> They do! But I would not bet too much on the long term battery life. > > Have you measured its real capacity?
No, I stopped using them because of RAM capacity problems, see below. > >>> Also, according to [1], the bootloader is not crippled and >>> so one can avoid risking reflashing it. >> >> Yes, but the procedure to replace the crippled bootloader over telnet >> is pretty easy [2], though it still brings a potential risk of >> bricking the device. > > Well, one can relatively easily "debrick" by flashing directly to the > serial chip with some external device such as ftdi board or raspberrypi. Yes, provided you did a backup of the partitions first thing:) >>> OTOH MPR-A1 has just 16M RAM while my MIFI came with 32M, so I would >>> recommend double-checking with the seller the actual amount of RAM >>> before buying (16M is certainly considered not enough for full OpenWrt >>> experience). >> >> Today, 32MB SDRAM is mandatory if you want to do something useful with >> a router (including having a Luci web admin). > > Are you really sure that's the case? What problems will I get if I make > my home router use only 16M memory? Will it have issues > conntracking/natting 100 TCP connections? Anything else I might be > missing? And I personally do not consider running LuCI on my router > useful, I see no real advantages in this control method. Last time I tried with my 16MB MPR-L8, it was crashing just as an AP with 2 DHCP clients, not even performing heavy natting, Luci was horribly slow, eventually crashing rapidly after trying to serve the home page:( Maybe my config wasn't optimal, but it was working ok on a Poray X8 with 32 MB RAM. > >>> The image for MPR-A1 works nicely on this board so there's no sense >>> adding it separately. >> >> What about the GPIOs? > > Tested LEDs and the button, work as expected. Deeper digging for other > possible lines is yet to be performed. > @anton.rad did some further tests: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=222698#p222698 _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
