Since specific feedback was requested on this hardware --
I've been running our household on four Archer A6 v3 units in AP-only mode for the past week, and it seems solid. Initially on Petr's RC2 spins, but since yesterday on official RC3.
Flashing from factory to RC2 went without any problems on the first four units, and I just flashed a new factory-fresh unit directly to RC3 without issue. Also, `sysupgrade -n` on the first four units from RC2 to RC3 worked fine.
Boot, reboot work reliably and do not have any unexpected delays or errors. Even `halt` works and appears to successfully soft-poweroff the device.
All Ethernet ports (lan1-4, wan) work at 1Gbps and have the expected labels. I've been using VLAN filtering over the DSA bridge successfully. The only problems I've encountered in this area are LuCI quirks that I will report separately.
2.4Ghz and 5Ghz radios work more or less okay. The only issues I've encountered are reminiscent of my experience with the EAP235-Wall (lack of DFS; timeouts after repeated configuration changes, particularly when unsupported frequencies are selected) so I'm pretty sure they're mt76 issues rather than anything specific to this board. Once a supported configuration is up and running, it's been solid.
Untested: serial header, LED configuration, wireless security other than WPA2-PSK, recovery from bootloader.
If there's anything else that would be helpful for me to test with this board in particular, let me know. I'm saving a sixth unit in the shrink-wrap in case it would be helpful to test flashing from factory prior to release.
Power is the usual 12v center-positive 5.5mm x 2.1mm barrel connector. Pretty nice hardware for 50 bucks. -Nathan
Tested-by: Nathan Lutchansky <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
