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Open source to the rescue. https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_864_ac-wifi
Problem with OpenWRT is that most people run it on garbage consumer-grade hardware.
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> The majority of differences between routers is just firmware and packaging, the guts are all the same. The firmware is the part you really have to worry about, though. But the proper solution is to simply never run the vendor's firmware on a consumer grade router, because none of them are any good at assembling and securing a Linux distribution.
> > The majority of differences between routers is just firmware and packaging, the guts are all the same. > > The firmware is the part you really have to worry about, though Professional quality routers often use ASICs to handle most of the processing, which is quite a bit faster, engineered to perform at specific workloads, and is more reliable. [1] Big iron gear are often specialized versions of blade servers. [2]…
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Just check if they are compatible with dd-wrt or openwrt and flash it with opensource build. Much easier than flashing cell phone and the open source version normally has more features also.
It's such a shame that when using OpenWRT everything runs as root...
The only good Belkin product I have ever seen is their 12 outlet power strip. As a network engineer everything they make with an Ethernet/wifi interface is complete shit. But this is not really news, D-Link, Netgear, many of their competitors are also junk.
I worked at Meraki, and institutionally we were deathly scared of dealing with that market; we were perfectly happy to stay in the enterprise market, where buyers were actually willing to pay for quality.
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> > The majority of differences between routers is just firmware and packaging, the guts are all the same. > > The firmware is the part you really have to worry about, though Professional quality routers often use ASICs to handle most of the processing, which is quite a bit faster, engineered to perform at specific workloads, and is more reliable. [1] Big iron gear are often specialized versions of blade servers. [2]…
You can see an open source version of "big iron" networking gear, both hardware [1] and software [2]. They also use ASICs for most of the work and run Linux on the host CPU (so they can be managed like normal servers). [1] https://code.facebook.com/posts/843620439027582/facebook-ope... [2] https://github.com/facebook/fboss
The chassis may be open-source but the guts of that thing is a (high-end Broadcom chip, just like everyone else.
Huh? I thought they manufacture iPhone chips and that's it. Now they buy peripherals because iphone itself won't make enough profit growth anymore to give top management the multi-million-dollar bonuses they are used to.
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Foxconn is Taiwanese like Asus, Acer, Gigabyte, MSI, MediaTek, D-Link, and HTC. Both Asus and D-Link are major router makers as well. Also fun fact, nearly all routers use the same chips from Boardcom. The majority of differences between routers is just firmware and packaging, the guts are all the same.
It's a RoC
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If you want good quality third party chargers and USB cables - buy Anker
If Anker is so great, why don't they have TÜV/CCC/UL certified power supplies?
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If Anker is so great, why don't they have TÜV/CCC/UL certified power supplies?
Process of certification is heavy on cash, need some weird certifications? Price of products will increase and customers will be hurt as a result (just to make some minor portion of customers happy).