On Wed, 31 Dec 2014, Kevin Everets wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 10:21:21AM -0500, Aidan Van Dyk wrote: > > Good news! I've been looking to replace my setup of hacked up aging > > WRT54GS/GL routers (ya, it's over 10 years old, high time to upgrade)... > > > > I'll have to pick up one and try. Apparently new openwrt is a lot nicer > > than my ancient version too! > > > > Am I good to assume any of the Archer C7 I'ld find now is likely a v2 > > model? > > I get annoyed by chipset changes between various numbered versions of > a router. For my next router, I was thinking of getting one that is > endorsed by the FSF as "Respects Your Freedom" (RYF Certified). The > only one that currently has that certification seems to be: > > https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/free-software-wireless-n-broadband-router-gnu-linux-tpe-nwifirouter2 > > It might be worth supporting a company that explicitly wants to > respect your freedom, instead of one that happens to for the moment > depending on what chipset they could get inexpensively. a nice idea, in principle ... totally unworkable in reality. manufacturers will change their chipsets to suit their business model, so the best you can do is pick a manufacturer that seems to support open source and go with them. qualcomm seems to be good at this with their atheros chips, so i just look for atheros-based routers that are listed as having full openwrt support: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start and most openwrt experts seem to think highly of tp-link routers. here's the openwrt page for the archer c7 v2: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr7500 rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================