Use this thread for comments on the review.
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wire...900ac-ac1900-dual-band-wireless-router-review
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wire...900ac-ac1900-dual-band-wireless-router-review
What "issues" specifically?but the lan to wan issues are annoying.
Science experiments ... or how marketing deals with product saturation; invent and hype a new standard. Need that revenue stream to grow-grow-grow!If you have a router you like and it is doing the job for you, leave it be. New routers, especially AC, tend to be science experiments these days. Let someone else debug them.
That wouldn't change the results. The WD drive can do easily over 100 MB/s.Would like to see storage performance with SSD drive instead of mechanical drive.
Interesting start.
If future firmwares are less buggy then the current competitors, then this router should be a better choice. Plus we are now dealing with Marvell chipset, so there is room for improvement down the road. Wheres Broadcom has peaked out in benchmarks.
Would like to see storage performance with SSD drive instead of mechanical drive.
Maybe I missed it in the thread. Where is OpenWRT for this DOA?FYI the openWRT side of this router is apparently DOA & likley will never happen: https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2014-April/024589.html, e.g. don't hold your breath for *any* third-party firmwares.
I'll give it a quick try. Router was tested with defaults, which is with no QoS engaged.Regarding the WAN-LAN throughput. I'd like to see a benchmark once QOS is turned on as far as I know HW acceleration does not work once QOS is in use.
There must be a reason why the throughput is much worse on the Linksys, maybe it is because they are not using some sort of HW NAT acceleration.
It would be cool if you could try that and see if this makes a difference.
Agreed... let's remember the state of the AC68 & R7000's firmwares when they were released... heck let's remember the state of Asus's current f/w! If the wrt1900 has a stable, non-rebooting & 'every feature working' f/w at release then they're 'ahead' of the pack as far as I'm concerned (with the exception of an R7000 running dd-wrt). FYI the openWRT side of this router is apparently DOA & likley will never happen: https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2014-April/024589.html, e.g. don't hold your breath for *any* third-party firmwares.
As a side-note, it's slightly frustrating that pre-ordering this unit resulted in a 3 day delay of receiving it (I could've just hopped over to BestBuy and grabbed one?? ).
Maybe I missed it in the thread. Where is OpenWRT for this DOA?
If you click on the 'next message' link you'll start to see openWRT devs response to Belkin's attempt to submit patches to the code base... which are basically "You can't do that" and "GTFO"... This thread will help you read between the lines:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=256298&start=45
If you click on the 'next message' link you'll start to see openWRT devs response to Belkin's attempt to submit patches to the code base... which are basically "You can't do that" and "GTFO"... This thread will help you read between the lines:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=256298&start=45
What "issues" specifically?
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