Adding additional USB wifi radios

[ReaverRui]

Perhaps this is more a feature request, but as it is my understanding, the firmware is built upon OpenWrt/Linux (for which drivers are available). Would it be possible to add an additional WIFI radio via USB stick to AsusWrt-Merlin? I know it gets a little complex because you have to consider a plethora of chipsets (not to mention performance probably not great) but if there was some way for a user to install the specific driver and then it loads an GUI for setting and connection stats monitoring. Otherwise you could make settings changes via command-line.

I have a RT-AC68U and do VR/tablet gaming streaming, but i would like to limit the 5GHz AC connection to 1 stream device at a time, but still have other devices, on 5GHz N network, which i have a stick for.

 

[ColinTaylor]

... but as it is my understanding, the firmware is built upon OpenWrt/Linux (for which drivers are available).

No it isn't based on those, it's based on Asuswrt which is completely different.

 

[sfx2000]

Perhaps this is more a feature request, but as it is my understanding, the firmware is built upon OpenWrt/Linux (for which drivers are available).

AsusWRT is not based on OpenWRT - it's more related to Tomato and DD-WRT, but that fork happened a long time ago.

Moderm AssuWRT builds on the chipset SDK/HDK's - Broadcom's HND platform for most of the modern Asus routers..

 

[sfx2000]

I have a RT-AC68U and do VR/tablet gaming streaming, but i would like to limit the 5GHz AC connection to 1 stream device at a time, but still have other devices, on 5GHz N network, which i have a stick for.

You might want consider some of the newer tri-radio models - you could set up and dedicate an SSID for your purposes..