Advance Tomato on RT-N66U

[enr00ted]

Hi there, I have a question: Can someone tell me what's the difference between the available builds for the router ?

https://advancedtomato.com/downloads/router/rt-n66u

* tomato-K26USB-1.28.AT-RT-N5x-MIPSR2-2.7-128-AIO-64K.trx
* tomato-RT-N66U_AT-RT-AC6x-2.7-128-AIO-64K.trx

From what I understand is about the driver, but what is the difference ? if any ...

Thanks.

 

[coxhaus]

If you do not find an answer hear there is some active tomato support at linksysinfo.org

 

[mstombs]

Advanced Tomato is Shibby with a revamped web gui
The 5x/6x refers to the Asus/Broadcom SDK. The SDK6 driver is needed for the AC routers, and is backwardly compatible with the N66. Early versions of the SDK6 did not perform as well as the SDK5 - but I'm sure those particular problems are no longer there. Asus/merlin have been using SDK6 for a while.
I know the Shibby SDK6 AC version does not have HW bcm nat CTF available.

 

[KevTech]

You will get better wireless range with the SDK5 build (N5X) then you will with the SDK6 build (AC6x).

 

[enr00ted]

Thank you guys, yeah I think I'll go with the SDK5, as we all know how worse got the SDK6. One question though, does the power output can be modified or is it still locked regardless the SDK ? Thanks.