its a darn shame that the R7800 has a Qualcomm Atheros chipset and drivers or source files are open source for better tweaking?Vortex is an unsupported fork of RMerlin's efforts...
R7800 has a Qualcomm Atheros chipset, and not supported in any way/shape/form...
I see, so going from R7000 to the R7800 is a good jump or should I just go with the Asus RT-AC3100? is the ac3100 better or par with r7800?This is perhaps the best firmware for R7800:
Voxel's Firmware
www.voxel-firmware.com
R7800 is very capable hardware router even today. One of the best AC-class routers.
I don't care much for updates, I'm more concerned of longevity, stability, reliability and most of all performance. for both 2.5ghz and 5ghz in 10ft and 40ft distance in AC routers i do not plan to go AX any time soonIf you want Asus and longer firmware updates you have to go with AX-class router. AC-class routers won't be getting 388 firmware update. Perhaps some security updates on 386 firmware on some critical vulnerabilities. No more 386 firmware new features, on life support.
Thank you for the advice, but i did hear that Openwrt has no acceleration? Not sure what that really means or how it affects downloads or uploads? But Voxel does have acceleration.Well - with Netgear, you have a couple of options...
You have Voxel's firmware, which I'm told is quite good... it doesn't go too far off the range...
Other choice would be OpenWRT - there are community builds that are reverse engineering a lot of the QCA special sauce with ath10k and the NSS sub-system support.
OpenWRT can be a hair shirt, and not recommended for neophytes - that being said, it does leverage into the OpenWRT ecosystem and all that it offers...
One thing to note - Vortex is an illegal fork on the R7000 due to non-GPL code in the AsusWRT core SW, this is third party licensed code for Asus devices...
[Announcement] Running Asuswrt-Merlin and forks on non-Asus devices is ILLEGAL
Asuswrt-Merlin contains numerous proprietary components that are only licensed for legal use on original Asus devices. These include (but are not limited to) components from Asus themselves, Broadcom, Trend Micro and Tuxera. Using any of these components on devices for which they haven't been...www.snbforums.com
So enough about Vortex ok?
Thank you for the advice, but i did hear that Openwrt has no acceleration? Not sure what that really means or how it affects downloads or uploads? But Voxel does have acceleration.
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