Linksys WRT1900AC First User Reports

[snbdora]

Wondering if someone out there could able to figure out a way to create a firmware image after compiling the GPL source?

Thanks

 

[sfx2000]

Wondering if someone out there could able to figure out a way to create a firmware image after compiling the GPL source?

Thanks

The GPL drop by itself doesn't have all of the code needed to build an image - it's just the code that is GPL licensed.

 

[genseng]

Wondering if someone out there could able to figure out a way to create a firmware image after compiling the GPL source?

Thanks

See the discussions on OpenWRT forums. They've done exactly this. Source for drivers were eventually released allowing for supported OpenWRT releases.

 

[sfx2000]

Looking back... for a 4 year old architecture - it still does well... WRT's never did the sexy CTF/NAT flow accel - always brute force....

This is NAT'ed ethernet Gigabit connection... shows that WRT is...

Astro is MacBook Air 2014 with Thunderbolt Gigabit adapter - the sink is Intel NUC7i5BNB
Source is 192.168.16.104, Sink is 192.168.1.20
Current factory firmware for WRT1900ac V2...

astro:~ $ iperf3 -c 192.168.1.20 -Z
Connecting to host 192.168.1.20, port 5201
[  5] local 192.168.16.104 port 54392 connected to 192.168.1.20 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   113 MBytes   949 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   112 MBytes   940 Mbits/sec              
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   112 MBytes   940 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   108 MBytes   902 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec   112 MBytes   940 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   111 MBytes   932 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec   112 MBytes   940 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec   112 MBytes   940 Mbits/sec                
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.09 GBytes   937 Mbits/sec                  sender
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.09 GBytes   935 Mbits/sec                  receiver
iperf Done.

Upload...

astro:~$ iperf3 -c 192.168.1.20 -Z -R
Connecting to host 192.168.1.20, port 5201
Reverse mode, remote host 192.168.1.20 is sending

[  5] local 192.168.16.104 port 54390 connected to 192.168.1.20 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  76.8 MBytes   644 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec  78.4 MBytes   657 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  78.5 MBytes   659 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec  78.6 MBytes   659 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec  78.5 MBytes   659 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec  78.2 MBytes   656 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec  78.4 MBytes   658 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec  78.3 MBytes   657 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec  78.2 MBytes   656 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec  79.2 MBytes   664 Mbits/sec                
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   785 MBytes   659 Mbits/sec    0             sender
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   783 MBytes   657 Mbits/sec                  receiver

iperf Done.

And Wifi on the same setup...Which is pretty decent for an AC1900 class device...

Note that the MacBook Air 2014 is a 2-stream NIC...

astro:~ $ iperf3 -c 192.168.1.20 -Z
Connecting to host 192.168.1.20, port 5201
[  5] local 192.168.16.114 port 54603 connected to 192.168.1.20 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-1.01   sec  74.2 MBytes   618 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   1.01-2.00   sec  77.1 MBytes   650 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  79.0 MBytes   663 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec  78.5 MBytes   659 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec  75.2 MBytes   629 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec  65.8 MBytes   554 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec  67.2 MBytes   563 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec  71.8 MBytes   602 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec  72.7 MBytes   609 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec  75.9 MBytes   637 Mbits/sec                
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   737 MBytes   619 Mbits/sec                  sender
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   736 MBytes   618 Mbits/sec                  receiver

iperf Done.

astro:~$ iperf3 -c 192.168.1.20 -Z -R
Connecting to host 192.168.1.20, port 5201
Reverse mode, remote host 192.168.1.20 is sending
[  5] local 192.168.16.114 port 54605 connected to 192.168.1.20 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  61.0 MBytes   511 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec  72.4 MBytes   607 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  72.9 MBytes   611 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec  71.8 MBytes   602 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec  68.6 MBytes   575 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec  70.7 MBytes   593 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec  71.5 MBytes   600 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec  71.8 MBytes   603 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec  72.4 MBytes   608 Mbits/sec                
[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec  72.4 MBytes   607 Mbits/sec                
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   714 MBytes   599 Mbits/sec   84             sender
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   705 MBytes   592 Mbits/sec                  receiver
iperf Done.
astro:~ $