Request for Merlin Router

[netmik3]

I have a couple issues with Merlin. I want you to get paid, I don't want you to disappear and I will be sad if I ever have to use a router without your firmware. I also don't want you expanding into other routers because quality will go down like Cyanogen did.

Anways, as much as I love Asus routers. What IF Merlin builds a Merlin Router?

It would work like this:

We build an HTPC that will turn into a router. Merlin turns into a USB live disk that supports very limited specs. Eg. for version 1, only one radio will the standard. Maybe this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320136

Performance would be epic when ran in ram and a real cpu. I can actually use vpn on the router without limiting my 30 mbps to 3 mbps.

However, I dont know if those radios are limited at all when ran in infrastructure mode.

I would totally pay Merlin $97 for lifetime updates.

 

[RMerlin]

I don't have anywhere near the required knowledge to write a whole firmware on my own... 90% of this project is Asus's work, the rest is just tweaks, fixes and additions I make to their code, patches I port from other firmware projects, etc... Asus's engineers (and those who wrote the original firmware bits on which Asus based theirs) really deserve most of the credit there when it comes to all the routing and core functionality of this firmware.

 

[fritsp1989]

I have a couple issues with Merlin. I want you to get paid, I don't want you to disappear and I will be sad if I ever have to use a router without your firmware. I also don't want you expanding into other routers because quality will go down like Cyanogen did.

Anways, as much as I love Asus routers. What IF Merlin builds a Merlin Router?

It would work like this:

We build an HTPC that will turn into a router. Merlin turns into a USB live disk that supports very limited specs. Eg. for version 1, only one radio will the standard. Maybe this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320136

Performance would be epic when ran in ram and a real cpu. I can actually use vpn on the router without limiting my 30 mbps to 3 mbps.

However, I dont know if those radios are limited at all when ran in infrastructure mode.

I would totally pay Merlin $97 for lifetime updates.

While it is almost impossible to achieve such ideas, the concept is something i have been thinking about for the last 2 years.
I don't understand why there is no perfect PnP OS/Firmware for home-build routers.
I mean there are some but the hardware is most of the time not even supported or it lacks functions there are a few out there but paying literally thousands of dollars for year support is much to expensive.
If anyone would build a OS that could ROUTE and be expanded by installing SabNZBD and those kind of programs and uses full resources by that i mean like a dual-core system for all-round use.
I would be verry happy to pay 100 $ a year for support.

'' And yes i know there are LINUX Distributions out there that can act as a router ''

But that's not the point it has to be easy to manage no-hassle-config

So if this dream ever comes true please let me know haha

 

[netmik3]

Yeah other options are just too advanced. I need something just like this, little more features and much more powerful. I doubt Asus did much of this from scatch. One day we will have Merlin Router :/

Isn't much of this open source? It already runs linux. Porting it to x64 would be easy. Add in new drivers and we have it. Maybe someone can do the porting and merlin does the touch ups.

Not sure how small it could be though since HTPC cases don't fit 2 extra PCIe cards (wifi and extra gigabit card).

 

[RMerlin]

All the wireless handling is embedded all over the place in the firmware code. You would have to rewrite a major portion of the firmware to make it work on anything different from the routers for which it was developed.

 

[netmik3]

Ok thank you Merlin