The 9590 cards are PCIe hope this helps http://www.neobits.com/compex_wle350nx_7b0000_compex_wle350nx_p9420581.html https://wikidevi.com/files/datasheets/compex/WLE350NX_DSv1.0.7.pdf
and http://www.oxfordtec.com/us/airetos-aex-ar9590-ni.html http://www.airetos.com/products/aex-ar9590-ni/
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
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On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Allan Mwenda allanitomwesh@gmail.com wrote:
Is msata okay? I know its sold as Compex msata cards
http://www.electronicdesign.com/memory/what-s-difference- between-mpcie-and-msata
answer: no. you specifically want a PCIe SSD.
l.
Hi Luke,
I've spread the news about this router and got a positive feedback, but also a huge complaint, that on http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/router/news/ it says 5x 1Gbit PHY, but QCA9531 has only 5x 100Mbit PHY.
In case the router will have just 100Mbit interfaces, then it doesn't make any sense to make such a router (nobody would be interested in it as it wouldn't add any value to the current routers as these are quite often very capable, with firmware being open-source and targetting the same price segment as the EOMA68 router).
Keep going,
-- Jan
On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 11:22 AM, dumblob dumblob@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Luke,
I've spread the news about this router and got a positive feedback, but also a huge complaint, that on http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/router/news/ it says 5x 1Gbit PHY, but QCA9531 has only 5x 100Mbit PHY.
ah, i didn't know that (and didn't check): i'll modify the page.
In case the router will have just 100Mbit interfaces, then it doesn't make any sense to make such a router (nobody would be interested in it as it wouldn't add any value to the current routers as these are quite often very capable, with firmware being open-source and targetting the same price segment as the EOMA68 router).
ask them if they can get the firmware source for the WIFI module on those gigabit WIFI integrated routers.
l.
Hi Luke,
ask them if they can get the firmware source for the WIFI module on those gigabit WIFI integrated routers.
that's rather not possible as the spreading was done through a public announcement on a web site with tens of thousands of visitors daily. I can only change the announcement and read comments. I can't somehow "ask" them for an alternative.
Anyway, do you know about any successor of QCA9531 ? I know about decent amount of deployments (matching the size, capabilities, and interfaces of such a "better" SOHO router) where 100Mbit is fine, but I know about way more deployments where 1Gbit is the point which separates the wheat from the chuff.
Keep going,
-- Jan
The cards i shared earlier are 450mbit i think. Fully libre too. I dont think you can get 1000 out of free firmware. The fastest would probably be the new broadcom AC wifi but that is a trap, the driver is libre, the firmware (which is neccesary) is not. Probably could be reverse engineered firmware-side but how hard that would be i don't know.
On 9 May 2017 14:38:46 GMT+03:00, dumblob dumblob@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Luke,
ask them if they can get the firmware source for the WIFI module on those gigabit WIFI integrated routers.
that's rather not possible as the spreading was done through a public announcement on a web site with tens of thousands of visitors daily. I can only change the announcement and read comments. I can't somehow "ask" them for an alternative.
Anyway, do you know about any successor of QCA9531 ? I know about decent amount of deployments (matching the size, capabilities, and interfaces of such a "better" SOHO router) where 100Mbit is fine, but I know about way more deployments where 1Gbit is the point which separates the wheat from the chuff.
Keep going,
-- Jan
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On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Allan Mwenda allanitomwesh@gmail.com wrote:
The cards i shared earlier are 450mbit i think. Fully libre too. I dont think you can get 1000 out of free firmware. The fastest would probably be the new broadcom AC wifi but that is a trap, the driver is libre, the firmware (which is neccesary) is not. Probably could be reverse engineered firmware-side but how hard that would be i don't know.
it's not worth the effort. it often takes years and there's no guarantee of success. it's much easier to convince qualcomm (or mediatek) to just release the source code. chris from thinkpenguin walked the atheros team (right up to director level) through the process for the AR9271, and that took *two years* from start to finish.
l.
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On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 12:38 PM, dumblob dumblob@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Luke,
ask them if they can get the firmware source for the WIFI module on those gigabit WIFI integrated routers.
that's rather not possible as the spreading was done through a public announcement on a web site with tens of thousands of visitors daily. I can only change the announcement and read comments. I can't somehow "ask" them for an alternative.
no problem - you know what i'm referring to, at least.
Anyway, do you know about any successor of QCA9531 ?
i don't... but if it's from atheros it's almost certainly likely to have ath10k... which will no longer be libre. we've had a hard enough time even *finding* libre-compatible routers, let alone gigabit ones.
I know about decent amount of deployments (matching the size, capabilities, and interfaces of such a "better" SOHO router) where 100Mbit is fine, but I know about way more deployments where 1Gbit is the point which separates the wheat from the chuff.
*sigh* yeahh i knoww....
Hi Jan,
Am Tue, 9 May 2017 12:22:04 +0200 schrieb dumblob dumblob@gmail.com:
[..] In case the router will have just 100Mbit interfaces, then it doesn't make any sense to make such a router (nobody would be interested in it as it wouldn't add any value to the current routers as these are quite often very capable, with firmware being open-source and targetting the same price segment as the EOMA68 router).
This depends on your use case. I am part of a wireless community in northern Germany. The vast majority of our routers are Ubiquiti NS M5 or TP-Link CPE510 devices (outdoor wireless devices) with one or two 100 MBit/s ethernet ports. This was never a concern for our users, since the VPN that most of our members use, requires loads of CPU power. Thus more than 10 MBit/s are rarely seen. We were always looking for devices with a faster CPU, but these do not seem to exist within the price range of approximately 100 Euros.
This is probably a quite a specific use case. Indoor users may well have a real need for gigabit router ports - I cannot tell.
Cheers, Lars
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