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Routertech future
Hello,
I find the idea of routertech firmware brilliant - but why there are no new releases since 2012?
The list with compatible routers is also very small.
Is there any alternative to routertech which is still in development?
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I find the idea of routertech firmware brilliant - but why there are no new releases since 2012?
The list with compatible routers is also very small.
Is there any alternative to routertech which is still in development?
Regards
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Re: Routertech future
Hellofkdjh3tkge wrote:Hello,
Because there has been no need for a new release. AR7 routers are a dying breed - very old hardware, that has long been superseded by newer chipsets.fkdjh3tkge wrote:I find the idea of routertech firmware brilliant - but why there are no new releases since 2012?
The firmware covers a very broad range of AR7 routers.fkdjh3tkge wrote:The list with compatible routers is also very small.
For the AR7 platform, I doubt it - but perhaps OpenWRT.fkdjh3tkge wrote:Is there any alternative to routertech which is still in development?
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Re: Routertech future
Ok thx.
OpenWrt is not for ADSL/VDSL modemrouters.
But there are no cheap modemrouters available on which I could install routertech.
Is there a modemrouter like ther WRT54GL was it for OpenWrt. OpenWrt grew up with the WRT54GL - it was cheap and worldwide available.
Can you tell me a ADSL/VDSL modemrouter which is cheap and can be bought worldwide and is routertech-compatible?
OpenWrt is not for ADSL/VDSL modemrouters.
But there are no cheap modemrouters available on which I could install routertech.
Is there a modemrouter like ther WRT54GL was it for OpenWrt. OpenWrt grew up with the WRT54GL - it was cheap and worldwide available.
Can you tell me a ADSL/VDSL modemrouter which is cheap and can be bought worldwide and is routertech-compatible?
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I don't think anyone makes new AR7 routers anymore. Maybe you can find old used ones on eBay. You'll have to look at the list of supported routers and then do eBay searches on them ...fkdjh3tkge wrote:Can you tell me a ADSL/VDSL modemrouter which is cheap and can be bought worldwide and is routertech-compatible?
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Re: Routertech future
Why you do not choose one or two popular ADSL/VDSL routers and try to adapt routertech-firmware to them?
This would be a comparable success like OpenWrt was for the WRT54GL.
This would be a comparable success like OpenWrt was for the WRT54GL.
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Can't be done (at least, not easily). RT firmwares are too tied to the AR7 platform.fkdjh3tkge wrote:Why you do not choose one or two popular ADSL/VDSL routers and try to adapt routertech-firmware to them?
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Re: Routertech future
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=19629Is there any alternative to routertech which is still in development?
What are the advantages of new chipsets over the AR/?
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AR7 is an obsolete platform.champajuan wrote:What are the advantages of new chipsets over the AR/?
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First of, thanks to Routertech developers! I got a Paradyne DSL router a while ago that had just awful stock firmware, and Routertech runs great on it. I'm not using the wifi on it any more, but when I did it even managed to add WPA to what had been a WEP-only access point. It's still running my parent's DSL and it's very stable.
As for newer Routertech *for* AR7... I love running "latest and greatest" but must admit the current firmware is feature-complete and bug-free.
I do agree with the sentiment -- my parents have plain o'l ANSI DSL (1.5mbps), their Routertech modem stays up for months (it only goes down if their power goes out, or the ISP goes down... it probably totals single-digit minutes per year.) But my area's been upgraded to VDSL/VDSL2. Which sounds great, but when I looked online I found *NO* VDSL/VDSL2 modems that were inexpensive and stable. They were ALL and I mean ALL either 1) A business-oriented Cisco or the like, packed with features and stable but VERY expensive. or 2) Inexpensive but reportedly unstable as all hell. Last I looked, reviews indicated NONE of the inexpensive VDSL/VDSL2 modems can just bring up a link and do either NAT or transparent bridge (so a different router does NAT) without randomly crashing multiple times per week. Sad.
Routertech firmware is based directly on the TI AR7 firmware. It runs linux, but the DSL drivers are a "binary blob" so there's no way to look at or modify it to operate newer DSL chipsets. (This is also true for the wifi, but Linux supports most newer wifi chips on it's own anyway). Lots of TI-specific other software to manipulate the DSL state too. Basically if you started moving Routertech to another model, you'd have a web interface, scripting to care of the supplying the username, password, etc., but nothing to actually operate the DSL chip itself (just like DD-WRT etc. have.)Why you do not choose one or two popular ADSL/VDSL routers and try to adapt routertech-firmware to them?
As for newer Routertech *for* AR7... I love running "latest and greatest" but must admit the current firmware is feature-complete and bug-free.
I do agree with the sentiment -- my parents have plain o'l ANSI DSL (1.5mbps), their Routertech modem stays up for months (it only goes down if their power goes out, or the ISP goes down... it probably totals single-digit minutes per year.) But my area's been upgraded to VDSL/VDSL2. Which sounds great, but when I looked online I found *NO* VDSL/VDSL2 modems that were inexpensive and stable. They were ALL and I mean ALL either 1) A business-oriented Cisco or the like, packed with features and stable but VERY expensive. or 2) Inexpensive but reportedly unstable as all hell. Last I looked, reviews indicated NONE of the inexpensive VDSL/VDSL2 modems can just bring up a link and do either NAT or transparent bridge (so a different router does NAT) without randomly crashing multiple times per week. Sad.
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It is sad - but there are reasonably priced VDSL* that are well supported by 3rd party firmware (e.g., those supported by Merlin firmware or Tomato).
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