OpenWrt "Chaos Calmer" 15.05 released [LWN.net]

OpenWrt "Chaos Calmer" 15.05 released

Posted Sep 13, 2015 17:27 UTC (Sun) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750)
In reply to: OpenWrt "Chaos Calmer" 15.05 released by michel
Parent article: OpenWrt "Chaos Calmer" 15.05 released

It depends on the definition of old. Old can also equal to rock stable, new often equals to not-so-stable even on vendor tweaked firmwares.

I'm very happy with http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wndr3800 - using for 40MHz 5GHz, but I'm generally satisfied with ~100Mbit/s wifi-to-wifi device speeds.

Also, ac is not the panacea for wifi. In practical terms, it's much more complicated, and ac doesn't have that much that isn't at least optional on n on the spec level. The speed benefits in normal use cases like person's home are often theoretical.

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OpenWrt "Chaos Calmer" 15.05 released

Posted Sep 14, 2015 8:29 UTC (Mon) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942) [Link]

> The speed benefits in normal use cases like person's home are often theoretical.

The practical benefits in my experience could be negative. A Linksys router bought in spring 2014 worked slower with ac than with n against a macbook and a Linux laptop with Intel wifi card. That was with either stock firmware or later updates. Finally I got ASUS RT-AC66U that really showed a difference with ac and where I could install dd-wrt. Still even with that I had to install an external directional antenna so backing up video files from SD cards to a home server over WiFi would be just a little bit slower than copping to a local notebook drive.