kong dd-wrt downloads gone?

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bushant
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 16:23    Post subject: Reply with quote
dTX wrote:
@bushant by any chance you have a saved copy of the 38580M f/w to share? <Kong> spoiled us with that "ddupd" feature and i guess finding any of the latest versions will be a challenge to say the least.


I figured clonevince would have it by now, but it's not there yet.
yep here ya go.

38580-2-5-19-dd-wrt.v24-K3_AC_ARM_STD.bin

38580-2-5-18dd-wrt.v24-K3_AC_ARM_STD.bin.md5

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 16:43    Post subject: Reply with quote
@bushant very much appreciated.I was worry that i won't be able to find one.Thanks again,i mean it. Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 19:13    Post subject: Reply with quote
there also was a release directory and i was trying to check what the latest blessed by him release was, not test.


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 21:27    Post subject: Reply with quote
Huge bummer that Kong is leaving. The fact he actually tests his builds made them a much better choice for those of us who have router models he supports.

I actually chose the AC68U (TM1900) I have five of in part because of Kong's support (the other reason was because I could get $100+ routers for $60 thanks to T-Mobile)

It will be a while before I consider replacing them with WPA3 / wifi6 capable hardware, so I can stick with my current 35030M build that has proven stable for me for a long time barring any major security issue. If it wasn't for Kong's builds I would have switched to OpenWRT to get more stability than DD-WRT's perpetual beta. Next time I guess I won't have a choice.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 1:25    Post subject: Reply with quote
slice1900 wrote:
If it wasn't for Kong's builds I would have switched to OpenWRT to get more stability than DD-WRT's perpetual beta. Next time I guess I won't have a choice.
Not sure if the T-Mobile devices would have issues with FreshTomato, but there is that option as well. Not having every Broadcom device at my disposal kind of leaves me 'helpless' to do anything of merit for other folks :-/
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 2:39    Post subject: Reply with quote
This might eventually drive the price of Kong specific devices up
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 15:31    Post subject: Reply with quote
BR07H3R wrote:
This might eventually drive the price of Kong specific devices up



Why? Even if you accept the premise that third party router firmware has ANY affect on router prices (I don't) then losing the Kong option would make these routers LESS valuable and their price would fall.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 29, 2019 1:57    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm saying like a long time when these builds are old enough to be considered vintage and so are the routers. Long after retirement type of thing. You're probably right no effect ever
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 29, 2019 11:42    Post subject: Reply with quote
kernel-panic69 wrote:
ninjadawg wrote:
This thread seems to have something to do with this topic
https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=319096

Sad news for this community.

Let's see whether Kong might hop back to DD-WRT... Smile

OTOH, what is the quality of OpenWRT in general? If it's really better and with more dedicated developers, maybe DD-WRT should join the project?

The whole DD-WRT repository is supporting a lot of routers, notably old ones. OpenWRT is a newer project.


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 29, 2019 11:55    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think one of the problems is the lack of support for broadcom routers, OpenWRT can not use the closed source broadcom drivers to which BS has access to.

There is an opensource broadcom driver but I do not know the quality of that

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 29, 2019 17:18    Post subject: Reply with quote
egc wrote:
I think one of the problems is the lack of support for broadcom routers, OpenWRT can not use the closed source broadcom drivers to which BS has access to.

Correct and here further info: https://openwrt.org/meta/infobox/broadcom_wifi
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 30, 2019 1:44    Post subject: Reply with quote
There aren't too many Linux distros where the 6.x STA driver isn't available AFAIK. What isn't available is the proprietary nas and wlconf source or binaries. Debian in particular seems to have figured out how to make hostapd work....
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 31, 2019 22:31    Post subject: Reply with quote
Will a newer BS build have comparable performance to the last Kong build? Is SFE the same?
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 01, 2019 21:38    Post subject: Reply with quote
Links are up again from Kong
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 02, 2019 1:36    Post subject: Happy Happy Happy Reply with quote
mac913 wrote:
Links are up again from Kong


And that makes me very happy))

Maybe it's just to have us download his last creation before shutting it down for good... who knows
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