[shawn01]

hello everyone i am about to purchase a router and before i spend the money i was hoping someone here could answer a quick question for me.

the router i am going to get is the: linksys ACS1900-RM2

now i want to make sure that this router is capable to flash dd-wrt firmware (which is obviously why i am here) but what is throwing me off is "RM2".

everything i see is for the linksys ACS1900 but it never mentions -RM2

now i know there are 2 versions of this router and 2 firmwares for version 1 and version 2.

Can someone tell me please if RM2 just means version 2 and is the RM2 model able to take dd-wrt firmware?

thank you all so much for your time and the work you all do here is truly amazing.

-shawn

[egc]

If you follow the forum guidelines:
https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=324087

We can help you better.

I transferred this thread to the right forum.

I personally would not buy a Linksys WRT router but instead a Netgear R7800, but that is just my opinion.

[shawn01]

thanks for the transfer...i was looking at the netgear r7800 but the thing that threw me off was the fact that netgear has put some things in to block the installation of custom firmware and i read that there are workarounds such as TFTP but that people have said that it doesn't always work etc etc.

but i will definitely look more into it.

so does anyone know about this RM-2 thing and if is in fact the 2nd version of the linksys ACS1900 router?

[SurprisedItWorks]

I use the Linksys WRT1900ACSv2, which in spite of the issues with the series is the best of that Linksys WRTblah lot, and there is nothing anywhere on the router resembling the -RM2 thing. I've never heard of the nomenclature you describe. Could it perhaps signal a variant aimed at some market where in the local language -RM2 means version 2?

BTW, I have set up dd-wrt on six of the WRT1900ACSv2 routers and still maintain five of them. I am convinced it is the best (reasonably fast and least troublesome) of the WRTblah series, even though it does have some issues (needs a fan, key LEDs fade over time, uses binary-blob Linksys wifi drivers that spontaneously take down wifi maybe once a month on two of my five). But if I were starting over and hadn't invested all the time and energy into learning its quirks and their workarounds, I'd go for the R7800, following the flashing procedure linked in @egc's signature above. The R7800 is as close as the dd-wrt community has to a standard router and is unofficially the primary development router for the dd-wrt team, so as dd-wrt changes and evolves, things just work on the R7800. It's also clearly faster than the WRT1900ACSv2 and supposedly has better wifi range as well. About the only WRT1900ACSv2 feature I'd really miss is the dual partitions, which make flashing safe and easy enough that I routinely upgrade dd-wrt on these routers across the internet (even though that is still clearly a gamble and so not really to be encouraged).

[shawn01]

thanks for the tips/info...i found out that -RM2 just means refurbished model with linksys

i think i will look into the netgear r7800

thanks again

[shawn01]

thanks again for the tips/info...maybe i will consider getting a netgear r7800 after all.

thank you all for your time, oh i found out that -RM2 just means refurbished model.