Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 109 Location: United States
Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 1:06 Post subject: Netgear R7450 branded AC2600 when DDWRT treats it as AC1900?
Hello,
I'm trying to better understand this router. So this router is marketed as AC2600 but when flashing DD-WRT on it, it is treated as the R6800 model which is AC1900. I heard that the hardware between the R6800 and R7450 is similar but now I'm wondering if it was just marketing BS by Netgear that the R7450 is claimed to be capable of doing AC2600 when it is only capable of doing AC1900? Or maybe it is an AC2600 router and DD-WRT isn't able to fully utilize the router's max potential as of yet?
Also read somewhere that someone claimed the R7450 has 4 Antennas and DD-WRT can only run 3 of them (not sure if that is true). _________________ DD-WRT Router Arsenal:
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Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 1:36 Post subject:
I will pre-empt a possible response by the man himself in saying that there were several devices with nearly identical hardware added at the same time. Nobody is reporting on all of them to see what each are detected / identified as. This includes a wireless extender. My vote is for a quick and dirty port and worry about cosmetics later. _________________ "Life is but a fleeting moment, a vapor that vanishes quickly; All is vanity"
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There's some chatter on the SD forum about DD-WRT not supporting the full potential of the R7450. No evidence was provided to support that conclusion. I suspect that is where the initial question in this thread came from.
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Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 18:40 Post subject:
kernel-panic69 wrote:
I will pre-empt a possible response by the man himself in saying that there were several devices with nearly identical hardware added at the same time. Nobody is reporting on all of them to see what each are detected / identified as. This includes a wireless extender. My vote is for a quick and dirty port and worry about cosmetics later.
That makes sense. Thanks!
ho1Aetoo wrote:
and as you can see from the internal photos they also have an internal 4th antenna
now the question would be how you come to the assumption that dd-wrt can only control / uses 3 antennas ?
in the advanced wlan settings are the antenna chains shown, do you see 3 or 4 antennas?
Thanks for the tip. I have yet to flash DD-WRT on my R7450s but will be doing that soon. Reason why I asked that question about 3 antennas instead of 4 was because another person on a different site mentioned that so it got me wondering.
turbowells wrote:
There's some chatter on the SD forum about DD-WRT not supporting the full potential of the R7450. No evidence was provided to support that conclusion. I suspect that is where the initial question in this thread came from.
That's correct. I was looking at that earlier and I was quite confused and decided to see if the people here can clarify. I bought 2 from that deal just to give it a shot since my EA8500 (which I also got from a SD deal a few years ago) has some strange issues (though I have some workarounds to kind of make it suitable). _________________ DD-WRT Router Arsenal:
