Netgear seems to pride themselves on supporting open source firmware. Glad to hear that this is continuing (although I'm not sure what the role of Netgear is in this one *smile*), especially since their stock firmware is so lame. Maybe Netgear pushed Atheros to release their radio firmware and wireless drivers? I've been using the R7800 for a few days now, and there's so little information available in the stock firmware, not even a decent log, no usage graphs, etc., and no ability to add software to get more information about the router and my LAN.
I have to say, though, that the stock firmware is exactly what I expected from my earlier use of Netgear stock firmware with the R7000.
I'll be really glad to see some alternative firmware for this great router!
Joined: 19 Nov 2008 Posts: 274 Location: Madison, CT, US
Posted: Fri May 13, 2016 13:14 Post subject:
I wished I had read Kong's post about Atheros and Marvel sooner. I would never ever have bought the Netgear r7500v2. I have always had Broadcom SoC and never had any problem with ddwrt or even OEM firmware. I took out my new r7500v2 and replaced them with Asus RT-N66. _________________ Netgear R7800(2), R7500v2(2) WDS, Asus RT-AC68R (2)
I wished I had read Kong's post about Atheros and Marvel sooner. I would never ever have bought the Netgear r7500v2. I have always had Broadcom SoC and never had any problem with ddwrt or even OEM firmware. I took out my new r7500v2 and replaced them with Asus RT-N66.
R7500v2 was not out for long and quickly replaced by the R7800, thus I never got one. A first R7800 build is available now. It definitely sets new standards in terms of routing and vpn performance. _________________ KONG PB's: http://www.desipro.de/ddwrt/
KONG Info: http://tips.desipro.de/
Joined: 19 Nov 2008 Posts: 274 Location: Madison, CT, US
Posted: Fri May 13, 2016 16:24 Post subject:
I have used your firmware over the years on Broadcomm routers from both Asus and Netgear. The KongAC firmwares were very stable and working great on many of my routers(over 15). I am really grateful for your contribution.
I saw that the R7800 has different hardware than the R7500v2:
1. CPU IPQ 8065 @1.7 GHz vs IPQ 8064 @1.4 GHz
2. 2.4 GHz radio QCA9984 vs QCA9980
3. 5 GHz radio QCA9984 vs QCA 9980
So the R7500v2 cannot use the r7800 firmware but is inferior in performance as well. May be Friday the 13th is bad luck after all!!! _________________ Netgear R7800(2), R7500v2(2) WDS, Asus RT-AC68R (2)
I understand that encryption consumes CPU but when I watch process with "top" command it never goes over 30% cpu, idle cpu is around 65~70% all way long.
