Crowdfunding to purchase routers for donation

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 17, 2016 0:18    Post subject: Crowdfunding to purchase routers for donation Reply with quote
I've seen quite a few discussions about donating routers, criticisms for creating firmware hacks for unsupported routers, when will this router be supported, etc. and I wonder if setting up a crowdfunded donation page on something like GoFundMe to purchase said router(s) would be an option.

Moderator note 10.21.23: The following links are to provide information on hardware donations. See the “Commercial_Invoice_Template“ for shipping address information. Please be advised, current situation in the EU makes shipping from outside the EU, especially from the USA, difficult. German / EU customs has more stringent requirements involved. The best option is to use vendors such as amazon.de, ebay.de, etc. to procure hardware donations to ship to the lead developer. The other option is to provide full OEM bootlog and full flashdump via serial. Thanks for your understanding and interest in contributing to DD-WRT! -kp69
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 16:03    Post subject: Reply with quote
If people want to set up such a thing to get some new devices supported, great. But last time we did one, well, I know one person contributed the most. I'm all for it, but we need someone who is close enough to Germany that shipping costs, etc. aren't such an issue. Problem is, people don't want to put their money where their mouth is, so...

EDIT: Regarding details from this post about the Archer C9 v5 campaign in the Broadcom forum, if it is indeed true that gofundme nicks an extra 9% off the top besides what donators add as a "tip", then I suggest NOT using it and someone use their personal PayPal account to collect funds and go from there.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 3:49    Post subject: Reply with quote
I’ll try donating a Netgear Nighthawk RAX120 in the next few weeks once its uprooted out of one of my “stock router for guests” networks.

That’s ahead of the curve on ath1*k open source ax code but better early than late on messing with the hardware and a lot cheaper than reference qualcomm kit for 8074 @ 2.2GHZ

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2020 13:20    Post subject: Reply with quote
ironstaff wrote:
I’ll try donating a Netgear Nighthawk RAX120 in the next few weeks once its uprooted out of one of my “stock router for guests” networks.

That’s ahead of the curve on ath1*k open source ax code but better early than late on messing with the hardware and a lot cheaper than reference qualcomm kit for 8074 @ 2.2GHZ


Great!, When you have the RAX120 ready for donation, please PM me, I will send my token donation $100 to BS.
I have RAX120 and Costco RAX75 Also the TP-Link Archer AX11000 but its Broadcom based Sad

Currently the better router with 210G ports is ASUS RT-89X:

https://www.newegg.com/asus-rt-ax89x/p/N82E16833320438

Review:
https://dongknows.com/asus-rt-ax89x-review/

Teardown:
http://bbs.ntpcb.com/simple/?t146299.html

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 05, 2020 3:14    Post subject: Reply with quote
Woot has a deal on AX120 Netgear for $300 today. Wont last long.

https://computers.woot.com/offers/nighthawk-ax12-12-stream-wi-fi-6-router-3?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=VigLink&utm_campaign=CJ&cjevent=f4ea542576ea11ea802603890a240612

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 05, 2020 3:21    Post subject: Reply with quote
Merlin is already working on porting the AX routers to his firmware. Nothing has been done yet here, but the current global status of things is likely holding some of it up.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 19:38    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think it`s a good idea, but current situation will obviously affect it
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