Linksys And DD-WRT Announce Support For The Latest WRT Routers

[btarunr]

Linksys, a leader in networking solutions for the home and business and DD-WRT, a Linux based alternative OpenSource firmware suitable for a variety of WLAN routers and embedded systems, today announced the expansion of DD-WRT support to include the WRT1900AC, WRT1200AC, and recently released WRT1900ACS Dual-band Gigabit Wi-Fi routers*.

DD-WRT now expands the third party firmware choices for the WRT series of routers beyond the current support via OpenWrt's "Chaos Calmer" release, and positions the WRT platform as a leading choice for open source developers. DD-WRT will also be able to provide custom firmware solutions for commercial applications built on the new Linksys WRT platform just as they have for the last 12+ years on the venerable WRT54G.



"With Linksys and Marvel working closely to improve the upstream support for the Marvel CPUs and Wi-Fi radios, DD-WRT can now provide stable and robust support for the modern WRT series of routers in our alternate firmware platform, building on what was started many years back with the first WRT," said Peter Steinhauser, Co-CEO, DD-WRT.

"Today we are honoured to have DD-WRT supporting the complete WRT Series of routers. This gives users that have relied on DD-WRT support for their legacy WRT router applications a powerful hardware upgrade path utilizing the latest in AC Wi-Fi technology and Gigabit wired speeds found in the award-winning WRT1900AC, WRT1200AC, and WRT1900ACS routers," said Vince La Duca, product manager, Linksys.

More information on DD-WRT's support for the Linksys WRT Series of routers can be found here.

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[RejZoR]

DD-WRT is rubbish. Especially its QoS is absolutely worthless. I want TomatoRAF.

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

DD-WRT is rubbish. Especially its QoS is absolutely worthless. I want TomatoRAF.

What router are you using? That's a pretty antiquated view of dd-wrt these days. I felt that way back on 54G series. I find anything AC and broadcom works amazingly with these bleeding edge DD-WRT builds, with QoS usually being touted as best on DD-WRT. I just had to ditch Advanced Tomato on two of my netgear AC routers. Janky wireless that kept dropping out, and it was just annoying in general having to fall back on commands to do things I can just do in the gui on DD-WRT.

 

[RejZoR]

QoS hasn't changed a single bit since WRT54GL era. I've installed DD-WRT few days ago on my RT-AC87U and it was exactly the same thing.

TomatoRAF has excellent ports control, you can re-arrange rules priority, you have graphs that show you what rule is controlling what part of the bandwidth, bandwidth control is easy to apply to upload and download, hell, TomatoRAF has Layer7, meaning you pick a P2P Protocol, stick it to lowest priority and any app, doesn't matter what ports it is using, it'll utilize the P2P rule and run at lowest packet priority. The Youtube Layer7 made Youtube always stream without interruptions. It's impossible to create a rule for Youtube in DD-WRT. You can't set it per IP because they use tons of IP's. You can't use ports because Youtube doesn't use dedicated ports. It just doesn't work.

 

[Jetster]

antiquated? Interesting term. Describes DD WRT perfectly. Its an open source program that receives almost no money. How good could it be? Although this move in working with Linksys and Marvel may change something. I do have the WRT1200AC

 

[TheGuruStud]

What router are you using? That's a pretty antiquated view of dd-wrt these days. I felt that way back on 54G series. I find anything AC and broadcom works amazingly with these bleeding edge DD-WRT builds, with QoS usually being touted as best on DD-WRT. I just had to ditch Advanced Tomato on two of my netgear AC routers. Janky wireless that kept dropping out, and it was just annoying in general having to fall back on commands to do things I can just do in the gui on DD-WRT.

Have you used Shibby builds of Tomato?

DDWRT seems to kill performance on lots of routers. I have some that can't even reach 100 Mbit on WAN...what a joke. I switched to modded stock on a RT-N16 (not new I know and to be fair tomato wasn't able to max out my internet which is up to about 265 Mbit).

Using tomato on the ea6900 with no issue right now. 5ghz is beast on these broadcoms and I'm not even using AC.


The news isn't surprising at all. The Linksys brand keeps getting shuffled around as it fails from terrible stock firmware. If they can use this to build solid firmware, then they can regain their reputation and be a viable product to consumers. The only reason I buy them is b/c they're cheap on ebay LOL. Tons of returns means cheap refurbs (look at how expensive the Asus models with the same hardware are).