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Re:TP-Link begins router firmware lockdown due to FCC propos... by tbyehl on Thursday February 18, 2016 @09:29AM (#11125927)
I'm been replacing ASUS RT-N16s with RT-AC56Rs. $50 refurbs in-store at Microcenter, $75 new from Walmart.com, well-supported by all the firmwares that have ARM builds.

If you can't buy them that cheap the TP-Link Archer C7 has been a better value... well, up until now.

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Re:TP-Link begins router firmware lockdown due to FCC propos... by narrowrail on Thursday February 18, 2016 @01:23PM (#11127968)
According to the OpenWRT wiki:

http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/asus/rt-ac56u

The BCM4352 (AC/AN chip) is not supported, which is part of the reason to get one of these routers. Broadcom router chips are usually MIPS based, and also heavy on the binary blobs (which may allow for dd-wrt support).

Edit: In fact, I can't find any image that supports this BCM4352 on dd-wrt either:

http://dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices

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