Why OpenWRT?
One of my home access points is TP-Link Archer C7. I purchased it to get all benefits of the 5Ghz 802.11ac standard for the laptop and 2.4Ghz band for the older devices. However, it was never working for me well:
- In 5Ghz band Apple devices were working very unstable
- Sometime i had to reboot router because of wifi stability issues. After reboot it was working until next issue. There are no debug options/logs in the native firmware.
- Device was spamming network with STP packets and some other data, no way to disable.
- After upgrading to the new firmware versions i had to reconfigure it completely. And in fact difference between regullary updated versions was minimal
- Native firmware configurable only via web interface, probably backdoors are included
https://smallhacks.wordpress.com/2015/11/22/upgrading-tp-link-archer-c7-ac1750-to-use-with-openwrt/
https://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05/ar71xx/generic/openwrt-15.05-ar71xx-generic-archer-c7-v1-squashfs-factory.bin
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