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Never realized just how ridiculous the new Linksys WRT series actually is until I looked up some board shots.
It looks like they told the engineers "Go absolutely bananas, we don't care about profit margins on this one."
It actually looks like one of Linksys' internal development boards that they threw a heatsink on, and put in a nice case.
The heatsink is absolutely insane for a consumer product, and the PCB layout is unlike anything I've seen in a router before. They even broke out the serial port for you to connect to (no JTAG though, which is a minor disappointment)

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Love my 3200ACM. It's still rocking stock firmware since it's in dumb AP mode. My rack switch and pfSense box handles the heavy lifting.

I hate to imagine how much it costs them to use a sub-board design like this, and heatsink it from BOTH SIDES.

I'm just getting into building custom firmware for my 1900ACS.
I would have got the 3200ACM if it was available at the time, but it's still way overkill for me.
It is kind of nice to have a piece of hardware that will literally handle anything you are likely to throw at it without breaking a sweat.

The entire neoWRT line is a love letter to the community.
>hey
>let's make the best routers we can
>let's put all the drivers in mainline Linux
>let's make it trivial to reflash
>and let's make them look like a cylon had a baby with a wrt54g
I'm surprised management let them get away with it.

That's why I got my grandma one. It should last longer than she does.

I'm guessing this is a guts thread?
Here's an older model Librem 15 (not mine, from jewtube)

I'm still mad they cucked out on 4K. Zero money from me until it happens.

The board is actually pretty nicely designed. I just wish the two wifi cards weren't jammed onto one PCB so they could be used in other devices.

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The Omnia also has a pretty nice and simple board layout. All the expansion stuff on headers, plus a lot of room to grow past the stock configuration.

I don't really care that much about 4K. Yeah it would suck to not have it but i'd manage. The main thing that's missing is a Quad-core CPU.

Also, I did some research. Their stuff look super expensive, but it's actually much more reasonable if you just get it without storage and with the minimum ram, and then just buy that elsewhere.

Last one for me, the Thinkpad X301 competitor. Kept it light and thin, without being an unmaintainable mess like the Macbook Air. CPU soldered on, but the RAM was socketed and had three mPCIe slots which is more than a lot of fullsize laptops had.
Shame it came too early for mSATA SSDs and had a PATA Ultrabay, although I slapped a battery in mine.

What's the easiest way to get Linux running on these bad boys?

Feels good, my dude.

Plug it in. Default firmware is Linux based. If you mean something with a usable shell, you can upload firmware right through the webui and reboot into it.

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>fault firmware is Linux based. If you mean something with a usable s

wtf

This is not a gore thread

What's the best/most compatible custom firmware to install?

>memory
>free: 82%
Comfy man..

I've been out of the custom firmware game for a few years since I use dumb AP mode, but last I heard OpenWRT was the go to.

OpenWRT
It's a bit complicated at the moment becuase LEDE forked it, made something a lot better, then it got merged back into OpenWRT.
There's a huge mix in branding at the moment, but the images hosted by OpenWRT wiki are good.

Should I go for an OpenWRT image or a LEDE one? Not that I totally know the difference.

At the moment, the LEDE 17.01.4 image is the best image. It's build from the source code that OpenWRT will use going forward.

Thanks man! Are there any comparability issues you know of? (I would assume not since it's supposed to work with custom firmware, but it's possible I guess.)

hello newfriend

The 5GHz WiFi band can be a little finicky, but I think the fixes have been merged at this point.

Good to know. Thanks!

Too bad they don't work with LibreCMC

So I bought a WRT1900AC about 3.5 yrs ago and it's been in a box for most of that time. Is this still a decent device? If I use it again should I run stock firmware or something else? At the time it was unpopular with the community because the manufacturer didn't communicate well with the openwrt devs or some shit. Not retarded but don't usually follow this stuff.

These things have TWO mini pcie slots on them?
Can you put anything in it? I have a ton of mini-pcie wireless cards from Intel and some WWAN cards lying around.

Still one of the best routers on the market today.

Just about any simultaneous dual band AP/router is going to do that. It's just most of them have it all integrated onto the main PCB.

try openwrt its pretty cool and easy to install

I'm not sure if they are mPCIe, or just using the physical connector. Engineers will often look for connectors that will fit the physical requirements that they need, and just run their own electrical signals instead of the ones the connector was electrically designed for.

>The heatsink is absolutely insane for a consumer product

It looks like a cast aluminum part. Yes, it's custom, but once the mold is made and you order them by thousands, the price can be in single digits.

that looks like a really loud fan.

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Ridiculous is the new normal now.

Mostly due to based China.

its actually a quite cheap device. The heatsink is actually just enough for a fully loaded system too. Meaning 2 msata devices at full tdp and full processing load. ssds output alot of heat. and that heatsink is likely cast zink which is cheap. And they used lower end thermal pads.

anyone have a p51 motherboars picture with dual fans on it. For some reason no one has done a teardown online of it.

or m.2, cant tell full if thats msata

Holy shit the moulding on the back panel..

>2 msata devices
They're the radios.