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by spmurrayzzz 1270 days ago
I do. yes. But the latest stock firmware on that router is surprisingly stable and performant. Not a bad idea to do some burn-in testing with that to see if it meets your needs. If you need to tweak phy layer knobs like tx power etc, you'd have to switch but otherwise there's probably not a need for most folks.

Also, open driver support for broadcom chipsets is very lean, so getting openwrt to work on the wireless side is a bit of an effort. Doable, but definitely not simple out of the box.
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sgtnoodle 1262 days ago
Are you sure you don't have an R8000 rather than an R8000P? As far as I can tell, the only alternative firmware for the R8000P is OpenWRT, and the documentation claims only 802.11b/g rates are supported. DD-WRT and Tomato, which would have better driver support, only target the R8000.

At least I had fun connecting to the console UART in order to flash the latest firmware on this R8000P. The one I bought was stuck on an older version with a bug that prevented it from accepting firmware ever again.

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sgtnoodle 1263 days ago
I got the hardware in hand. Did you need to connect a UART in order to flash OpenWRT? Any tips or links you can recommend would be appreciated.
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