[GTALUG] Wireless router: TP-Link Archer C7 $100

[Giles Orr]

On 12 February 2015 at 00:11, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com> wrote:
> This week (unless supplies run out, which happens) NCIX has this wireless
> router for $99.49 with free shipping.
>
> This is one that Scott has and recommends for OpenWRT.  He says that you
> should go for Version 2.0 and that the box will say if it is a Version 2.0
> router.  For that reason it may be better to buy it in one of their
> stores.
>
> It has been cheaper (briefly $70 and Future Shop and Best Buy) but not
> often recently.
>
> <http://www.ncix.com/detail/tp-link-archer-c7-ac1750-dual-1c-91525-1251.htm>
>
> <http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr7500>

I purchased one of these fairly recently.  Installing OpenWRT was as
easy as I've ever seen it be, and the amount of memory available seems
absolutely immense compared to the WRT-54Gs I'd been working with
previously.  I would love to tell you it's been great, but I haven't
actually used it enough to say that honestly.  So all I can say is
that it's looking good in the little use I've had from it.

If you do buy one and want to use the USB ports (which are 2.0 ... I
wish they were USB3), my stumbling adventures getting the ports to
work may be educational:

http://gilesorr.com/blog/archerc7-openwrt.html

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Giles
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