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I have seen posts referring to the EOC5610 running openwrt, but it isn't included in the supported hardware doc. Is this supported? Does anybody have one running openwrt?
Engenius and Atheros do not seem to be well supported. Is there a reason for this? As I understand it Atheros is superior to Broadcom so I'm confused about the lack of support for the chipsets. Can someone enlighten me, please?
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I have seen posts referring to the EOC5610 running openwrt, ...
Which post, i.e. link?
As I understand it Atheros is superior to Broadcom so I'm confused about the lack of support for the chipsets. Can someone enlighten me, please?
Really? I know my FON2100 device, based on an Atheros AR231X chipset and overclocked to 200MHz, runs much slower than my Netgear WGT634U device, based on a Broadcom 5365P chipset and clocked @200MHz.
Which post, i.e. link?
What difference does it make?
Really? I know my FON2100 device, based on an Atheros AR231X chipset and overclocked to 200MHz, runs much slower than my Netgear WGT634U device, based on a Broadcom 5365P chipset and clocked @200MHz.
And??? You have one Broadcom based ap that outperforms one Atheros based unit...so, what's your point? In general Atheros is considered better than Broadcom from what my research shows. It looks like your Broadcom is a newer chipset since you are overclocking the Atheros. And perhaps the overclocking is slowing down the Atheros because of errors?
My intention is not to argue the merits of one over the other. I am asking for a logical explanation for the lack of support by firmware developers, not just openwrt. If there is a good reason I'd like to know before deploying hundreds across my network with no hope of support by software such as openwrt, xwrt, openmesh, robin, batman, etc...
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Here's a post for you maz https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=21354
Really? I know my FON2100 device, based on an Atheros AR231X chipset and overclocked to 200MHz, runs much slower than my Netgear WGT634U device, based on a Broadcom 5365P chipset and clocked @200MHz.
And??? You have one Broadcom based ap that outperforms one Atheros based unit...so, what's your point?
When answering your remarks, I had clearly quoted your remarks with purpose. So, you asked the question, and I delivered the answer. That's the point. FYI, I have other devices on other platforms that out performed Atheros, too. 
In general Atheros is considered better than Broadcom from what my research shows.
May be or may be not. I don't claim either. All I did was to fulfill your question. If you are not happy with my answer, please move on.
It looks like your Broadcom is a newer chipset since you are overclocking the Atheros.
That remains to be proven, not by me.
And perhaps the overclocking is slowing down the Atheros because of errors?
Without overclocking, my FON2100 performs even slower the my WGT634U. So, overclocking really makes my FON2100 performs faster. Just don't take my words on this, get yourself this mediocre FON2100 and see it for yourself.
My intention is not to argue the merits of one over the other. I am asking for a logical explanation for the lack of support by firmware developers, not just openwrt.
I do understand your intention, but my previous post was here just merely to address some of your confusion w.r.t. the chipsets on Atheros vs. Broadcom. Perhaps, you need to re-word your post to make it more clear.
maz
Go find somebody else to argue with. I know what your intension was.
And you didn't answer my question. You compared 2 units and gave that as an answer. Seriously?
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