New Linksys Router With Official OpenWRT Support And Open Drivers
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New Linksys Router With Official OpenWRT Support And Open Drivers
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Linksys, the first to sell 100 million routers globally and a leader in networking solutions for the home and business, today announced it has improved upon its best AC1900 wireless router to deliver even better performance with more processing power, more memory, fully open source ready and at an even better price. The newly improved WRT1900ACS Dual-Band Gigabit Router is equipped with powerful hardware including a dual-core 1.6 GHz processor, 128MB flash memory, 512MB DDR3 RAM memory, eSATA and USB ports. The new WRT ships with Linksys Smart Wi-Fi setup and management tools, and Linksys has also collaborated with Marvell and OpenWrt to ensure full open source support in the latest version of OpenWrt's Chaos Calmer release (15.05) at launch. The new hardware and multiple software and firmware options make for an unprecedented router with advanced customization and blazing fast speeds.
OpenWRT Support
Linksys has collaborated with OpenWrt and Marvell to provide full open source support for the WRT1900ACS in OpenWrt's stable and development branches. OpenWrt is a modular system, where users can select and install additional features on top of pre-compiled firmware images from the open source community such as BitTorrent support, multiple VPN clients and servers, advanced QoS and firewall features, media file sharing, and captive portal support for creating Wi-Fi hot spots. This modularity allows networking-savvy users to fully customize the feature set of their router to better suit their particular needs. Some of the recent highlights in OpenWrt include full support for IPv6 networks, better support for multi-core systems in the network stack and enhanced support for 3G/4G modems.
Information on pre-built images based on OpenWrt's, "Chaos Calmer" 15.05 is available immediately for the WRT1900ACS on the OpenWrt wiki page at http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt1900acs.
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