i hope someone finds a way to make a custom rom and installs the relayd package so you can use it as a repeater.. this would open up some usefulness.
It do really need to be able to be a repeater. Ether way this is almost useless.
Honestly it's not the best router, it's not made as router in it's main use. So if looking for a true repeater get a different router that is focused on being a router.
This is a lotto device and router second. You could argue 3rd is router if you see U3 controller as 2nd. But if your expecting a fancy router chances are this is not the device for you.
I have not got mine yet to play with but I will post once I do. I just see a lot better routers out there if your wanting a router.
lacking the default bridge or repeater mode really handicaps this things usefulness..
and as far as a router goes.. if you have comcast, or any other provider..they already gave you one..
what i was hoping for was a small, outlet repeater that had usb so i can plug in a usb hub and throw some usb miners on it and bridge my s5 to it..
the ui this thing has is fantastic and i think will work perfect for sidehacks compac usb miners. i just dont know why they left out a basic function that could have been so easily added.
I hated the one they gave me on my internet. It was such a pain from ISP. Eventually I got them to put it in bridge mode where nothing but modem is turned on with their router.
I then use a asus blackhawk as my main router. Which works great as I have many devices. Also the 1 gigabit internet needed a pretty good router to not loose speed a lot of routers are not made or gigabit.
I can't wait to get to play with the R1 hopefully in a few days.
its a fun little device.. it seems based on the Atheros AR71xx
for some reason they assigned eth0 to an IP of 192.168.200.1 even tho it doesnt seem to be used you CANNOT change this IP.. it will jam the whole thing up and you have to reset it..
if you bridge eth0, to eth1 and wwan and then put them all on the lan firewall, and enable all 3 fields, uncheck all the boxes. you can connect a laptop to the lan and it will go online through dhcp..
the issue is as soon as you hit save and apply the whole thing locks up and only the laptop works online hah.. the unit wont be accessible.. or at least it wont respond to any incoming connections and i think it stops mining.. at least the light doesnt blink.
also the laptop will be on 192.168.200.100 IP.. and you have to set your WHOLE network to that IP range..
i am sure there will be a way.. just gotta find it.
i tried to install relayd from the generic trunk snapshot.. but it ended with an error 127..