Which hardware is most powerful for LibraryBox?

[jeph300]

Hello guys, I was thinking about what hardware is best for big storage, wide wifi coverage, and support the most number of clients? Is it raspberry pi or a specific model of router?

[Gaurav Saini]

Hello Everyone,

Any updates on this ? Actually I tried MR3020 and its just supports 10 devices after that its start hanging the content that is streamed. 

Thanks

Gaurav

[T Gillett]

You might look at TP Link WDR3500 and WDR4300

They are concurrent dual band MIMO routers with 128MB RAM and two USB ports.

[jeph300]

Is WDR3500 supported?

[daniel...@g.ucla.edu]

also has anyone tried the TP-Link AC1200 Gigabit Wireless Wi-Fi Router (Archer C1200)?

[Brad Wells]

I, too, am interested in this topic.  I'm looking for a non-portable router with good range.  With the recommended routers increasingly difficult to find in stock at a reasonable price, and TP-Link restricting custom firmware on many of the latest hardware revisions, it seems to be a guessing game at this point as to whether you can get your hands on a full-feature router that is Librarybox compatible.  Does anybody have any recent success stories?

[Jason Griffey]

Unfortunately, you're right...TP-Link is killing anything that does 5Ghz, and those tend to be the larger, mains-powered units. 

I would love to do a full review of what's current on the hardware side (what is actually available for order, etc) but don't have the $$ to purchase all the hardware necessary to test. LibraryBox is currently unfunded as far as development goes....there is some development that will happen over the summer, hopefully, associated with Google's Summer of Code, but that won't be hardware testing.

If this is something that a large number of people are looking for, I'm willing to pursue it...try to find an available larger unit with external antenna and such to verify the install and such on. If you're in this boat, post here and let me know. If I get a few responses, I'll bump this up as a priority.

Jason

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[Roy Blumenthal]

Why not install LIBRARYBOX on a weaker router, then use a powerful router as a repeater? Wouldn't that work? 

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On Mar 12, 2017 6:31 PM, "Jason Griffey" <gri...@gmail.com> wrote:

Unfortunately, you're right...TP-Link is killing anything that does 5Ghz, and those tend to be the larger, mains-powered units. 

I would love to do a full review of what's current on the hardware side (what is actually available for order, etc) but don't have the $$ to purchase all the hardware necessary to test. LibraryBox is currently unfunded as far as development goes....there is some development that will happen over the summer, hopefully, associated with Google's Summer of Code, but that won't be hardware testing.

If this is something that a large number of people are looking for, I'm willing to pursue it...try to find an available larger unit with external antenna and such to verify the install and such on. If you're in this boat, post here and let me know. If I get a few responses, I'll bump this up as a priority.

Jason

On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 2:50 PM Brad Wells <br...@wellsb.com> wrote:

I, too, am interested in this topic.  I'm looking for a non-portable router with good range.  With the recommended routers increasingly difficult to find in stock at a reasonable price, and TP-Link restricting custom firmware on many of the latest hardware revisions, it seems to be a guessing game at this point as to whether you can get your hands on a full-feature router that is Librarybox compatible.  Does anybody have any recent success stories?

On Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 6:44:20 PM UTC, jeph300 wrote:

Hello guys, I was thinking about what hardware is best for big storage, wide wifi coverage, and support the most number of clients? Is it raspberry pi or a specific model of router?

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[Matthias Strubel]

From the current development, I think that the following is the way to go:

- Use cheap one-chip computers like RPi 0w , RPi2 & RPi3 as a plattform basis

- Use normal stock router for the wifi access.

That will eliminate a lot of issues... what do you think?

Matthias

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[T Gillett]

Given the situation with TP Link and other manufacturers in response to the FCC issue, you might consider looking at routers that use OpenWrt / LEDE as their native operating system.

Good examples that might be useful for LibraryBox are the GL-inet AR150, AR300M, MT300A devices.
    https://www.gl-inet.com/products/

These are all OpenWrt based, so there are no major issues with upgrading the firmware.

All are available with external antennas, and the AR300M and MT300A are MIMO / 2T2R devices.

The AR300M and the MT300A have 16MB Flash and 128MB RAM.

The MT300A has an internal micro-SD card slot for library content storage.

There is a 5GHz secondary radio in development for the AR300M.

All these devices have a web based boot loader option for simple software installation without the need to access the main operating system.

Development of firmware images for these devices is straightforward in OpenWrt / LEDE build environments.

Regards

Terry

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