The secret of the router core is all here!

Yesterday, there was a small message to push the router, Xiao Bian think the light recommended model is still not enough, so today the market common router processor program, a third-party system for a list, for your reference. In particular, if you only consider the performance or cost-effectiveness, according to the recommended model of the main chip under its own choice, the router comes with the system to meet the general and even some advanced users, no problem. If there are further requirements, the third-party router system is a huge treasure that can be played. Its powerful functions and functions are also very rich. You can even install the software yourself. Of course, the stability is not as good as the original one. This depends on everyone's own. Like it.

New Perspective: Looking at the Route from the Processor

Marvell: Everyone often hears Marvell's SSD hosting. In fact, Marvell has always been a benchmark on the router processor. Xiao Bian has always believed that Marvell's products in recent years have been almost impeccable in terms of power consumption and performance, except that the price is not cheap.

Representative models: Linksys WRT1200/1900/32X

Third-party systems: DD-WRT, LEDE/OpenWrt

Broadcom: Broadcom is a God-like presence on the wireless router (also forcing the acquisition of Qualcomm...), good compatibility, good performance, and a consistently high market share. Previous products such as the BCM4708 have been criticized for high performance, high power consumption, and heat, and the new processor has been greatly improved. Prior to the main chip MIPS architecture, and later switched to the ARM architecture, many high-end routers are using Broadcom's processor.

Representative models: ASUS RT-AC86U/RT-AC68U, netware R6900/R7000

Third-party systems: DD-WRT, Tomato, Merlin

Qualcomm: The famous Qualcomm also entered the router field. The difference is that his products are basically based on the acquisition of Atheros. Atheros was once the king of performance and once withdrew from many classic products, including WiFi network cards. At present, it is mainly an ARM-based router chip, and its performance is very prominent.

Representative models: Netgear R7500/7800, ASUS ACRH17

Third-party systems: DD-WRT, LEDE/OpenWrt

Intel: Intel's routing is relatively small, but it does not mean that Intel has no achievements in network products. It is necessary to know that many network devices use Intel processors. Currently known is the Fiji K3, Intel does not have a high sense of home-level products.

Representative models: Feixun K3

Third-party systems: LEDE, Merlin

MTK: MediaTek Invincible Brush King is not white, and so is the router. MediaTek is accustomed to using turnkey solutions to customers. Therefore, the secondary development threshold for router manufacturers is low (easy to get the source code), the finished product is fast, and there are many adaptable router systems, and the playability is very high.

Representative models: newifi 3, polar route 4, Mercury MAC2600R

Third-party systems: Padava, LEDE, Merlin

Hass: Huawei Hass is only used in its own routing, Hass as an excellent ARM architecture processor development company, the strength should not be underestimated. More importantly, Huawei's achievements in network devices are not comparable to the average vendor! The only regret is that the playability is low and the third-party system adapts to zero.

Representative models: Huawei WS5200, etc.

Third-party systems: None

What is the third-party system?

Third-party systems should be called third-party firmware. They all belong to the embedded system. Initially, Linksys was forced to open the WRT54G router's firmware source code (you can check it out if you are interested). The third-party firmware is officially opened. With continuous evolution, several well-known

DD-WRT: The earliest emerging third-party system, which is rarely used at present, the main function is WDS bridging, another feature of the transition firmware (a transition from A firmware brush to C firmware);

Tomato: Tomato is based on the GPL code released by Linksys, but it contains the chip's Broadcom patented binary code. Therefore, the Tomato firmware is almost exclusively a router of Broadcom chip, and is currently used less;

LEDE/OpenWrt, Gargoyles, PandoraBox: The most popular third-party router system is OpenWrt. Compared to the original firmware, OpenWrt is not a single, static firmware, but provides a writable file to which software packages can be added. system. Since OpenWrt was too complicated, LEDE was born. LEDE was originally a branch of OpenWRT and has now become a successor. OpenWRT has stopped updating and maintaining. Gargoyles and Pandora Box are based on OpenWrt derivatives.

Padavan: Initially a Russian was born on the basis of ASUS n56u routing development. After being modified by source code, it was grafted on the router of MTK N7620/7621 series chips. Powerful and easy to use is the feature of Padava.

Merlin: Merlin Merlin firmware is a third-party router firmware supported by ASUS. It uses the official ASUS off-the-shelf driver. Its stability is much higher than that of open source drivers. It is dedicated to ASUS series routers and is characterized by powerful functions and good stability. The redesigned Merlin was modified by users based on the firmware of Merlin and was officially recognized.

Xiao Bian suggested that if the pursuit of performance, Qualcomm, Broadcom, happy processor products are very good choices; the pursuit of stable daily use, Huawei router is your choice, if it is the pursuit of a super price, non-MTK processor The router is none other than. Want to play third-party router system firmware, MTK products is the best choice for entry, as to later want to use LEDE (Qualcomm, Happy) or Tomato, Merlin / reform (Broadcom), then look at personal preferences.