Linksys EA8500

[Walton]

Hi from Australia,

I have been running Gargoyle on Netgear routers for a few years now and am very happy with it. These are in a Ski Club and remote access is important.

One of the club members is pestering and offering a Linksys EA8500 as he thinks this will increase the browsing speed (there is only ADSL2+ available where the routers are).

Can Gargoyle be run on the EA8500? I looked on the download area and couldn't see any reference to it.

Thanks in advance,

[Lantis]

The newest testing builds (1.13.x) can be used on the ea8500.
It's not going to magically get you more speed from ADSL2+ though

[Walton]

Thanks Lantis for the response.

And yes I know it won't magically increase the speed but sometimes you have to let someone do this so they find out first hand.

[BJReplay]

I'm using the EA8500 with a household of four working from home during Melbourne's extended lockdown and it is running solidly on the 1.13.x test builds.

It won't speed up ADSL, but might offer more reliable WiFi connections in the Ski Club over an older router, which might help a little.

[Walton]

Thanks for the info.

We will test it next time we're there and go from there.

Melbourne here too, what a year (to forget!!)

[pozzello]

old thread, dumb question.

Still running 1.13.X (Built 20210319-0339 git@396836cd) and figured there must be newer version, but confused as to where to find latest...

I see newer firmware for the Linksys EA8500 (ipq806?) here:
https://lantisproject.com/downloads/gar ... cGwiOjEwfQ
but I don't see a link to download compiled/uploadable image.

https://lantisproject.com/storage/gargo ... x/default/ is 'forbidden'...

Where to find that? TIA.

ps: i find this as well:
https://drivers.softpedia.com/get/Route ... tory.shtml
but seems to have the '-factory' image only. Don't I need the '-upgrade' version if I already have OpenWRT/Gargoyle installed?...

[Lantis]

You can go one version prior
https://lantisproject.com/downloads/gar ... JwbCI6MTB9

I have no idea why the latest version has nothing uploaded for ipq806x… that was an oversight.
A new build will be out in the next few days.

Also, be aware that you may need to flash the factory image to upgrade from that old of a version due to kernel size changes. The wiki for your device has more information.