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0 pointszantana5y ago0 comments

DD-WRT is has access to some proprietary (Broadcom?) code which enables NAT acceleration on some models which, at least in my case, greatly improved performance over OpenWRT.

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mobilio5y ago

Exactly. They have signed an NDA with Broadcom: https://openwrt.org/meta/infobox/broadcom_wifi

"DD-WRT has a license agreement and NDA in place with Broadcom that allow usage of better, proprietary, closed source wireless drivers (binary blobs) which they are not allowed to redistribute freely."

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0 pointszantana5y ago0 comments

DD-WRT is has access to some proprietary (Broadcom?) code which enables NAT acceleration on some models which, at least in my case, greatly improved performance over OpenWRT.

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mobilio5y ago

Exactly. They have signed an NDA with Broadcom: https://openwrt.org/meta/infobox/broadcom_wifi

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