Tenda N60 - $59.80 @ PB Tech

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#171093 6-Apr-2015 12:56

I was keen to pick up a router this weekend to pair with my DrayTek Vigor 130 and was after something cheap, in stock and compatible with OpenWrt. Most of the OpenWrt compatible routers start at around ~$120 and PB Tech only really had the TP Link range physically in stock.

After a fair amount of Googling I did however come across the Tenda N60 / N600. While its not explicitly compatible with OpenWrt it will run the Tomato firmwares. More specifically the AdvancedTomato and Tomato by Shibby firmwares.

The N60 is using the BCM47186B0 chipset with 8Mb of Flash and 64Mb of RAM and all ethernet ports of gigabit making it very similar in specs to the Linksys E3200 which are still $100+ on TradeMe and known to run OpenWrt*.

One caveat, I haven't tested the WiFi as I am using an Unifi AP instead, so the quality of the WiFi was of zero interest to me during my research.

For anyone after a cheap router to flash with custom firmware they don't come much cheaper than this.

*I suspect the lack of OpenWrt support is simply due to the developers not having access to a unit and not a hardware compatibility issue.

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#1277811 6-Apr-2015 13:09

When I tried tomato on one, the 5Ghz didnt work.

I bricked another trying to flash something that a thread somewhere said would work.

With stock firmware they are pretty rubbish routers too.

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#1277840 6-Apr-2015 13:35

PANiCnz

Thanks for the post. Good to know it works for your intended purpose.

I see Tenda W300A is directly on the supported list and pbtech selling a W300D.

There is often big difference between A ... D model but I was wondering if you looked at that and ruled it out for deviation?

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#1277841 6-Apr-2015 13:37

The D has adsl in it, from what I have seen support for those is poor with the open source stuff compared to ethernet wan ones, but its been a while since I have looked into openwrt as I have several capable routers now sitting around doing nothing till I find a need.

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#1277894 6-Apr-2015 16:04

Isn't Tenda that sh!tty brand with an open DNS resolver by default on the WAN?

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#1279012 8-Apr-2015 13:39

Zeon: Isn't Tenda that sh!tty brand with an open DNS resolver by default on the WAN?

The only reason to buy one is for the hardware so you replace the Tenda firmware with open source third party firmware like TomatoUSB, DD-WRT or OpenWRT.

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#1279363 8-Apr-2015 22:43

Zeon: Isn't Tenda that sh!tty brand with an open DNS resolver by default on the WAN?

AFAIK yes. Think they also have the management pages exposed to the net as well.

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#1279365 8-Apr-2015 22:51

Not that hard ticking the check box to enable firewall on the WAN interface.

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#1279376 8-Apr-2015 23:09

yitz: Not that hard ticking the check box to enable firewall on the WAN interface.

It is difficult for your regular home user who don't even change their SSID or default password on their router.

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