[mythtv-users] cutting the cord issues?

[Jan Ceuleers]

On 19/11/17 13:03, Mark Perkins wrote:
> 
>> I also have an alternative (less positive) story. I have an Asus
>> RT-N66U, which is very capable and which on paper supports DD-WRT and
>> LEDE. But in practice its performance when running open-source firmware
>> is stifled by the fact that its Broadcom chipset, in respect of wifi,
>> uses a softmac approach which requires an opaque firmware blob from
>> Broadcom, and the open-source community has not yet figured out how to
>> use that properly. So I have to stick to the factory firmware and have
>> to put up with their glacial security patching pace. Meaning that I
>> can't risk exposing it to the open internet as my main broadband router.

> Have you looked into the Asus Merlin firmware for your RT-N66u? Might be a 
> suitable middle ground.

Thanks Mark. It's been a while since I looked at the Merlin firmware.
When I did my conclusion was that it is a slightly feature-enriched
version of the stock firmware, but that in respect of security updates
it still relies on Asus. So from the security perspective Merlin is
slightly worse, because you need to wait first for Asus to issue the
update and then for Merlin to roll that update into its own version.