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Hi - I am about to purchase a new router and need to choose between the AC68U and the R7000. I have done a fair amount of trawling through the forums and found some older comments around wifi range issues on the R7000 running Shibby (or was it dd-wrt). I am running Shibby on an ancient WRT54GL without issue (I rely heavily on QoS) but the wifi is ancient and slow.

The R7000 is listed on the Shibby supported routers list but I just wanted to find out more before purchasing as this is an expensive router.

http://linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/tomato-for-arm-routers.69719/

The R7000 used to suffer from a *ping* issue. It should now be fixed. That being said, there are still features in the ARM firmware that are not yet 100% functional. As of writing, qos is one of those. I think it's likely it will be fixed eventually. Currently though, only mipsel firmware has fully functioning qos, that is both inbound and outbound. I believe the inbound on ARM is not yet functional. The above link is the arm thread in the linksysinfo.org forum. Keep an eye on that thread and in that forum in general. There is more activity going on there, and is the first place you will find out new news.

Great - thanks