Once the router is upgraded to OpenWrt all that will be gone, and who knows if Belkin is collecting this information (you can't run the wizard without being connected to the internet, I tried). Just type something like "12345678", and move on. It also wants SSIDs and passwords for the 2.4 & 5 Ghz Wifi radios.Ĭaution: don't waste your fancy passwords on this wizard. Getting past Belkin's Setup Wizardīecause it is a bad idea to have default passwords, Belkin has decided to have a first run Setup Wizard to assign one. 802.11ax is an IEEE extension to the Wifi standard that not only supports the 5Ghz band, but also the recently approved for use by the FCC (April 2020) 6Ghz band. Unfortunately, the Belkin router does not support what the marketing folks call Wifi 6e. Naturally, it is backward compatible and will work just fine with your older, now out of date, 802.11ac equipment /s. As mentioned it also includes Wifi 6 (aka 802.11ax), the next Wifi standard (after 802.11ac). The router sports a dual core A53 Arm processor, with 512MB of RAM, 128MB of NAND Flash, and five GigE ports. OpenWrt is an embedded Linux distribution with rich history of open source application support.
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And OpenWrt supports over 9000 software packages you can add to the router, from blocking adverts, to running Linux Containers. OpenWrt will continue to support this router with new releases long past when Belkin moves on to bigger and more expensive routers. However the IPv6 version, RIPng, is not supported. For example, the Belkin firmware can run a dynamic routing protocol called RIP (Routing Information Protocol).
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Why upgrade to OpenWrt?Īlthough the Belkin firmware has some support for IPv6, it is far from feature parity with IPv4. To be fair, for the additional $50 USD the black version has 4 more LEDs, link lights for the LAN ports. Belkin which also owns the venerable Linksys product line these days, also offers the same router (in black) for 50% more. The Belkin RT3200 (aka AX3200) is one of the first 802.11ax routers to be supported by OpenWrt.
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