But you won't see much, the hardware is 99.999999999% identical except for the fact that there is an EEPROM somewhere in the WLAN chipset that was programmed differently and then the fuse was burned.
I had it dismantled a long time ago. There was a sheet metal ceiling somewhere nearby or, when you lifted it, there were some resistors underneath that were used to adjust the region during production.
Maybe I'll just take them apart and take some photos and see. Why such emotions, it should be a normal, civilized conversation, this is a forum and everyone can say something, so maybe you would be more polite.
Have a nice day.
in earlier wrt1900ac v1 and wrt1200 v1 models it was possible to modify the power with software. but the new wrt3200ac, wrt1200 v2, wrt1900acs etc. do have a preprogrammed powertable which is not controlable by software. the hw itself reads it from a eeprom which cannot be changed by software. in vht160 5 ghz mine shows a maximum of 23 db in 2.4 ghz it shows 30 dbm. i assume the returned power from the driver is not correct since 30 dbm seems to be very much to high. consider also that there are european and us american models. both do have different pre programmed power settings
And nobody wants to see your photos.
There are already more than enough of them and the dd-wrt developers have all the marvel router models themselves.
Then have fun with this nonsense - for me, everything has been clear since page 1 of the thread.
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Pretty sure if one dug deep enough, they would find the bits that determine if their router's hard-coded bits can be overridden, but I suspect that this would devolve into a train wreck if discussion continued.
To see if your device needs/accepts an external power table or not, run the following:
Code:
cat /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/mwlwifi/info
You should see a line in the results which looks like the following:
Code:
power table loaded from dts: no
If it is "no", it does not allow you to load external power table (for newer devices due to FCC regulations). If it is "yes", you must provide power table in DTS file (for older devices).
