I was quite anxious to get a WNDR3700. I had been window shopping for a decent OpenWrt capable 802.11n router for a while, and this one met every requirement I had (Gigabit Ethernet, dual radio 802.11n, USB port). The Backfire release firmware (the stable stuff) I put on had very unreliable 802.11n performance. I decided to build from SVN (I used r21847), which has been running pretty stable.

Hardware specifications

• Atheros AR7161 rev. 2 680 MHz
• 64 MiB RAM
• 8 MiB flash
• Realtek RTL8366SR Gigabit Ethernet switch
• Atheros AR9280 802.11b/g/n wireless adapter
• Atheros AR9280 802.11a/n wireless adapter
• 1x USB 2.0

Lspci output
Unlike with my WL-500G, the lspci output is pretty sparse here...

root@zeus:~# lspci
00:00.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Device 0700:1107 (rev 01)
00:11.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR922X Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
00:12.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR922X Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

/proc/cpuinfo contents

root@zeus:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
system type : Atheros AR7161 rev 2
machine : NETGEAR WNDR3700
processor : 0
cpu model : MIPS 24Kc V7.4
BogoMIPS : 452.19
wait instruction : yes
microsecond timers : yes
tlb_entries : 16
extra interrupt vector : yes
hardware watchpoint : yes, count: 4, address/irw mask: [0x0000, 0x0ff8, 0x0ff8, 0x0ff8]
ASEs implemented : mips16
shadow register sets : 1
core : 0
VCED exceptions : not available
VCEI exceptions : not available