Linksys EA8500
Linksys EA8500
Availability: now
Manuf (OEM/ODM): CyberTAN EWW604
FCC approval date: 10 April 2015
(Est.) release date: 23 April 2015
Country of manuf.: China
Series: AC2600
Type: wireless router, bridge, range extender, repeater
FCC ID: Q87-EA8500
IC ID: 3839A-EA8500
PCB ID: EWW604-B1-L5
Power: 12 VDC, 3.5 A
Connector type: barrel
CPU1: Qualcomm IPQ8064 (1.4 GHz, 2 cores)
FLA1: 128 MiB134,217,728 B <br />1,048,576 Kib <br />131,072 KiB <br />1,024 Mib <br />0.125 GiB <br /> (Spansion S34ML01G100TFI00)
RAM1: 512 MiB536,870,912 B <br />4,194,304 Kib <br />524,288 KiB <br />4,096 Mib <br />0.5 GiB <br /> (Samsung K4B2G1646Q-BCK0 × 2)
Expansion IFs: USB 2.0 / eSATA (combo port), USB 3.0
USB ports: 2
SATA ports: 1
Serial: yes, internal, (115200 8N1)
WI1 chip1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9980
WI1 802dot11 protocols: an+ac
WI1 MIMO config: 4x4:4
WI1 antenna connector: U.FL
WI2 chip1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9980
WI2 802dot11 protocols: bgn
WI2 MIMO config: 4x4:4
WI2 antenna connector: U.FL
ETH chip1: Qualcomm IPQ8064
Switch: Qualcomm Atheros QCA8337
LAN speed: 1GbE
LAN ports: 4
WAN speed: 1GbE
WAN ports: 1
abgn+ac
Additional chips
2.4GHz Power Amplifier Module;Skyworks;SE2623L;;4;
5GHz Power Amplifier Module;Skyworks;SKY85405;;4;
TPFirmware supported: DD-WRT • (List), OpenWrt • (List | Dev | DLs), LEDE Project (obsolete, OpenWrt) • (List)
Flags: Wave2, MU-MIMO
Default SSID: LinksysXXXXX (18 addl. devices)
, LinksysXXXXX_5GHz (3 addl. devices)
Default login user: blank
Default login password: admin
blank:admin credentials used by 289 additional devices
of which 142 are Linksys devices
For a list of all currently documented Qualcomm chipsets with specifications, see Qualcomm.
For a list of all currently documented Qualcomm Atheros (QCA) chipsets with specifications, see Qualcomm Atheros.
- • 1733 Mbps - 4-stream 802.11ac device (433Mbps per stream),
- • 800 Mbps - max. PHY rate for the 40MHz wide 2.4GHz channel = 2600 Mbps class
Max-Stream AC2600 MU-MIMO Smart Wi-Fi Router
- Product page (Belkin/Linksys) • Support page
"EWW604-B1-L5 REV:205 (XC)" is silkscreened on the board in the photos.
- It's CyberTAN manufactured EWW604 (via the Wayback Machine) variant.
"EWW604-B1-L5 REV:305 (XD)" is silkscreened on one newer revision unit.
- Wi-Fi Certified : WFA59270 (as of 04/14/2015)
Reviews
Forum threads
Third-party firmware support notes
Newer units don't have a populated serial header and have newer firmware
- which explicitly locks you out from flashing third-party firmware.
This necessitates flashing manually via TFTP in U-Boot (see here).
See also
