A hobbyist project turns a WiFi 7 router into a 320Msps software defined radio receiver.
The project, published to GitHub under the name w1700k-sdr by a developer going by h0m3us3r, describes converting a WiFi 7 router into a software defined radio capable of 320 megasamples per second. It appeared on Hacker News on October 12, 2026, where it picked up 43 points across 9 comments. The only source material available is the code repository itself and that comment thread - no separate writeup or benchmark data accompanies the listing.
SDR projects have a long tradition of repurposing hardware built for something else. RTL-SDR dongles, originally cheap DVB-T TV tuners, became a hobbyist standard for wideband radio reception once people realized their chipsets could be unlocked for general use. A 320Msps bandwidth figure, if accurate, would put this repurposed router well ahead of typical budget SDR dongles, which usually cap out in the low single-digit megasamples per second.
Forty-three points and nine comments is a respectable showing for a niche hardware hack, but it is not the kind of traction that suggests this is headed anywhere beyond the radio hobbyist corner of Hacker News.