AnyGate has been an accustomed Korean manufacturer of network routers who has led way to ipTime and now in the doldrums
after the Korean expression of spreading business in the way of “octopus legs” venturing onto related territory including USB dongles and GPS navigation devices .
A.L.Tech was a small “venture company” established at the dawn of the Millennium in January 2000 manufacturing or OEM selling
- network routers to connect to the internet,
- multi-media machines that connect your computer with TV and home entertainment system,
- USB dongles to enable computers mobile memory storage,
they have been doing marginally well an all of the above product areas
(marginal because so many companies have joined the market with more lucrative-sounding models)
but part of their company started to split into :
- Diban was formed in 2005 by former employees in their sales department, and from Summer 2009 started selling their own line although similar to AnyGate,
- where-as NeoWiki was formed by their research and development team members, continuing to sell AnyGate line .
and A.L.Tech started consumers looped in their hide-and-seek play-around by lending part of their business to Diban in September 2008 and then several tries on co-existing on the market .
over-all, NeoWiki continues to sell AnyGate models on-line to consumers, while Diban concentrates selling whole-sale to super-mart chains .
in legal business practice when a company is gone, so is their responsibility to support their product, thus your AnyGate is obsolete however current NeoWiki seems to be taking in, but Diban considering it .
it all started getting serious when their customer and product support site stopped responding early last Summer June 2011 siting clerks were not available .. and continued throughout 2011 and finally seems to have returned somehow early 2012 in January .
if you have just bought one from a near-by super-mart : return it immediately for exchange or refund
or if you have problems, it is best currently to make your way into their office and insist on repair .
following are their current where-abouts as of February 2012
all close to each other in the new Korean i.T. technical “valley” of Kuro South-West in the out-skirts of Seoul metropolis .
main product AnyGate router website :
Oh what fun in a start-up companies expanding business told in English terms
as sub product AnyDrive (“drive” as in computer partition) USB dongle
http://www.anydrive.co.kr
is switch to mean automotive “driving” as they begin navigation system on 2008
http://www.al-tech.co.kr
split company 1 Diban product website :
http://www.goodidea.co.kr
split company 2 NeoWiki product website
http://www.smartgate.kr
Diban’s SG3300N which has a similar model number as AnyGate’s taken-on by NeoWiki, but sports a different design :
Oh, how we hate irresponsible start-up companies ..
by Korea Tech BLog, February 2012
( January 2013 Update ) after a year from this initial post, more about what happened to AnyGate’s different companies comes to light : NeoWiki went grim without replying to customer support inquiries, to eventually close . then a new company named ‘LightCom information Network’ was form last Summer, to continue selling NeoWiki’s AnyGate models, WITH its original anygate.co.kr website, introducing a full new line of wireless routers : SINGLE-antenna AnyGate F1 and RG5000R, TWO-antenna RG5200R and THREE-antenna AnyGate RG5300R. then they have been active last Christmas producing more : black SINGLE-antenna LT-150AP and LT-300Ap, and another silver-top THREE-antenna RG5500N V2.
but the confusing black-out over 2012, makes it hard for AnyGate to regain what-ever glory it shared as local Bless, Zio and Chinese Netis are squeezing-in onto monopolized ipTime wireless router market on the Korean Peninsula, mostly with tight customer support .
Hi,
I upgraded my firmware in my IP time 2008 router and was silly and hit the reset settings button (IN KOREAN… in my defense).
I am trying to flash DD-wrt to the router but no such luck…
Any idea what chipset it has so I can find the best firmware…I am trying generic mini version but I am not doing good…
Are their any koreans in seoul that flash to DD-WRT?
John In Seoul
ye ye Mr.Qualcomm, I almost had a psychological break-down on WRT54GS prior to the birth of ipTime in South Korea
and would appreciate if we don’t get into this any more since I am living a happy wired Life choosing among the myriad of ipTime models .
this Korean start-up have mostly used RaLink chips for compatibility with early laptops sold here,
and use RealTek on more enhanced – or rather tweaked – models and BOTH your H2008 and T2008 use RealTek .
the now-rare DD-WRT enthusiasts have a hard time implimenting it onto ipTime AND this AnyGate models
where some have done it with newer firmware but still unstable – better Luck with DLink and Buffalo
remember in South Korea the Valentine’s Day fad continues as Black Day on April when you are suppose to have Korean-Chinese (black, thus the name) bean-paste noodles together 😉
Thanks…
I am looking to DD-WRT an 8 port giga-bit router .Problem is no one makes any hardly with the exception of IPTIME. My buffalo G300 HP (DD-WRT) is a WAP but I have so much stuff I need more than 4 ports.
I really need an 8 port router that I guess has a broadcom chip set. Any ideas?
You are are god/goddess in Korea Tech as you know all the hard answers about Korea.
Sorry the current Real World cannot fulfill your mighty needs
so the nearest are :
– ipTime T3008 with 8 ports using RTL8198 chip
– ipTime V1016 16 ports RTL8208G x2 & RTL8324BP
I was able to get ahold of a DLINK 632A and its up and running DD-WRT. I want to figure out more how to make IPTIME flash to DD_WRT though… >..<
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I have one anygate router but can’t use it because language on korean user manual .
please if provide on English user manual .
thanks
Does anyone has the data sheets for AnyGate LT-150AP?
Want to know the operating frequency since unit detail is in Korean as attached to the device.