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Re: Ask HN: Please recommend a router without need for a cloud account

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Post by webstrand »

dredmorbius wrote: post #9

Any system capable of running OpenWRT. https://openwrt.org/supported_devices You might find / inquire about specific devices at the OpenWRT subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/openwrt/ The Turris Omnia is priced above your preferred range, but is effectively a small server and has excellent capabilities. It runs a specifically-tuned and live-upgradable version of OpenWRT: https://www.turris.com/en/omnia/overview/

The Omnia looks really nice. But in their advertising script they claim they have "LTE antennas", does anyone know what they mean by that claim? I had thought LTE was only a term used by the cellular telecommunications industry.

Re: Ask HN: Please recommend a router without need for a cloud account

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Post by cassianoleal »

pc86 wrote: post #17
dredmorbius wrote: post #9

Any system capable of running OpenWRT. https://openwrt.org/supported_devices You might find / inquire about specific devices at the OpenWRT subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/openwrt/ The Turris Omnia is priced above your preferred range, but is effectively a small server and has excellent capabilities. It runs a specifically-tuned and live-upgradable version of OpenWRT: https://www.turris.com/en/omnia/overview/

I'd never heard of the Omnia before, I'll have to check this out it looks pretty neat!

I was also recommending it here (posted before seeing the parent): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29703321

I own one and it has not always been great. At one point their fork of OpenWRT was so different from upstream that upgrades were taking a long time and introduced lots of bugs.

Since the last major version or 2 though, they've upstreamed most of the drivers and custom code, so TurrisOS is just a few patches and packages on top of OpenWRT to better support the specific hardware and services, and it's been very stable.

One incredibly useful feature is BTRFS snapshots and the `schnapps` CLI to manage them. The hardware reset button can even be used to roll back to factory defaults, from where you can still access and restore any snapshot so it's very easy to unbrick the router if you make a mistake.

Add an M.2 NVMe card and you can run LXC containers (and in the next major release, even Docker).

Re: Ask HN: Please recommend a router without need for a cloud account

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Post by bennyp101 »

None of my TPLink, Netgear, or ASUS routers have ever needed a cloud account - I guess this is a new/regional thing?

I use Mikrotik hAP2 (~£60/$80) - if you are comfortable with that sort of thing, otherwise I guess anything that supports OpenWRT as others have said.

Have you got examples of ones that need a cloud account? I'm intrigued now

Re: Ask HN: Please recommend a router without need for a cloud account

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Post by bennyp101 »

emptybottle wrote: post #21
matdehaast wrote: post #6

Microtek hands down the best value for money.

How so?

You can pick up a hAP2 for ~£60 which gives you a LOT of configuration for the money. You can make it as simple or as complicated as you like.

The only downside is it's not exactly a point and click GUI - but for what you get for your money they are worth it

Re: Ask HN: Please recommend a router without need for a cloud account

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Post by FractalParadigm »

webstrand wrote: post #24
dredmorbius wrote: post #9

Any system capable of running OpenWRT. https://openwrt.org/supported_devices You might find / inquire about specific devices at the OpenWRT subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/openwrt/ The Turris Omnia is priced above your preferred range, but is effectively a small server and has excellent capabilities. It runs a specifically-tuned and live-upgradable version of OpenWRT: https://www.turris.com/en/omnia/overview/

The Omnia looks really nice. But in their advertising script they claim they have "LTE antennas", does anyone know what they mean by that claim? I had thought LTE was only a term used by the cellular telecommunications industry.

It's possible they mean exactly what they're writing - my ISP has an option (usually part of their business package but can be had for home users by talking to the right person) where you can rent their WiFi modem that includes LTE/5G hardware and service as a backup connection in the event the main coax line goes down.
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