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LibreRouter: Powering community networks with free and open hardware

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Re: LibreRouter: Powering community networks with free and open hardware

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Post by AndyMcConachie »

voltagex_ wrote: post #12
akerro wrote: post #3

Slightly different purpose, but it's a reminder that Omnia Turris exists: https://omnia.turris.cz/en/ 100% Open hardware, comes with OpenWRT and it is easy to modify https://forum.turris.cz/t/high-performance-configuration-upd... https://forum.turris.cz/t/omnia-on-steroids-project-your-opi...

I jumped from a Turris Omnia to Unifi kit after the Turris broke during an update (sorry, I need my stuff to work all the time). Funnily enough I miss it, but the decision to use knot as the resolver is very, very strange. The Omnia is based on the Espressobin, which is also worth looking at.

I don't like that cz.nic decided to make something so different than vanilla OpenWRT. I use my Turris Omnia with vanilla OpenWRT and it kinda works. I still have an issue with /dev/urandom failing to return anything that I'm working on.

In general I don't understand why so many commercialized open source products end up forking an OSS project and then reinventing the wheel so much. The Turris folks wrote a lot of code and spent a lot of effort that they could have used to better the OpenWRT project and I don't really understand why.

I doubt I'll buy another product from cz.nic again.

Re: LibreRouter: Powering community networks with free and open hardware

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Post by tw04 »

akerro wrote: post #3

Slightly different purpose, but it's a reminder that Omnia Turris exists: https://omnia.turris.cz/en/ 100% Open hardware, comes with OpenWRT and it is easy to modify https://forum.turris.cz/t/high-performance-configuration-upd... https://forum.turris.cz/t/omnia-on-steroids-project-your-opi...

How is it open hardware if they're using an ARM CPU? I don't see a link anywhere to the open source firmware, but I'm admittedly on mobile.

Re: LibreRouter: Powering community networks with free and open hardware

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Post by spherelot »

voltagex_ wrote: post #12
akerro wrote: post #3

Slightly different purpose, but it's a reminder that Omnia Turris exists: https://omnia.turris.cz/en/ 100% Open hardware, comes with OpenWRT and it is easy to modify https://forum.turris.cz/t/high-performance-configuration-upd... https://forum.turris.cz/t/omnia-on-steroids-project-your-opi...

I jumped from a Turris Omnia to Unifi kit after the Turris broke during an update (sorry, I need my stuff to work all the time). Funnily enough I miss it, but the decision to use knot as the resolver is very, very strange. The Omnia is based on the Espressobin, which is also worth looking at.

Mine has worked almost flawlessly since I got it 2 years ago. I have not had a single problem that a simple reboot has not fixed. The only bad thing in the device was the thingies where you screw the antennas. In my router they were somehow loose and I had to open the router case to tighten them. Otherwise I could not have been happier that I bought mine.

The turris team actually started another kickstarter project last summer: https://mox.turris.cz/en/overview/ I instantly backed that project too. Not because I needed a new router, but because I have a soft spot for any Open Source / Open Hardware projects and I wanted to support them.

Re: LibreRouter: Powering community networks with free and open hardware

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Post by xellisx »

akerro wrote: post #17
xellisx wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still have mine, but the software didn't support the IPv6 mode I needed (6rd) and ended up getting an ASUS RT-AC3200.

Turris supports ipv6 out of box, unless I misunderstood your comment?

When I tried, it supported IPv6 on static and some other modes, but not the 6RD mode, which ATT uses.

Re: LibreRouter: Powering community networks with free and open hardware

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Post by dustfinger »

I bought a libreCMC router [1] from Think Pinguin [2] years ago. The firmware is well maintained [3]. The IRC support has been excellent when needed. It is by no means a high end router, but I did not purchase it with that expectation to begin with. Overall, I have been super happy with it.

[1]: https://librecmc.org/

[2]: https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/librecmc-free-softwar...

[3]: https://gogs.librecmc.org/libreCMC/libreCMC/releases

Re: LibreRouter: Powering community networks with free and open hardware

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Post by wyldfire »

24gttghh wrote: post #2

Cool work being done here. I particularly like that it uses mini-PCIe cards as the 5Ghz antennas! [0] [0] https://librerouter.org/document/schematic-v1/

Eh? "as the antennas"? That's not what that schematic shows, is it? AFAICT there's a PCIe connection to the NIC (Atheros QCA9582), which, as an 802.11 NIC, naturally has antennas.

Re: LibreRouter: Powering community networks with free and open hardware

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Post by JustSomeNobody »

AnnoyingSwede wrote: post #10
rwj wrote: post #8

Perhaps I missed it, but did anyone see the range for these routers?

Feel free to correct me, but from memory they would be forced to stay within the <100mw range to comply with FCC in most parts of the world but with a directional antenna in both directions you can achive kms as long as no obsticles are presented.

Are you missing a 0? I thought the FCC limited it to less than 1000mW.

Re: LibreRouter: Powering community networks with free and open hardware

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Post by woah »

akerro wrote: post #3

Slightly different purpose, but it's a reminder that Omnia Turris exists: https://omnia.turris.cz/en/ 100% Open hardware, comes with OpenWRT and it is easy to modify https://forum.turris.cz/t/high-performance-configuration-upd... https://forum.turris.cz/t/omnia-on-steroids-project-your-opi...

The Turris is a luxury toy for rich techies to play around with. Librerouter is outdoor infrastructure for remote developing areas. Their purposes could not be more different and the only thing they have in common is that the both contain radios and run OpenWRT.

Re: LibreRouter: Powering community networks with free and open hardware

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Post by zokier »

Ath9k is not going to win any performance awards anymore, but it is still pretty rock solid chipset and more importantly has afaik the very best foss drivers.

Bit odd that they are basing their firmware on OpenWrt 15.05, which is over three years old now. I guess flashing in 18.xx shouldn't be that hard

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