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Wireguard, particularly.
Except if you don't have a premium router with high-end CPU you will have minimal bandwith.
I get plenty for my needs on an Archer C7.
OpenWrt 22.03
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Re: OpenWrt 22.03
#82One question I have is: I would like my wifi router to be 100% "invisible", as in: I want the router to behave exactly as if it was an ethernet switch, where devices connected to the router via wifi would behave exactly as if they were connected to an ethernet switch. In other words configure my router such that the only difference between it and a switch is the fact that connected devices are not connected via an et…
I think you're looking for a secondary router set as a "Wireless Access Point" or "Dumb Access Point". I have the same issue, I have 2 wifi routers, with 2 subnets, and it's a pain for some devices, if I'm connected to wifi on subnet A with my phone, I can't cast Youtube to the TV if the TV is on subnet B, I have to switch networks. https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/dumbap I'm gonna try to set a WAP/DA…
Can't you disable DHCP on one of them and connect it physically to the other? Won't that make it work as a dumb AP, basically?
Re: OpenWrt 22.03
#83I do love OpenWrt but the upgrade experience is still a pain because user-installed packages need to be reinstalled manually. More so if your WAN connection relies on these packages (USB modems), then you have to either pre-download them or build a custom image.
There is a VERY elegant solution to this problem, called "attended sysupgrade", that is not as widely known as it should be.
It's probably best explained in a video on what may be the best youtube channel on OpenWrt-related things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFTPA6GkJjg
Or, if you prefer textual information: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/attended.sy... (OpenWrt's infra is kinda slow today for me, must be many people checking out the new release :))
Re: OpenWrt 22.03
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Most Mikrotik hardware is compatible and decent. I used to recommend Ubiquiti, but...
But...?
Besides their very dubious product strategy which consists of shipping the org chart, which with the apparently high turnover results in multiple competing but basically abandoned product lines..
There's the security issues. If their AWS infra for their cloud services is that shit (as was revealed by a hack by an internal person), i doubt security is taken seriously in the org in general. Not to mention them suing security reporters.
Unlike their sometimes dubious hardware QA, it doesn't impact you that much if you plan on flashing your own firmware on their hardware, but still, those are kind of turnoffs. Hardware quality seems to vary somewhat, but is mostly decent.
Re: OpenWrt 22.03
#85Tangential but on the topic of IP routers - recently my EdgeRouter X died. During autopsy, heat deformations were found on its Flash right next to an inductor for input DC-DC circuit. So, naturally I hopped onto a train and bought a used NEC UNIVERGE IX2105 to replace with; a compact, fan-less, half A4 sized sheet metal pizza box with blue accent on matte white. Functionally a Cisco ISR 892J or 1941, physically small…
I run Openwrt on an Edgerouter-X nowadays and it's rock solid. Has same/better routing perf + stability as the original ubnt firmware, but with native wireguard, full package management, a much better UI, much better configuration and backup system and no phone home stuff.
Just did the upgrade today and it was flawless. Which is much better than I can say for the stock firmware upgrade process!
It's incredible that the openwrt team can produce such a better product in pretty much every way than the original manufacturer can.
Re: OpenWrt 22.03
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Belkin RT3200, goes on sale at Walmart for $60.
Do you have this device, and if so, what's the peak bandwidth you are able to achieve over wifi?
With 80MHz channels configured (160Mhz are possible, but I do not need/want that) on the 5GHz band, I can get about 480Mbps TCP bandwidth over the air using iperf3. Client is a laptop with Intel Wireless 8260 running GNU/Linux.
Reports on the OpenWrt forums I've seen range up to ~800Mbps.
Re: OpenWrt 22.03
#87One question I have is: I would like my wifi router to be 100% "invisible", as in: I want the router to behave exactly as if it was an ethernet switch, where devices connected to the router via wifi would behave exactly as if they were connected to an ethernet switch. In other words configure my router such that the only difference between it and a switch is the fact that connected devices are not connected via an et…
Yes. If you’ve bought a consumer router, and not an “access point”, it will likely have a Ethernet port labeled WAN. Due to this label, the OpenWRT profile for this model will most likely also set up this port as a WAN port for you by default (where it requests DHCP from somewhere and applies NAT and some basic firewall rules). Just delete this interface, and make the LAN network also span the WAN port. Then disable DHCP and IPv6 RA on the LAN interface. Your router is now a dumb “access point”.
Re: OpenWrt 22.03
#88One question I have is: I would like my wifi router to be 100% "invisible", as in: I want the router to behave exactly as if it was an ethernet switch, where devices connected to the router via wifi would behave exactly as if they were connected to an ethernet switch. In other words configure my router such that the only difference between it and a switch is the fact that connected devices are not connected via an et…
Yes it does, and very well, I just deployed three Flints (GL-AX1800) to do exacly this.
Not affiliated, just a happy customer
Re: OpenWrt 22.03
#89OpenWRT is amazing. It's a great distribution that's incredibly well tailored for routers/APs. Not having to deal with whatever the manufacturer slapped together is amazing.
For those that have never tried it it's also worth it just to understand more deeply how amazing these cheap devices are. For ~100$/€ you get a single board computer, plus a managed switch, plus 1 or 2 wifi cards. The managed switch in particular is very interesting. The computer is just another connection to the managed switch and you can configure it in any way you want. Traffic can go directly from one port to another without going through the CPU.
These capabilities together make a network of OpenWRT devices really flexible. I use it to replace the included router from our Internet/TV/Phone provider. The VLANs are needed to access the different IP networks for the different services. That you could do with a normal network card but then I also use VLANs inside the house wiring to take the IPTV network to the TV box. I then use a separate SSID to carry that VLAN in a point-to-point connection to another OpenWRT AP as a client so I don't have to run wire to that place and so the broadcast traffic doesn't swamp other normal Wifi clients. All this can be done with these very cheap devices that already have all the needed hardware. For all the deserved fame RaspberryPI gets these routers are equally amazing hardware for a lot of things.
Re: OpenWrt 22.03
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Plenty of options here. I have a few and have no complaints. https://www.gl-inet.com/products/
I do as well but have a few complaints ;) glinet ship their own builds of a forked openwrt (most based on 19.x) containing proprietary patches and binaries. I got a handful of their most recent devices as of last year and all of those are officially still stuck on an ancient 19.x with several security issues that are fixed in upstream but don't make it down. Got the GL-MT1300 working with a self-built open-source Ope…
I had the same experience with a AR-750s. The GL-iNet OpenWRT image with its fancy web UI had a lot of small bugs and required some reboot from time to time to be working properly.
I completely resolved the issue by flashing the mainline OpenWRT image from openwrt.org. It has been working pretty well ever since.