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OpenWrt 22.03

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Post by Glent20 »

nisa wrote: post #62
merpkz wrote: post #8

anyone can suggest a great openwrt compatible router in sub 50$ category?

if you want to solder and be on the cutting edge - mt7622 is really fast (based on arm-cortex so it's magnitudes faster than other wifi routers - wireguard is also a lot faster, reaching gigabit speeds) - xiaomi ax3200 for example is near sub https://openwrt.org/toh/xiaomi/ax3200 - how to flash via serial console: https://github.com/mikeeq/xiaomi_ax3200_openwrt one caveat at the moment: 802.11ax is? was unstable.

I got two for 48€ eatch, Euro now is cheaper than dollar so its sub 50$ for sure. Flashed and using it, its a great/cheap router for home. Really speedy, using it with Wireguard on the entire network, perfect really

Re: OpenWrt 22.03

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Post by orev »

WhyNotHugo wrote: post #121

OpenWRT is amazing, it's a regular Linux on consumer-level routing hardware. I kinda feels a bit like a BSD in some design decisions. A pain point in upgrading the OS is that packages that were previously installed need to be reinstalled. In my case, this includes `dnsmasq-full`, which is dnsmasq with DNSSEC support and a few other features that are enabled in the regular `dnsmasq` package that comes by default. So a…

On the firmware download page, there’s a link you can expand to “customize image”. You can add more packages there and get a single image with everything included. You’ll still want to backup your config beforehand, as sometimes new releases need more space so the config partition is wiped out. But that’s still much easier to restore afterwards.

Or you might also use the “attended sysupgrade” process which takes care of the firmware update directly from the device.

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