OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router • Hacker News Board

I switched from a Google Wifi to this and found it to be just as stable, but with better range/signal strength, and easier to apply the parental controls I want.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by drdaeman » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 6:43 PM UTC

Just two Ethernet ports (1+2.5GbE), and it’s dual-band (no 6GHz)… I’m not sure who’s the target audience or what’s the use case.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by kennywinker » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 6:45 PM UTC

$106usd or $84usd without a case and antennas. That’s a solid price. Wish it had more than 1gb ram - goddamn datacenters.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by stefan_ » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 6:45 PM UTC

naturalmovement wrote: post #4

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I think the purpose is to have a simple to hack on reference platform for developers. The problem with commodity hardware is the super short lifecycles (many of them stop selling before theres an OpenWRT port), they are locked down and the manufacturers will frequently make tons of internal revisions.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by daringrain32781 » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 6:49 PM UTC

drdaeman wrote: post #6

Just two Ethernet ports (1+2.5GbE), and it’s dual-band (no 6GHz)… I’m not sure who’s the target audience or what’s the use case.

It’s for developers as far as I understand, it’s not meant to buy as a consumer router. There is far better hardware you can get that runs OpenWRT.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by kennywinker » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 6:49 PM UTC

naturalmovement wrote: post #4

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Open hardware is nice. I love that you can take a commodity router and claw back some control, but why not start with that control in the first place?