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Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by hoherd »

aidenn0 wrote: post #16
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.

A 5 port 2.5GbE switch would upgrade this to 5 total ports (4x 2.5GbE), and costs less than $100. If you only need 1GbE then it's even cheaper. Outside of home-labs, it's rare for me to see any devices connected to the LAN side of a wireless router these days, and more than 1 (i.e. the non-portable device that is closest to the router) is exceedingly rare.

Chaining a switch off the gateway is the best way to do it anyway. If you do that, then when you reboot your gateway, your lan devices do not lose their physical link and can continue talking to each other.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by txrx0000 »

naturalmovement wrote: post #4

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The government wants ban the "cheap commodity hardware" you speak of because they're having a hard time putting backdoors into routers that are already pwned by the Chinese: https://www.fcc.gov/faqs-recent-updates-fcc-covered-list-reg...

We'll have to make our own hardware. The value of open-source hardware is not limited to repairability. We want the entire digital communication hardware + software stack to be transparent and fully reproducible. These open-source efforts will eventually include the ASIC designs, and designs for the fab production line that makes the ASICs.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by ssl-3 »

petee wrote: post #75
ssl-3 wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With OpenWRT, the network interfaces are whatever you want them to be. That's one of the perks. :)

Ok, so your wan is 1gig, and your lan 2.5...handy but not much of a perk. Lets just call this an AP, which would clear up many issues people seem to have with it

It depends.

It'd be handy for me: The fastest WAN pipe I can get is less than a gigabit while my LAN is still gigabit. I can't be the only person with this situation, wherein: If anything, then the 2.5-gig port is overkill.

I don't have any direct interest in the wifi radio that the box includes (I already have Mikrotik APs that I like just fine), except to configure it as a failover station-mode interface to use with a phone hotspot when the DOCSIS connection is on the fritz.

...which doesn't happen often at all, but it's annoying when it does happen. It's nice to be able to work around problems like that with OpenWRT.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by jburgess777 »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #48
routelastresort wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hopefully, dual 2.5gbe too?

I'm hoping for one with at least two 10Gbps ethernet ports (one for upstream, one for downstream). Ideally more, but two would be great.

You might be interested in the Turris Omnia NG which has two 10g SFP+ ports:

https://www.turris.com/en/products/omnia-NG-wired/

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by sourweasel »

hylaride wrote: post #64

Does it have hardware PPPoE offloading? Because it's a huge issue for those of us stuck with old-school telecoms for our fibre connections. Doing PPPoE at gigabit speeds needs something that can handle it.

Have you looked at the BPI-R4? It's a pricier option than the OpenWRT One, but it has excellent hw acceleration for networking tasks. I am 90% sure I recall someone reporting using it for a 2.5Gbps PPPoE connection and it handled it. It's also supported by the OpenMPTCProuter project if you need network aggregation support.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by da768 »

WithinReason wrote: post #55
PaulKeeble wrote: post #17

They are working on an OpenWRT Two at the moment which will be Wifi 7. OpenWRT runs on a lot of hardware and its a great way to extend the life of a router past the manufacturers patches as well as gain a lot of capabilities. I wouldn't buy a commercial router that wasn't supported by OpenWRT now.

The planned specs are here, they say it will be made by GL.iNet: https://openwrt.org/voting/2025-02-12-openwrt-two Otherwise this router from GL.iNet has OpenWRT preinstalled, Wifi 7, 5x2.5G: http://www.gl-inet.com/en-gb/products/gl-be9300

Latest speculation would be that they don't have a manufacturer anymore https://www.reddit.com/r/openwrt/comments/1rnr0sv/what_happe...

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by linsomniac »

baggachipz wrote: post #30
mohaine wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure the software side of the project is a direct descendent from the WRT54G stack. LinkSys got sued to release the firmware as it was GPL linked. This dump got modified to make the WRT54G way more powerful than LinkSys ever planned but they got to sell the hardware for years more than would have been expected at the time.

Yeah, I loved it because it allowed me to boost the signal above FCC-approved power requirements and saturate my house with that sweet 2.4GHz connection everywhere.

It is basically always better to run more APs at lower power in the areas where you need coverage, than to boost the power. Especially today with the radio spectrum being so congested.

Despite this, I could expect 3-5 people to hunt me down at PyCon when I was running the wireless to tell me that I had misconfigured the wifi because it was set to low power. More reports of that than reports of wifi not working, IIRC. ;-)

(I was running the wireless because the people we paid do to the wifi would just set up one or two APs and crank the power)

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by srik »

boobsbr wrote: post #21
baggachipz wrote: post #13

Off topic, but what amuses me about the "Wrt" name is that it was originally alternate firmware for the Linksys WRT54G router from 25 years ago. The name has stuck for whatever reason; I guess since only geeks use it and know what it is.

I still have a WRT54GL sitting in a box somewhere.

Used to work for that model. Great device for it’s time.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by merbanan »

hylaride wrote: post #64

Does it have hardware PPPoE offloading? Because it's a huge issue for those of us stuck with old-school telecoms for our fibre connections. Doing PPPoE at gigabit speeds needs something that can handle it.

Yes. Mediatek SoCs have hardware acceleration support for that.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/et...

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