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Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by BikiniPrince »

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

Gl.Inet ships with their openwrt version. I have the last version and it can be flashed to vanilla openwrt or one a high speed branch. It’s been good and fast. I don’t need wifi 7 yet so I have time.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by ssl-3 »

aborsy wrote: post #72
ssl-3 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe so. The documentation seems to be all over the map, and the GUI suggests using "attended sysupgrade" for upgrades. ...which I tried doing, a week or so ago, for a minor point release update within the 25.12.x series. And then the router went out to lunch and didn't come back. Getting it going again wasn't so bad as such things go. My router has a huge advantage here in that it's a Raspberry Pi 4, so it's easy t…

Yeah, for non-X86 devices, getting to U-boot with pressing a combination of PINs in particular order and conditions and releasing at right time is a pain. I think I wasted $100,000 in salary for $100 more in device cost, in setting up an OpenWRT router. Apart from installation and upgrades, the OS itself is nice, very flexible and capable.

Well-said.

I've got other options for routing hardware and software (of course I do), but I generally keeping using OpenWRT. Looking back, it seems like I've had it around in some form or other in active use for about 20 years so far.

Part of what keeps it around is the flexibility and the home-network-centric hack-value. I mean, this whole thing grew out of a shell injection exploit on a Linksys WRT54G. :)

Anyway, it can keep whatever counts as a slow WAN connection today feeling responsive and quick with cake SQM, even while loaded heavy with traffic and users. It's nice in that way, even though enterprise types don't seem to be interested in that kind of thing at all.

I could take a nice Juniper router home from work to use instead and it would absolutely trounce the packet-forwarding performance of my cheap OpenWRT box...while also doing nothing at all to make my home-gamer WAN limitations more tolerable.

So OpenWRT is still my answer, with the warts and upgrade woes and all.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by PaulKeeble »

hylaride wrote: post #70
PaulKeeble wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The other devices based on the same filogic chip do have dual 2.5Gbps at least. You can get a Wifi 7 device and 2x2.5GBps with Wifi 7 support already with the Asus BT8 and a few other devices. Asus's bootloader firmware flasher will take the initial OpenWRT image so its really quite simple to get going.

How will it handle PPPoE at gigabit speeds? I've been wanting to replace by terrible router from my ISP, but the options that can handle gigabit+ PPPoE are limited.

Very well, IIRC I have measured its capability to route at about 16gbps IIRC although that isn't PPPoE just the usual iperf test, it handles my 1.2gbps without any drama.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by manbart »

c0l0 wrote: post #53
aborsy wrote: post #22

How about OPNSense on open hardware of your choice, and passing messy wireless to separate AP? OpenWRT is very good, but the installation and upgrades are not easy. There is a zoo of images for different hardware, installation options and tools. It has to run on small devices, so there are limitations. The documentation on Wiki is scattered and could be improved. I had to search forums for weeks for a custom package…

Your OpenWrt ecosystem knowledge seems oudated; upgrades are a solved problem since the advent of "Attended Sysupgrade": https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/attended.sy... It's been included in all suitable default image configurations starting with OpenWrt release 25.12. I do run OpenWrt on my x86-based router, on my AP, and even on my managed switches, and have no regrets.

What switches are you running it on?

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by julkali »

drnick1 wrote: post #54
aborsy wrote: post #22

How about OPNSense on open hardware of your choice, and passing messy wireless to separate AP? OpenWRT is very good, but the installation and upgrades are not easy. There is a zoo of images for different hardware, installation options and tools. It has to run on small devices, so there are limitations. The documentation on Wiki is scattered and could be improved. I had to search forums for weeks for a custom package…

> How about OPNSense on open hardware of your choice Yes, it's a possibility, but if you want to tinker, I think a plain Linux distro like Debian is better. Turning it into a router is literally a couple of kernel parameters and a few iptables rules to set up NAT. Nowadays that's less than fives minutes of work with Claude. This buys you much better performance and hardware compatibility relative to a BSD system, as…

Please support your claim about (networking) performance of BSD-based systems and Linux with some source(s). It surprised me. Thank you.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by eisa01 »

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

Would you be able to set this up as a simple mesh with two units?

I have two old Amplifi HD units in wireless backhaul mesh that I’d like to upgrade

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by drdexebtjl »

naturalmovement wrote: post #12
kennywinker wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

But you can already do that with existing hardware that is 4x capable at the same price point, and runs OpenWRT. A reference platform makes no sense for OpenWRT as by its nature it runs on dozens upon dozens of different hardware, all which are different and must be tested independently.

Which hardware is 4x capable at the same price point and runs OpenWRT?

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by arwhatever »

I became interested in OpenWrt when I noticed that the cloud portal for my ISP reported to me the names and types of devices that were associated to my home access point/router.

Suddenly I want to put every IPS device into dumb bridge mode, and run my own damn router.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by vsviridov »

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

Why do they always have to look like some unholy blend of a cybernetic spider and a Knight Rider? What happened to a plain unassuming looking piece of industrial hardware...

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by pizlonator »

What a coincidence to see this on the front page!

I just received my OpenWrt One because I’m tired of dealing with the questionable quality of most routers.

And I don’t feel like resurrecting my old PC that I used as a router for a while. I stopped doing that because it’s loud. Pretty sure the power supply fan is about to fly off.

But Qualcomm WiFi pci card with giant antenna in a dirt cheap PC running ancient Ubuntu and a simple hostapd setup is so far the most reliable WiFi router I’ve ever had. I hope openwrt one is even better :-)

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