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Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by hyperbovine »

pizlonator wrote: post #100

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…

"Enterprise class" wifi routers from ten years ago sell on eBay for about 1/5th as much, and work just as well for most home or small business applications.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by philamonster »

tracker1 wrote: post #50
philamonster wrote: post #32

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Recycled 4 or so WRT54G variants a couple years ago I ran Tomato on for friend's small businesses and my home in early 2000's.

I miss the Tomato UI/UX... I don't care for LUCU or OpnSense's UI by comparison... Been using OpnSense for about 8 years now though... it's just been the best option for me, I use separate commercial AP.

I used OPNSense briefly when I got 1gig synchronous fiber ~2015 at home on an old i5 desktop, which I think was shortly after the pfSense fork, and then found Mikrotik and RouterOS. Used RouterOS at home since and have been replacing aged out Cisco switches in the datacenter (100gig) and closets (20-40gig) cheaply. I'm looking to dump a handful of ASA's for OPNSense and the messing around I've done so far has been positive. It's aged nicely.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by excalibur »

all2 wrote: post #108
vsviridov wrote: post #99

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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...

The WRT54 is still one of my favorite pieces of industrial design. Small case, ~~purple~~blue and grey, two antennas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_WRT54G_series

Still have one, still works. Would happily use it if it were still practical. I think you can still load OpenWRT on them, but there's no software route around the hardware being outdated and slow.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by gruez »

hyperbovine wrote: post #121
pizlonator wrote: post #100

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…

"Enterprise class" wifi routers from ten years ago sell on eBay for about 1/5th as much, and work just as well for most home or small business applications.

Aren't they also missing security patches? I'm not sure about you, but I'd rather have SOHO routers with up to date firmware, than enterprise routers with out of date firmware.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by tapper »

IgorPartola wrote: post #112
pizlonator wrote: post #100

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…

In case it is not, an old PC with a dual port Intel NIC running OPNSense is so far the best router I have ever used. I mean rock solid performance with near zero maintenance beyond adjusting VLANs and setting up a 6in4 tunnel over the past 5 years solid. My home network is larger, more diverse, and more complex than what I suspect most people have, with several hundred devices and yet I log into the OPNSense UI maybe…

Hi I tried with OPNSense, but I use a screen reader they made a big song and dance about fixing 11y on there web interface. In the end they did fuck all. OpenWRT has bin good with a screen reader since the start and the few times I have pointed out things to be fixed they have bin fixed with in days. So yeah go OpenWRT.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by tapper »

excalibur wrote: post #123
all2 wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The WRT54 is still one of my favorite pieces of industrial design. Small case, ~~purple~~blue and grey, two antennas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_WRT54G_series

Still have one, still works. Would happily use it if it were still practical. I think you can still load OpenWRT on them, but there's no software route around the hardware being outdated and slow.

Yeah me to. I hade a WRT54G V2.2 for ages. Loved that thing. Just toslow now tho.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by tapper »

eisa01 wrote: post #96
WithinReason wrote: post #55

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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

If the routers use OpenWrt then you can use mesh.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by tapper »

IgorPartola wrote: post #114
stoltzmann wrote: post #41

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>OpenWRT is very good, but the installation and upgrades are not easy. The solution is to use image-builder and bake your config into the image.

All of that is a nope. The solution is that a router should have a standard unattended upgrade system built into it that is on by default and pulls from the stable release stream, preserves your configuration automatically with a 100% guarantee of it working, automatically falls back to the last known working image if the update fails, and has a way to notify you of what’s going on with it. This must work out of the…

hahaha You try building that all in to a small flash chip mate. Good luck!

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by tapper »

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…

Some people want a webinterface tho.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by embedding-shape »

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

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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.

I've been hunting for a good switch with at least two 10Gbps ports too, surprisingly hard to find today still. I've ended up with a XGS1250-12 (3 10Gbps ports) for now, but OpenWrt support isn't great, the ports end up 1Gbps (or some other similar problem, not sure I remember the details 100%), so still running Zyxel firmware which, well, isn't OpenWrt... Other people here might have recommendations for suitable switches with good OpenWrt support?
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