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OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by xattt »

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.

> I wouldn't buy a commercial router that wasn't supported by OpenWRT now.

Is there any closed-sourced firmware that exceeds OpenWRT performance on the same level of hardware?

I think that some proprietary firmware may have hardware optimizations that aren’t possible in a community-developed environment.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by ssl-3 »

kennywinker wrote: post #155
ssl-3 wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Without performing any work at all to optimize RAM usage: My all-singing, all-dancing OpenWRT router projects have always used less than 100MB of RAM. These days, they usually occupy less than 64MB. 1GB is a ton of RAM for this kind of application. :) What do you anticipate needing more for?

Blocky/pihole type stuff is what comes to front of mind, which probably fits but add anything else and now you’re hitting the limit.

How many blocklists does one need to have in order for them to use >900 megabytes of RAM?

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Post by bschwindHN »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

My first WiFi router :)

I bought it in anticipation of the Nintendo DS having WiFi capabilities, which I had never heard of before (I was like 13 or 14 then). Had to convince my parents to get broadband internet too.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by alaudet »

Been using Openwrt for years, router and access points. Any new AP I buy has to has to be supported by Openwrt. I have probably bought 7 or 8 old AP's at yard sales over the years for $5/$10 and turned them into decent wifi access points back to an Openwrt router running vlans, bandwidth monitoring, QoS, tcpdump for ssh dump with wireshark.

Just excellent, some pretty smart people in the Openwrt forum as well if you have problems.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by somat »

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.

Did WRT mean anything? Wireless RouTer?

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by Namidairo »

sourweasel wrote: post #86
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.

While they're okay on paper, they managed to burn a lot of customers in regards to the add-on wifi 7 module.

Quite a few of the modules went out without their eeprom programmed correctly, and all of them appear to be plagued by quite mediocre performance from (alleged) inadequate RF shielding on the card.

It looks like they've revised the design, but it's peeved off quite a few of the Banana Pi/Sinovoip customers who have bought them with the intention of using it as a router/ap with their R4. (It's dual-PCIe fingers with unique spacing and requires out of spec PCIe voltages, so it's only practically usable with a BPi R4.)

At the very least, the customers using them as wired-only routers are likely to be having a slightly better experience.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by evulhotdog »

buredoranna wrote: post #83

Since we're talking WiFi, I'll mention https://www.wiisfi.com/ The single best wifi reference I've found to date.

This is awesome, thank you for sharing.

This answers so many questions that I had but never had the true desire to research every niche WiFi term.

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