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I have been using them for years and I'm really happy. I recently bought the WiFi 6 upgrade kit for both of my turris. They "recently" released their latest version which is expensive but comes with WiFi 7 and 2.5 Gbps RJ45 and 10 Gbps SPF.
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.
There's a couple of fun examples like that. xda-developers is named after the O2 xda, a smartphone from 25 years ago that not many people ended up developing software for.
So I thoroughly destroyed the router and e-wasted it. I honestly never want an open-source router OS ever again.
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Wifi 5-7 happened, now operating at 3 different frequency ranges (2.4, 5 and 6Ghz) and using techniques like beam forming and MIMO. All those antennas need to go somewhere. If you want plain unassuming looking hardware get dedicated wifi access points and place them all over the building. There are plenty of those shaped liked big smoke detectors. If you want single device there are also quite a few trash can shaped…
Why does Wifi 5-7 require designing the case so it is shaped like an F-117 fighter jet instead of a box of candy?
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> 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.
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I mean, there is a lot of spam on the internet. But pihole asks for a pi with 512gb ram. Add openwrt’s 100mb, now your ram budget for running something else (file server, pairdrop, irc, tailscale, etc) is <400mb. One nodejs app could use all of that.
I mean: On one hand, 400MB is still a ton of RAM to do useful work with -- and unused RAM is wasted RAM. On the other hand: How many non-routing tasks do you really expect or require a ~$100 home-router-device to perform? :)
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.
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Source? A cursory check on their website shows a Hong Kong and a US address. Some people seem to be claiming mainline China associations as well, which could be true, can't find anything on that in either direction. But Israeli, no can't find that. Sure you didn't confuse it with some other company?
It looks like the person you replied to deleted their comment, but I assume it was about GL-iNet being a Chinese company. They have a tiny Hong Kong office that handles marketing as well as a US office for technical support, but the entirety of engineering and manufacturing is in Shenzhen and Chengdu. Because they provide a hosted site-to-site VPN service they are obligated to hold a B13 license. One of the condition…