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Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by palata »

bana-io wrote: post #257
gnyman wrote: post #211

If someone is interested in open hardware running openwrt, also check out Turris. https://www.turris.com/en/ 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.

Are you certain this is running OpenWRT? As in, can I get a OpenWRT build and flash it to the router and have it work?

They maintain their own fork and they say that they contribute stuff upstream (not sure how much, though).

Last time I checked (a couple years ago), it seemed that I could use OpenWRT but I would lose some functionality (was it the FTT maybe?).

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Post by drewfax »

h4kunamata wrote: post #203

I have an ASUS RT-AX53U running OpenWRT for a few years now. I bought it, turned it on and flashed it out of the box lmao I like the idea of having their own hardware but it is not easy to get, so buying normal ones and flashing them still the best option.

I too use ASUS RT-AX53U. Decent hardware. But stock firmware was terribly slow. IPv6 didn't even work.

I heard OpenWrt when I searched how to fix the stock firmware. Flashed it and never turned back. Now, OpenWrt is a critical infra in my house for adblocking, DoH, Firewall, Network Segmentation etc. None of these are possible with the stock firmware.

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Post by HumblyTossed »

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.

I used corner reflectors made from roof flashing and cardboard on mine. Worked really well to get the signal from one corner of my apt to the other.

Re: OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Post by Palomides »

sigio wrote: post #248

I'd love to see more OpenWRT hardware that was capable of 2x2.5, 2x5 or 2x10gbit without any wifi, preferably in a case that can be rackmounted without too much trouble (so keeping it under 1U height). I'm currently running a stack of Zyxel T5600's, which are quite capable arm64 openwrt boxes. Those in a rackmount but with sodimm support or in 8+GB ram versions (and some sata/nvme storage, USB3) would be amazing.

you can install openwrt on basically any x86 mini-pc, works fine

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Post by ungreased0675 »

vsviridov wrote: post #99
WithinReason wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

It would be great if more companies adopted standardized shapes like the 10” mini-rack format.

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Post by cduzz »

walrus01 wrote: post #256
cduzz wrote: post #181

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I have been extremely happy with cisco 3802 access points purchased on ebay for $25 each. Sure, it's only wifi5, but they're pretty solid and you can just deploy a swarm of them. And they don't look fugly. It is a tremendous shame that cisco hasn't opensourced / unlocked this generation of kit.

TBH if I wanted a bunch of closed source 802.11ac (2017 era) AP purchased on eBay, I would go for Unifi stuff far before Cisco. There's a plethora of it available from decommissioned sites.

I didn't look at those; do they support running some controller thing in one of the APs to allow central management of all the nodes?

Cisco's mobility express just runs on one of the APs and can fail over to another of the APs; it's a slick piece of software.

And yes, it isn't open source, which is a real shame since cisco's killed it (as far as I can tell) and it probably represents an enormous and sophisticated investment in effort and engineering and it'll just melt into entropy.

I loath cisco and don't recommend their kit lightly. In this one case, they seem to have accidentally made (for my use case, running 5 APs at home) a perfect product. They're cheap, extremely reliable, my wife doesn't hate them (though mostly they're in the attic or basement; only one is visible), they've got a (relatively) easy to use UI that manages all of them at once, and (Except for the switch 2) they seem to just work even though I've got vlans and lots of SSIDs and other goofy stuff).

If I had a simpler house to support, I'd just get a single WRT capable "big fast" router / AP...

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Post by stasomatic »

faster wrote: post #202
stasomatic wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got the Flint 3 because I wanted 6E for my Quest 3. It’s not bad, but still doesn’t reach enough through the walls. What I like about GL.Inet UI is that it’s very easy to set up WireGuard /OpenVPN profiles per MAC, and you can drop into LuCi for more advanced stuff.

Doesn't the Flint 3 require a binary blob to run the broadcom chip? If so you'll always have a locked down black box inside your "open" system. I got the Flint 2 to avoid that, and I'm really happy with it for the reasons you mentioned.

I am not a purist on the blob situation, there is no time to chase each one... GL.Inet folks seem to be good people, the product works.

BTW, even though there are mentions that OpenVPN is accelerated on this router, WireGuard is still times faster. I had to switch from ExpressVPN to Proton as ExpressVPN doesn't support WG profiles.

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