While I'm excited about OpenWrt, why wouldn't the ecosystem move to Raspberry Pi at this point, considering that a Pi and multiple wireless NICs can be purchased for much less than a typical access point?
My comment is getting lots of downvotes. I'd argue: - All the routers (buffalo, linksys) I've installed OpenWRT on have ended up being fairly unstable and have required reboots. The only consumer grade wifi router I've tried that seems stable is the Apple Airport Extreme. - Most home users never come close to maxing out the throughput a pi can offer. - If not a pi, perhaps another open hardware device -- seems like o…
There are some RPi like boards with a single GigE, but they suffer from having smaller developer communities, and still come up short on IO when compared to a networking platform, which will typically have 1-2GigE lanes to the SoC, integrated 2 or 3 stream 2.4 GHz WiFi and a 1-2x miniPCIe interfaces.
Right now, probably the cheapest most capable router is the Ubiqti EdgeRouterX for $50 (no wifi though). It has a 2 core/4 thread MIPS CPU that can do ~1Gbps NAT/ROuting with hardware offloads and ~500Mbps just using the CPU and DMA hardware.