> Is there a big advantage to OpenWRT as opposed to TomatoeUSB from a couple of years ago? (3+) Updated packages; more features you might not care about, but a

> Is there a big advantage to OpenWRT as opposed to TomatoeUSB from a couple of years ago? (3+) Updated packages; more features you might not care about, but also security fixes that you would care about. E.g., DropBear (the SSH server) had a vulnerability disclosed[0] 3 years ago. Do you manually updated individual packages? > Is there a way to do the same thing for cable modems? Last time I looked the outlook was pretty bleak. Not as far as I know. Furthermore, unless you own your cable modem outright, it (a) might be against your terms of service; and (b) is likely useless, as carriers can often reflash firmware remotely on their own equipment. > Is there a good way to build a better/cheaper than stock router out of cheap ARM boards like rasberry pi 2 (or even some of the more powerful boards) Generally, it is impossible to build cheaper, and extremely hard to build better. The store near my house sells a 5x1Gb/s+WiFi supported TP-Link model for $75; I'm not familiar with any way to get more than one 1Gb/s port on a cheap ARM board for that price. "Better" is often subjective, but these el-cheapo routers actually have reasonable quality hardware, and have all that you need for a good router, and nothing else (unlike e.g. the RPi2 which has a GPU, audio/video connectors, an SD card interface and a lot of other things that are not useful in a router). [0] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/12131/dropbear-ssh-server-use-after-free-vulnerability http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/12131/dropbear-s...