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I was at $150 a year ago for an edgemax router + one of the long-range access points (i added a second ap, but for comparison's sake, that was the cost for thos

I was at $150 a year ago for an edgemax router + one of the long-range access points (i added a second ap, but for comparison's sake, that was the cost for those 2 components), which gave me an open-source router os (vyos) out of the box. I'm not sure what the cheaper option is once figuring in your own time-cost to hack openwrt in, but it's hard to imagine it would be some dollar-sum that really deserves this much angst.

wtallis 8y ago
> I'm not sure what the cheaper option is once figuring in your own time-cost to hack openwrt in, but it's hard to imagine it would be some dollar-sum that really deserves this much angst. WTF? Angst!? It takes minutes to install and configure OpenWRT on supported hardware. You upload the OpenWRT firmware like any manufacturer-provided firmware update, and after it's beeen flashed the router reboots into OpenWRT. The added time cost compared to learning and configuring any other router OS is negligible.