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Openwrt 18.06.2 released
- vinni2 8y agoI still don’t know any good reasonably priced routers which supports Openwrt.
- gorbypark 8y agoYou can buy cheapo routers on Ali Express that have OpenWrt pre-installed...
- lgierth 8y agoThere is hundreds: https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_864 https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_864 And sub-$20 routers have been well supported for years (e.g. TP-Link TL-WR841)
- zamadatix 8y agoOut of "hundreds" I see 5-7 that look like decent home wireless routers at first glance (4+ gigabit ports, available new, b/g/n/ac, no unsupported hardware when running OpenWRT, <$150). Based on that the original statement "I still don’t know any good reasonably priced routers which supports Openwrt." is very understandable. A lot of rows != an easy list of good routers.
- bdz 8y agoXiaomi Mi WiFi is the best cheap with OpenWRT support https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Xiaomi-WIFI-Router-3-ROM-128MB-1167Mbps-Support-2-4GHz-5GHz-wi-fi-Dual-band-4/32683853540.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Xiaomi-WIFI-Router-3-ROM-128...
- paavoova 8y agoThis does not appear to be officially supported. On top of that, it appears to require one to use Xiaomi mobile software and accounts to set up the router initially prior to any flashing.
- bdz 8y agoIt's there, 3G (g as gen, not 3G mobile)
- paavoova 8y agoThe "3G" model is not the model you linked. The 3G model requires you to flash proprietary firmware and then associate the router with a Xiaomi account using mobile apps for God only knows what convoluted reason. I would not trust this router even with OpenWRT running given the amount of blobs it requires and the hoops Xiaomi makes you jump through in installing an aftermarket OS.
- bdz 8y agoOops yes wrong link, this is the good https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/9UbBYxq https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/9UbBYxq Well I use it with OpenWRT and it's perfect, no regrets especially for that price
- zamadatix 8y agoIs this a joke? The WAN and LAN ports (all 2 of them) are 100 megabit.
- bdz 8y agoOops wrong link, I have that and it has 1 gig ports https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/9UbBYxq https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/9UbBYxq
- wtallis 8y agoThe TP-Link Archer C7 has been meeting all of those criteria for years and is still readily available for under $70.
- mtarnovan 8y agoHardware encryption is on the C7 is not supported. If you have fast internet you're capped at 500mbps due to this issue: https://forum.archive.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=53703 https://forum.archive.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=53703
- wtallis 8y agoI don't see anything on that page about encryption. Are you talking about something to do with VPNs or with WiFi encryption?
- extra88 8y agoThe original post, from 2014, states > I tried using both open (no auth) and WPA/WPA2 meaning even without encryption, the TCP performance with OpenWRT was worse than the original firmware.
- mtarnovan 8y agoI should have been clearer. I was talking about two distinct issues: * lack of hardware encryption support * poor network performance (about 50% slower than with original firmware) - the issue I linked to
- wtallis 8y ago> lack of hardware encryption support I don't think that the Archer C7 hardware (or most consumer router hardware) supports any kind of encryption acceleration aside from what's built in to the WiFi radios. If you want a hardware accelerated VPN, you need to either get one of the Cavium-based Ubiquiti routers or something with a relatively high-end processor implementing AES instructions. The lower routing performance has largely been solved in 18.06 with software flow offloading.
- maximente 8y agohard to parse this statement, since the software itself is doing the lion share of making the router "good" (unless you mean wireless g/n support or something?) i've used this project to put new life into a Buffalo router that's probably 10 years old and runs way cooler and more performant than the original firmware. same with an ASUS router that's probably 6 or 7 years old.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoHardware is quite important; wireless standards keep evolving, some people care about how many ethernet ports they have, and system details (CPU, RAM, flash memory) determine performance and features (you lose a lot trying to fit your system in 32MB of flash).
- aaronmdjones 8y agoSurely you mean you lose a lot trying to fit your system in 4MiB of flash, seeing as the stock images will flash to any 8MiB device with plenty of space left for configuration and the odd extra package or seven. My grandmother has a SiteCom WLR-4000 (aka SiteCom WL-351, aka EnGenius ESR9850) and that has a 4MiB flash chip; building OpenWRT for it is a pain, but I can still get a flashable image that does everything I need it to do, including the stock web interface (LuCI), with 100k left for persistent configuration data. It even has WireGuard (kmod-wireguard, luci-app-wireguard, luci-proto-wireguard) on it for a bridge to my router at my home. When it breaks, or if I ever upgrade my WNDR3800, I'll give that to her. But for the time being it's still perfectly serviceable.
- jsight 8y agoIt depends upon your definitions of "good" and "router". If you are ok with <300 Mbps speeds, the Raspberry Pi 3B+ makes a surprisingly good router with openwrt. I suspect a lot of similar devices also work at Gbps speeds for very reasonable prices. If you also need an access point, the cost does start to increase a little, but it still isn't bad at all, IMO.
- squarefoot 8y agoThe table of hardware is a good start. https://openwrt.org/toh/start https://openwrt.org/toh/start I've converted some devices in the past, the latest one being a small TL-MR3020 box which now connects my Ethernet printer to my home AP. Though I like openwrt, the web interface could be improved (meaning: making it more clear and simpler) because the above task, although trivial, required a lot more time than it should have. Openwrt also doesn't forgive errors: on another little router I mistakenly deleted or disabled the wrong interface, and now that box is unreachable from anywhere until I'll take the time to open it and connect a serial port to reconfigure it from a terminal. But that's more of a feature :)
- treffer 8y agoUpgraded all my devices at home, worked flawlessly. Any news about 19.01?
- bubblethink 8y agoIt hasn't been branched yet. More likely a 19.0x in the middle of the year.
- platz 8y agostill running DD-WRT on an ancient Linksys WRT54GL
- tapper82 8y agoYou should really update mate. The 54gl is verry slow now and can not run the latest OpenWrt. It's not safe to have a wrt54gl in the wild. If you would like to chek out all the security bugs that have bin fixt just look at the change logs for the OpenWrt releases.
- mobilio 8y agoStill using WRT54GL, but revert it to stock firmware. Seems that new WRT like firmwares require more ram than built 16MB.
- platz 8y agouse the mini build ftp://ftp.dd-wrt.com/betas/2019/01-29-2019-r38507/broadcom/ dd-wrt.v24_mini_wrt54g
- tapper82 8y agoMy god! You mite as well leve your devices out in the street, with know passwords on them and ask members of the public to take what files thay would like! "Roll up Roll up! Here's all my data, fore you good people. come come, get what you want! come it'sa free for all!"
- mobilio 8y agoDevice is connected to ADSL provider in small village and it's only one AP on 500m radius.
- dehrmann 8y agoI used this for my grandma's wireless router. Both the hardware and OS are rock-solid, and 54mbps is plenty.
- pknopf 8y agoLinksys starting signing their updates. I tried updating my EA6350, but gave up (couldn't figure out TFTP). Which was Linksys's plan all along.
- webmobdev 8y agoI use DD-WRT. How does OpenWRT compare to it?
- joenathanone 8y agoIt's still being updated for one.
- _underfl0w_ 8y agoFor another, there are specific KRACK mitigations. Remember that little bug? [0] [0] https://www.krackattacks.com/ https://www.krackattacks.com/
- gulikoza 8y agoOpenWRT is more "linux like". It can feel like a full blown linux system. Sure, it does have a web interface, but if you're used to doing stuff by ssh, OpenWRT is great: nice text configuration files, organized root tree and pretty much any package you get on any desktop distro, if you have the necessary space on the device... I even run it in some KVM environments for intra-VM routing and firewall because it's lightweight.
- tapper82 8y agoOpenWrt has packages you can install. I use Adblock BanIP HTTPS DNS Proxy SQM GIT for downloading scripts for testing bufferbloat and line speed. https://github.com/richb-hanover/OpenWrtScripts https://github.com/richb-hanover/OpenWrtScripts
- mobilio 8y agoDD-WRT comes with GUI built-in. OpenWRT comes with command line interfaces and you need to be experienced on that.
- jsight 8y agoThere are security fixes here... is there any perspective given on how critical these are? I'm curious about the urgency of upgrading existing firewalls with the new release.
- nominated1 8y agoThis doesn't include all the additional packages available through opkg but should mostly answer your question. https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt%2Fopenwrt.git&a=search&h=refs%2Fheads%2Fopenwrt-18.06&st=commit&s=cve https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt%2Fopenwrt.git&a=search&h=...
- bubblethink 8y agoOpenwrt is so nice. Despite small teams and budgets, they power so many routers and are also good at research and new features. The sqm/fq_codel stuff alone makes it worth running openwrt. If you are not familiar with it, go to dslreports.com and run a speedtest. If you get a poor bufferbloat score, openwrt can help. A lot of vendors (even big enterprise ones) use openwrt builds for their products, but don't provide updates, documentation or sources to their customers. You'll see a lot of devices running old openwrt in the wild.
- milankragujevic 8y agowrt bufferbloat: my internet is too fast (150 mbps) for a cheap router to effectively manage the connection, meaning that unless i pay 250€ for a router, I will just slow down my Internet needlessly.
- bubblethink 8y agoI have 150 Mbps and a sub $50 router (ac-68u commonly sold by t-mobile on clearance as tm-1900) does fine with sqm without any significant loss in speed. Note that this has no open wifi drivers. So you'll need a separate AP, or use a more blob friendly distribution like dd-wrt. Or use two of these, one with blobs as AP and one without blobs running openwrt. That was a great combination under $100.
- milankragujevic 8y agoTo be honest, that router costs 28 000 RSD ( https://www.gigatron.rs/ruteri/asus_dualband_wirelessac1900_gigabit_router__rtac68u_-51253 https://www.gigatron.rs/ruteri/asus_dualband_wirelessac1900_... ) which translates in EUR to 236 EUR, so your point is not valid for outside of the USA. To get a feel for a router that costs exactly €50, see TP-Link MR3420 V5. Also, the router you mentioned (ASUS RT-AC68U has a dual core 800 MHz Broadcom processor and 256 MB RAM and 128 MB Flash storage, while most routers at 50€ have a 400 MHz Ralink/Mediatek Processor (single core) with 32MB (at most 64 MB) RAM and 4 or 8 MB SPI memory. ) I'm glad you happen to live in a country where you can obtain such a router for so little, I am not so lucky, so I use my ISP provided one that barely manages that 150 Mbps (thankfully with a Gigabit port (yes single LAN port)).
- paulcarroty 8y agoCouple of weeks ago bought Netgear 4300 N750 (300Mb+450Mb) on ebay and installed latest Openwrt. $11 - laughable price for device with 3 antennas and 5xGigE.
- c8g 8y agosecond-hand price.
- paulcarroty 8y agoIt's too small even for second-hand.
- tapper82 8y agoI updated my WRT3200acm and all is fine. New wifi drivers are better to. I all so flashed WD-N750 WDR3600 C7-v2 and a WRT1900ac
- tapper82 8y agoFor people Wanting a cheep router to run OpenWrt look on ebay for TP-Link C7 or WD-N750 The N750 is not AC tho. All my routers can run SQM on my internet and it is 220 down and 12 up.
- mtarnovan 8y agoI have a C7 with OpenWrt, but: If your internet is fast, OpenWrt is not good on the TP-Link C7, see this issue: https://forum.archive.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=53703 https://forum.archive.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=53703. I downgraded my internet from 1gbps to 500mbps because of this issue (still plenty fast, not complaining :D)
- tapper82 8y agoHi in the new build of openwrt you can use Software flow offloading.
- mtarnovan 8y agoThanks, I tried this build: https://github.com/gwlim/openwrt-sfe-flowoffload https://github.com/gwlim/openwrt-sfe-flowoffload and speeds are much improved (more than 2x, I'm getting 893.1Mbps downloads now).
- bmurphy1976 8y agoI'm not sold on the C7. I bought one, ran openwrt on it for a couple months and my children and their i-devices routinely swamped the wireless. I upgraded to a WRT3200ACM and am much happier with how it handles a large number of connections and I have no more issues. I think the C7 is a bit underpowered these days.
- whalesalad 8y agoI’m not too sure about my Archer C7 (v2). My internet connection is 400/20 and I only ever see 250-265 max down, via Ethernet. I need to disconnect everything and go direct to the modem but I really think the C7 just can’t handle it. Running DD-WRT with a modern cable modem.
- johnt15 8y agoAre there any routers supported by OpenWrt that can handle 1Gbps WAN to LAN? My current router only pulls 150Mbps and I want to keep OpenWrt due to the amount of custom network configuration that has been done.
- tyingq 8y agoEdgeRouter gets pretty close running OpenWrt. And hits your mark if you keep the stock firmware. No wifi though. https://an.undulating.space/post/180927-er_alternate_firmware_benchmarks/ https://an.undulating.space/post/180927-er_alternate_firmwar... Maybe the Turris Omnia if you need WiFi and aren't worried about cost: https://omnia.turris.cz/en/ https://omnia.turris.cz/en/ The NetGear R7800 would be somewhere between the two in cost, and reportedly does GB for wired, somewhat less over WiFi. Pretty easy to find used ones for $100USD too.
- johnt15 8y agoLooks like EdgeRouter X fits my requirements and is pretty cheap (50Eur). Thank you!
- tapper82 8y agoWRT3200acm Or build a x86 box.
- bubblethink 8y agoWhat custom config ? If you need sqm with gigabit, x86 would be a safe bet. If you want just raw throughput without additional processing, others will do that fine.
- paulcarroty 8y agoCheck Netgear devices.
- theandrewbailey 8y agoTry looking at the fast path module.[0] Your router might have some kind of Qualcomm NAT accelerator chip[1] that isn't natively supported/distributed by OpenWRT.[2] You'll have to compile your own build of OpenWRT, so it might be a bit difficult to get going. I haven't needed to do it, because my WAN connection is only 50 Mbps. [0] https://github.com/gwlim/openwrt-sfe-flowoffload https://github.com/gwlim/openwrt-sfe-flowoffload [1] https://forum.openwrt.org/t/qualcomm-fast-path-for-lede/4582 https://forum.openwrt.org/t/qualcomm-fast-path-for-lede/4582 [2] like mine https://openwrt.org/toh/wd/n750 https://openwrt.org/toh/wd/n750
- z3t4 8y agoOpenwrt was how I discovered Linux. I was just blown away by how powerful yet simple it is. I'm currently using a "real" server instead of a overpriced and slow consumer router.
- mtarnovan 8y agoAnyone know a decently priced router with 802.11ac and hardware encryption that can run OpenWRT? I currently have an TP-LINK Archer C7 with OpenWRT but VPN performance is abysmal. I don't know if my router has any hardware decryption (I would assume not) but if it does OpenWRT can't use it.
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- rendom 8y agoAsus RT-AC58U is well supported by OpenWRT (with a bit more involved installation) that uses a SOC (with 4 core ARM CPU) that is well mainlined so crypto acceleration should work. It is available for 75 €. More information on https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/asus/asus_rt-ac58u https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/asus/asus_rt-ac58u
- lavezzi 8y agoNot sure about hardware encryption but T-Mobile often offer new/refurbished TM-AC1900's for <$40, which you can easily flash to an RT-AC68U. I believe the RT-AC68U has limited support with OpenWRT: https://openwrt.org/toh/asus/rt-ac68u https://openwrt.org/toh/asus/rt-ac68u, but performance has been really good for me considering the price. edit: disregard the above. It looks like Broadcom chips can only run on the 2.4 GhZ b/g spectrum.
- dehrmann 8y agoThe might be some good used Ubiquiti devices on ebay.
- mtarnovan 8y agoI just found out that the Archer C7 now has support for both Qualcomm SFE and hardware decryption. No official builds yet (all official builds for the C7 are based on kernel 4.9 while SFE requires 4.14), but I found this: https://github.com/gwlim/openwrt-sfe-flowoffload https://github.com/gwlim/openwrt-sfe-flowoffload For me the speedup with SFE is almost x2, haven't tried hardware encryption yet. With this, I would say the C7 is an excellent router for OpenWRT.
- DaniloDias 8y agoCan anyone recommend a good SoC to start playing with OpenWRT development?
- bubblethink 8y agopcengines apu2 should be good for hacking. Very open platform (it runs coreboot). Not very cheap though.
- jlgaddis 8y agoFor development or just playing around, you can run it in a virtual machine.
- DaniloDias 8y agoDo you know if I can reliably use a compatible usb WiFi adapter with a vm?
- jsight 8y agoIt is hard to fully generalize that question, since I'm sure it varies a little bit depending on the virtualization software and how well it passes through USB devices. I don't see why it wouldn't work, though.
- ac29 8y agoAR9331 is well supported and dirt cheap.
- mobilio 8y agoRouter like TP-Link WR-741 is good one. I found routers on local classifieds for $5.
- ungzd 8y agoI have cheap router with 32 Mb RAM and 4 Mb flash (TP-Link TL-WR841N v8), and I'm not sure if I should update from 15.05.1, due to raising memory and flash requirements: https://openwrt.org/supported_devices/432_warning https://openwrt.org/supported_devices/432_warning. There's build for my router, with 3,474K sysupgrade image, so it's probably compatible. 15.05.1 is very stable, but I'm not sure about vulnerabilities it has, such as recent wifi vulnerabilities.
- neilsimp1 8y agoI'm also on 15.05, and I haven't had to touch my router for the few years I've had it since I installed 15.05. I don't know if there's any reason to even bother upgrading. Is it faster or more secure now? Better admin UI?
- tapper82 8y agoHi neilsimp1 You should defo update if you have 8 mb or more flash There has bin changes to all the things you menciond.
- josteink 8y agoWith 4MB don’t expect any persistence between reboots. Passwords, packages, etc: all gone. Definitely not recommended unless you pre-tailor your setup using imagebuilder. (Reference: latest OpenWRT on similarly capable device, D-Link DIR615.)
- hrez 8y agoIt's fine but barebone. Not much room for packages either. Configs are persistent though. Make sure to use "tiny" build.
- hrez 8y agoFYI, I had the same model on 18.06.1 and just updated to 18.06.2. It's fine so far.
- dehrmann 8y agoI was recently able to get the ~latest OpenWrt to run on my first computer, a P3 450, with minimal fuss. It doesn't hurt that the P2 is arguably the first "modern" x86 CPU. Linux distros usually support P2 and above for x86.
- greguu 8y agoThe new release still works fine on a TP-Link TL-WR1043N/ND v1 (32MB RAM, 8MB Flash). This is an old router I got from the local reuse center for $10 a few years ago. It can handle a 100 Mbps fiber connection fine and has 5 gigabit ports. Thanks Openwrt !
- hestefisk 8y agoAny reason I should pick this over Opnsense / something FreeBSD based?
- guidedlight 8y agoOpenWRT is designed home routers with cheap/slow CPU’s, a few MB of memory, and small ROM’s. If you have better equipment available to use, then sure, anything else would likely be an improvement.
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- yannovitch 8y agoPersonally, I prefer to use each platform for their strengths. I was looking for a good router which could handle high VPN speeds, while still being usable. I found for 50 bucks on ebay a "thin client" which sported an AMD cpu with AES hardware acceleration, and a PCIe socket to put an Intel 2xGBit PCIe card I had lying around. Installed pfSense on it. Works flawlessly. Use few watts (because thin client). I then found for 50 bucks on ebay a Ubiquiti Unifi AC. I haven't messed too much with it actually, because I find crazy you need to install a whole Java suite with Mongo and everything to just run the Unifi Controller to be able to configure a bit the Unifi Access Point. I'm considering putting OpenWRT on it. Though I think I will still try this Unifi Controller, because of the advanced guest capabilities, which is still not as good on OpenWRT. And then I bought a Ubiquiti Nanostation AC for a Wifi bridge. For this one, I indeed replaced official firmware with OpenWRT because I can't stand that Ubiquiti makes standard Wifi unusable to push their "Air" technology. I want standards before anything else. In the past, I "resurrected" cheap TP-Link MR3420 I had for an other project, which were bricked. Amazing that after all those years, I could still reuse hardware thanks to opensource software ! So yes, a BIG thank you to OpenWRT developers ! If any of you are out here, please receive my gratitude =)