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GL.inet has some very nice little cheap devices that come with openwrt.
by forinti 4y ago
GL.inet has some very nice little cheap devices that come with openwrt.
- tmikaeld 4y agoWhy are some of their devices EOL if they use OpenWRT?
- suprjami 4y agoBecause companies don't make the same product forever. Why aren't Ford making the Model T anymore? Why aren't Viewsonic making CRT monitors anymore? etc
- tmikaeld 4y agoOf course I didn't mean hardware EOL, that I understand, but why discontinue software updates then?
- suprjami 4y agoBecause they're a business, not a charity. They also do this the right way and upstream device support before they sell the device, so they don't have to support it. Upstream OpenWrt are already doing it.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoFlint is their newest / highest end router, has about the compute perf. of Pi3, but has WiFi 6.
- _ink_ 4y agowow, these look indeed great. I hope I remember these when my current router dies.
- joshka 4y agoThe lagging customized OpenWRT release cycle worries me. My router is the thing I most want to be up to date with patches / fixes.
- suprjami 4y agoYou can flash upstream owrt to then. You don't have to run the vendor firmware. I buy GL.iNet devices and the first thing I do is flash upstream.