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Protip: buy a router that has good openwrt (et al) support. Your hardware will live a longer and more fulfilling life!
by brnt 4y ago
Protip: buy a router that has good openwrt (et al) support. Your hardware will live a longer and more fulfilling life!
- tucosan 4y agoOpen source OS should be the industry standard for network hardware.
- cesarb 4y agoAnd make sure it has at least 16MB of flash and 128MB of RAM, if you really want it to have a long life. See https://openwrt.org/supported_devices/864_warning https://openwrt.org/supported_devices/864_warning for details.
- andreareina 4y agoThey're becoming rarer and rarer. Bought a router three years ago, could only find one model sold locally that had openwrt support. Except for the latest revision, which of course is all that was available.
- thrtythreeforty 4y agoThere's tons of perfectly functional corporate e-waste on eBay that supports openwrt, especially cloud-managed crap like Meraki that was junk when it was new. Nobody has any use for out-of-support routers, so really nice hardware (PoE, Wi-Fi 6, etc) can be had for $20 and an hour of pwning the stock image. I hate on Meraki so much because it's the epitome of something that doesn't need to be a paid subscription except for juicing customers (the hardware is great). Ubiquiti does cloud-managed the right way; you can self host and the hardware isn't bricked if you let maintenance lapse.