There'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. N

There'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.