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> And yes, a lot of the time when people are setting up a router they have the router at hand. While I have no doubt that this is true for home-grade firewall/
by wolrah 4y ago
> And yes, a lot of the time when people are setting up a router they have the router at hand.
While I have no doubt that this is true for home-grade firewall/NAT/wifi combo boxes in general, with very few exceptions OpenWRT is not a thing you get out of the box nor a thing "normal people" install.
The Venn diagram of "people who have chosen to install an alternate firmware on their home network appliance" and "people who don't have an ethernet capable device around at basically all times" can't have a lot of overlap.
- jorvi 4y agoThe problem is not the fact of not having an Ethernet cable around, these days almost no laptop has an Ethernet port.
- wolrah 4y agoWhich is a problem easily solved with a cheap USB ethernet dongle, and again while the general mainstream computing audience may or may not have those I think it's reasonable to assume that the average person who has chosen to install OpenWRT probably wishes laptops still came with ethernet ports and purchased an adapter immediately or soon after. Maybe I'm wrong about that, but to me OpenWRT means geek audience, and geeks generally understand the value of a wired connection.