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Unfortunately it's becoming increasingly expensive to find routers for casual home usage that allow for alternative supported firmwares. A decade ago slapping t
by cmehdy 3y ago
Unfortunately it's becoming increasingly expensive to find routers for casual home usage that allow for alternative supported firmwares. A decade ago slapping tomato on something cheap would do the trick, but now with high speed internet and wifi 6 there aren't many devices having that flexibility within entry-level price ranges (at least from what I've seen in Europe and Canada).
- kelnos 3y ago[0] would seem to suggest there are 45 options for things with WiFi 6 that you can install OpenWRT on. 16 of them are supported in an actual release and don't require running a snapshot. Not amazing, to be sure, and I don't know what those devices cost, but I think the situation is less dire than your post would suggest. [0] https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_16128_ax-wifi https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_16128_ax-wifi
- londons_explore 3y agoNone of them are things your ISP will ship you free, nor things you'll find on eBay for $20. (Despite routers capable of gigabit speeds being commonly both free and available on eBay for pennies)
- mjevans 3y agoWith the price of high end routers rising the last time I needed one (that could get near to 1gbit) I went with a mini board that was well supported by OpenWRT. Some of these can also support WiFi via laptop style PCIe add-in cards. https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_single-board-computers https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_single-board-computers