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I've been using a couple Teltonika routers recently. I specifically chose them because their OS is derived from OpenWRT... it's a breath of fresh air compared t

by tomxor 3y ago

I've been using a couple Teltonika routers recently. I specifically chose them because their OS is derived from OpenWRT... it's a breath of fresh air compared to the myriad consumer routers OS I've been through before which are all extremely flakey and locked down. It's also nice to not have to hack around to get a decent OS installed, feels like buying a "Laptop for Linux", but a router. I'm not sure what plain OpenWRT is like these days but RutOS is a really nice balance between "just works" and "highly configurable"... and if you really can't find what you want to do through the UI it's completely open and hackable as far as I can tell.

hypothesis 3y ago
I'll preface this by saying that I have not seen this one myself. But it is somewhat common for certain manufacturers to sell routers that claim to be OpenWrt-based/compatible, without actually being supported by vanilla OpenWrt. So you get a custom OWRT build, often with no further support, which is not that different from having a OEM firmware.
- tomxor 3y ago
  I haven't used any routers like that, and I don't know about vanilla OpenWRT support for RUTx devices, but RutOS is free and open source, continually developed, and they provide an SDK for customisation [0]. So far RutOS firmware updates have been frequent, something like monthly, and there has even been some modem firmware updates for my 5GLTE router (never saw a modem firmware update for any other modem/router i used). They are marketed towards industrial not consumer and come with the associated price tag, so maybe that has something to do with it. They also use the same OS across all their devices so it makes sense that it's in continuous development. I was specifically looking for a 5GLTE modem/router when I came across teltonkia, at the time there was no other 5GLTE modem/router available that could run OpenWRT or similar, it was closed source unknowns all around except for them, so I was pretty happy to find them. [0] https://wiki.teltonika-networks.com/view/RUTOS_Software_Development_Kit_instructions https://wiki.teltonika-networks.com/view/RUTOS_Software_Deve...

by tomxor 3y ago

hypothesis 3y ago

I'll preface this by saying that I have not seen this one myself. But it is somewhat common for certain manufacturers to sell routers that claim to be OpenWrt-based/compatible, without actually being supported by vanilla OpenWrt. So you get a custom OWRT build, often with no further support, which is not that different from having a OEM firmware.

tomxor 3y ago
I haven't used any routers like that, and I don't know about vanilla OpenWRT support for RUTx devices, but RutOS is free and open source, continually developed, and they provide an SDK for customisation [0]. So far RutOS firmware updates have been frequent, something like monthly, and there has even been some modem firmware updates for my 5GLTE router (never saw a modem firmware update for any other modem/router i used). They are marketed towards industrial not consumer and come with the associated price tag, so maybe that has something to do with it. They also use the same OS across all their devices so it makes sense that it's in continuous development. I was specifically looking for a 5GLTE modem/router when I came across teltonkia, at the time there was no other 5GLTE modem/router available that could run OpenWRT or similar, it was closed source unknowns all around except for them, so I was pretty happy to find them. [0] https://wiki.teltonika-networks.com/view/RUTOS_Software_Development_Kit_instructions https://wiki.teltonika-networks.com/view/RUTOS_Software_Deve...