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Open hardware is nice. I love that you can take a commodity router and claw back some control, but why not start with that control in the first place?

• naturalmovement 4mo ago
  But you can already do that with existing hardware that is 4x capable at the same price point, and runs OpenWRT. A reference platform makes no sense for OpenWRT as by its nature it runs on dozens upon dozens of different hardware, all which are different and must be tested independently.
  • mistercheph 4mo ago
    It will take time to build up to a point where it's competitive on paper, it's insane that you're comparing a first-gen product from a rag-tag crew to the hardware produced by behemoths that have thousands of engineers and billions of dollars to play with. Where my use cases don't permit it I won't use this, but if it fits I would rather buy an open-hardware device at ~10x the price of an equivalent proprietary device not out of charity but because that is how much more value it provides to me at equivalent hardware performance.
  • drdexebtjl 4mo ago
    Which hardware is 4x capable at the same price point and runs OpenWRT?