The official OpenWRT router thread

What routers do you use?

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Tried it once. It was Ok, but not my preferred platform. I run my many different routers at home, Mikrotik, Ubnt, and Linux based. From an ease of use point of view, Ubnt wins. My pure Ubuntu machine acting as a router is crap to try and keep going. Mikrotik was very difficult to set up the first time.

My go to for Routers is Mikrotik, however, Ubnt has been looking tempting for a while now. Issue is I'm getting into Cisco firewall territory now, which might be better in the long run.
 
I'm running a pfSense firewall with a few cheapie TP-Link AP's on OpenWRT /w LuCI

would not recommend for anyone unless you enjoy troubleshooting lmao
 
waylander said:
I'm running a pfSense firewall with a few cheapie TP-Link AP's on OpenWRT /w LuCI

would not recommend for anyone unless you enjoy troubleshooting lmao
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PFsense isn't that bad, very cool OS. My experience with WRT (can't remember if it was OpenWRT or DD-WRT) was basically, start system, change setting, reinstall WRT. Try again, reinstall. The reset button didn't work for some reason, so the only solution was a reinstall every time I made a mistake.
 
Genisys said:
PFsense isn't that bad, very cool OS. My experience with WRT (can't remember if it was OpenWRT or DD-WRT) was basically, start system, change setting, reinstall WRT. Try again, reinstall. The reset button didn't work for some reason, so the only solution was a reinstall every time I made a mistake.
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I love pfSense - I'm just saying the OpenWRT setup is for people who wouldn't mind spending a **** load of time getting it "just right" due to the amount of troubleshooting each individual's network topology takes.
 
Daruk said:
Not sure I get this. Are you sure you're thinking of OpenWRT?
It's really simple.
Mikrotik's routerOS on the other hand...
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Well flashing took a bit of time for each, then I had some issues with the 5Ghz radio which had zero documentation on so I had to Google for a while until I found a fix, then setting up each of them around the house (6 APs) and tuning the channels so they don't interfere was more work than YouTube will have you think... then one filled its log file with junk and went into read-only so I had to reflash it after a few months.

Once it's up, it's solid, but it takes time.
 
Daruk said:
Mikrotik's routerOS on the other hand...
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I find routerOS's abundance of documentation refreshing compared to OpenWRT where everything is community based with 4-5 revisions of every low-end cheapie router/AP needing a different firmware because the model number is the same but it has a slightly different broadcom chip which may or may not work because I have no clue what revision South Africa got (USA or UK? Aus or Russia?) lmao
 
Daruk said:
What is a "commercial" router? What makes Netgear or Linksys "commercial" routers?
What about business grade routers like Cisco? Did you perhaps mean business grade Vs home grade? If so, then TP link and Tenda are in the same league as most Netgear and Linksys routers. They are all home grade routers.

Personally I prefer tomato or DD-WRT to OpenWrt.
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Yes, Cisco and UBNT would be business grade so Netgear and Linksys would be home grade.
 
Daruk said:
Well it is purely open source - kind of expected. But if you're going for flexible then RouterOS is way superior, OpenWrt is very much dumbed down.
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100% agreed

I still love pfSense over everything though :love:
 
Genisys said:
PFsense isn't that bad, very cool OS. My experience with WRT (can't remember if it was OpenWRT or DD-WRT) was basically, start system, change setting, reinstall WRT. Try again, reinstall. The reset button didn't work for some reason, so the only solution was a reinstall every time I made a mistake.
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I am still trying to figure out the easiest way to flash an x86 system. Right now I have to use a puppy live stick!
 
Daruk said:
VPN support on RouterOS is almost non existent.
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That isn't really a big issue overall. Yes, it would have been cool to have support for WireGuard and Tinc in RouterOS, but it doesn't hurt not having them available.
 
r00igev@@r said:
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Why is DD-WRT better than OpenWRT? I used Tomato for years on a WRT54GL before it was struck by lightning. One of the most stable I ever used!!! @jannievanzyl has been promising me a replacement for years!!!!!!!
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I also preferred DD-WRT to OpenWRT when I had it running on a WRT54GL back in the days.
OpenWRT was always a bit buggy for me.
 
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