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What routers do you use?

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r00igev@@r said:
Nothing on 2 of the cores and 28% and 21% on the other 2. I have 200mbs.
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I really want to try out a NanoPi or Banana Pi at some point, the top of the range NanoPi only uses 3w at idle, 5w at 2.5Gbps and it does SQM at 1400Mbps.
 
I set up a Wireguard config for Cloudflare Warp probably a year ago for when the sharks attack again.
 
R4ziel said:
Running OpenWRT on a Cudy x6 V2 and its been running like a dream for the last year, was a bit of a mission to get going even with the firmware they supply, eventually had to get an updated file from them, but pretty happy with it so far.

The Default Cudy router had so little features and such a clunky interface i couldn't bear it
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Have you contacted them via support?

I received the AP1300 outdoor unit yesterday, but there is no image yet to disable the signature protection.

The device seems to be a good alternative to the Unifi Mesh or TP-Link EAP255
 
dvdwalt said:
Have you contacted them via support?

I received the AP1300 outdoor unit yesterday, but there is no image yet to disable the signature protection.

The device seems to be a good alternative to the Unifi Mesh or TP-Link EAP255
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Yes I contacted them via support and they were very helpful with the firmware and quite willing to help, so that solved all the issues I've been having. Not had a single issue since loading OpenWRT on the device
 
R4ziel said:
Yes I contacted them via support and they were very helpful with the firmware and quite willing to help, so that solved all the issues I've been having. Not had a single issue since loading OpenWRT on the device
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I also received a reply to my email, which was quite a surprise. Unfortunately, my request was probably a bit premature as they have not yet officially endorsed OpenWrt as an alternative for the outdoor AP1300.

I replaced my Xiaomi 4A mesh node with an X6 v2 this week and the performance is better according to the family (I think the Xiaomi had one too many drop tests :laugh:). I see that the X6 can be mounted which is another plus... unlike the Xiaomi.
 
dvdwalt said:
I also received a reply to my email, which was quite a surprise. Unfortunately, my request was probably a bit premature as they have not yet officially endorsed OpenWrt as an alternative for the outdoor AP1300.

I replaced my Xiaomi 4A mesh node with an X6 v2 this week and the performance is better according to the family (I think the Xiaomi had one too many drop tests :laugh:). I see that the X6 can be mounted which is another plus... unlike the Xiaomi.
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Yeah might be a bit premature if they don't officially support it, but their support is actually pretty impressive, which was a heck of a surprise to me
 
At our office we have some ancient NVRs which are intel atom 2 core or such with 2GB DDR3 memory, I think.

Also 4x HDD bays.

They have multiple NICs.

Used one to run OpenWRT for a while when waiting for ISP router via courier (no wifi).

Worked well and the bufferbloat plugin also seemed to work.

Been looking for an affordable little device to run it off from and also test Pfsense, IPFire, and OpnSense on it.

Amazing hardware at work for this purpose now but... belongs to work or customer.

Got 8 port devices with 2x HDD slots as well as 8x PoE ports, 2x non PoE ports and 1x SFP.

Some of the more bespoke setups have Compact Flash as the OS drive and are 4 port instead of 8.
 
r00igev@@r said:
The Cudy AX300 (WR3000) is a half decent openwrt access point.
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I have no need for it except the upgraded wifi over my hAP ac2 but it just seems like such a bargain. I know it does about 300Mbps for both SQM and Wireguard which is amazing at this price point.
 
Soul Assassin said:
I have no need for it except the upgraded wifi over my hAP ac2 but it just seems like such a bargain. I know it does about 300Mbps for both SQM and Wireguard which is amazing at this price point.
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I have them as Access Points only and do the heavy lifting on x86 upstream. Splitting the functionality gives optimal performance.
I still have this Meraki in pieces for which I need to compile the boot file.
It's s MR32 and if anyone has one please DM me. It will save me some time.
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r00igev@@r said:
I have them as Access Points only and do the heavy lifting on x86 upstream. Splitting the functionality gives optimal performance.
I still have this Meraki in pieces for which I need to compile the boot file.
It's s MR32 and if anyone has one please DM me. It will save me some time.
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Meraki has really made it impossible to flash any of their devices once it has had an over the air upgrade to their latest version.
Unless anyone has a idea on how to do this without using a soldering gun and a chip reprogrammer...
 
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