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What are good wireless routers in April 2024? What criteria would you use to choose one? What about mesh routers? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

How hard is it to put openwrt on any old commodity router if it's on the compatible devices list? Is it basically just using the old router's firmware update page and loading the openwrt firmware image?

Thinking about gifting a new wifi access point for one of my friends with a crap router that doesn't even support 5ghz channels

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

There is usually a per-router guide on installation. Sometimes you can just use the built-in firmware flashing interface, sometimes you have to do funny things like do that twice in a row, sometimes you need to access a special interface.