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Open source router firmware project OpenWrt ships its own entirely repairable hardware (www.theregister.com)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Most of those run OpenWrt or PfSense. Assuming the hardware is well-supported by the open source software it runs, there's a argument to be made that there's no difference. There's always the risk of them using some weird chipset that won't be supported in a year's time. The only difference is that the OpenWrt One is specifically designed for OpenWrt with well-supported hardware.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

how good is openwrt these days? i used it a long time ago on tp link hardware are remember it was not too good...like adding own scripts, addons etc. and then i tried stuff like ipfire,ipcop and pfsense. pfsense was so much better and now opensense is quite good. how does current openwrt compare?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

OPNsense is like comparing a bicycle to a car (in Europe) Both will get you there,the first one is more convenient most of the time for most users,but the second one is a whole class of "more powerful". But it's far easier to take a shortcut with a bike.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

k. thanks. i really was thinking they made hughe progress now that they do dedicated hardware.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

I’ve been using it on my last 2 routers, currently the Netgear WAX206 and I’m loving it.

It does what it’s supposed to. No complaints.