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before buying expensive routers check OpenWRT's table of hardware and buy one that is supported by the current OpenWRT release and has decent specs. There is a detailed installation guide for each supported device in the wiki too so there are no excuses it's dead simple. Free yourself from stupid hardware manufacturers and their planed obsolescence products.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It comes down to specs and your needs but these are a must in my opinion:

  1. having atleast 128 mb of storage or some way to expand it.
  2. 256 mb of memory or more
  3. suppot WiFi 6 or better 6E or 7
  4. Support for mesh protocols if you need it
  5. Decent multi core chipset if you gonna run intensive tasks on it (like VPNs or DNS filtering) etc.. the list goes on but like I said It really comes down to your needs ( on a side note consider read the details and installation guide page before buying some brands and models are easier than others to tinker with for sure)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is a helpful starting place, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

You're welcome. Sorry I didn't named some specific devices but that's because device availability and price changes drastically region to region so something maybe a great deal where I live but that may not be the case for you or the other way around.that said Xiaomi and some Hauwei maybe tp-link devices are the best bang for the buck in my corner of the world look into those maybe that's the case for you too. Also Here is the new version of the table of hardware with more details