Best budget openwrt compatible router?
- Thread starter PiKe
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Do you need fast OpenVPN and if so what WAN speed? Personally I quite like the PC engines APU2’s, but you would need to add a switch and realistically an AP, also OpenVPN will cap out at 100Mbit per tunnel.
https://openwrt.org/toh/pcengines/apu2
Personally while OpenWRT is useful, if you are going down the route of an APU2 or other x86/64 based build, then you’re likely going to want to consider pfsense/opnsense or Untangle, they bring a lot more to the table in terms of options/features depending on what you need and why. Virtualisation is also an option, but I still prefer my routers bare metal, or at least to have a bare metal failover so that when you update/reboot the host, everything else can still access the internet without disruption.
https://openwrt.org/toh/pcengines/apu2
Personally while OpenWRT is useful, if you are going down the route of an APU2 or other x86/64 based build, then you’re likely going to want to consider pfsense/opnsense or Untangle, they bring a lot more to the table in terms of options/features depending on what you need and why. Virtualisation is also an option, but I still prefer my routers bare metal, or at least to have a bare metal failover so that when you update/reboot the host, everything else can still access the internet without disruption.