OpenWrt ships its own router

2x 2.5Gb and a single 1Gb would be useful, this looks like a prototype. I assume the Wi-Fi comes for free with the SoC but even that is a daft decision, and the PoE is to power it when it would be far more useful to have it (optionally with an add-in board) able to provide PoE to attached devices.

It is cheap though, I'm probably being a bit too harsh.
 
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Hopefully it'll improve with other revisions, I've always found it annoying trying to spec a router for openwrt.

I've gone down the route of separate hardware for my WiFi AP so that it can be upgraded in isolation. I think I'll end up virtualising the router on my proxmox server anyway (since I put a 4 port NIC on that, which is 1gbps but again can easily be upgraded in isolation).
 
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As the OP said cpu, would have been perfect for a Plex Server with MVMe onboard and faster quad core cpu, or anything usefull ie container or even VPN. Yeah lets hope they get a grip of it. Maybe people are too snobbish and want everything built in these days. I guess PoE makes sense with the dual core only cpu to keep the power feed low.
 
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Ad_Augendae said:
As the OP said cpu, would have been perfect for a Plex Server with MVMe onboard and faster quad core cpu, or anything usefull ie container or even VPN. Yeah lets hope they get a grip of it. Maybe people are too snobbish and want everything built in these days. I guess PoE makes sense with the dual core only cpu to keep the power feed low.
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Maybe take a look at the Gl.Inet MT6000 quad core running a (lightly skinned) OpenWrt. I think you can wipe it and put vanilla OpenWrt instead if needed.
 
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I can only echo the above sentiments. The single 2.5Gb port makes no sense, especially on WAN. At least on LAN you could argue a faster LAN connection benefits more users, and 'multi-gig' WAN connections aren't as common. The WiFi 6 is a shame too, given that AXE is a thing, and 7 will be out and 'standard' soon enough. That said, it's basically just a Banana board, and they sell much nicer and more suited boards with decent ports, SFP+ pre-made cases and bundles, etc. That's where I'd be looking if I wanted this type of thing (rather than just straight x86).
 
Mixed feelings on this, it’s reasonably priced and comes from what feels like a good place, but the hardware choices are frankly disappointing in a multi-gig world. Then again, if you view it as a gigabit capable router option, it’s not awful, and perhaps this partnership may spawn something more useful in the future.
 
I hope this doesn't give people a really bad impression of OpenWRT due to the port stuff. It is really bizarre and when this was announced months ago people had the same statements.

Really one of the best free software imo but the price is also pretty high for this. If you know what you're doing you can get Wifi 6 AX6000, a much better CPU (2 Ghz MT7986A), 2 x 2.5 Gbps ports and 4 Gigabit ports that will run openWRT for under £50.
 
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I hope this doesn't give people a really bad impression of OpenWRT due to the port stuff. It is really bizarre and when this was announced months ago people had the same statements.

Really one of the best free software imo but the price is also pretty high for this. If you know what you're doing you can get Wifi 6 AX6000, a much better CPU (2 Ghz MT7986A), 2 x 2.5 Gbps ports and 4 Gigabit ports that will run openWRT for under £50.
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Which hardware is this ?
 
lmfy2k said:
Which hardware is this ?
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Zyxel EX5601

The main reason for this is that Hyperoptic supply it as their higher tier router. There is 2 versions: a T0 and T1 but the only difference is one has a SFP cage and the other does not. Both are fully supported though. It's also very big in Netherlands selling for 30 euros for the same reason (a big NL ISP supplies them).

On that normal place you can get them pre flashed with OpenWRT (flashing yourself seems pretty hard). One seems to pop up every week or so.
 

OpenWrt Affected By Security Issue That Could Have Led To Compromised Build Artifacts - Phoronix

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A security issue was reported to the OpenWrt project this week around their Attendedsysupgrade Server (ASU) instances that could have led to compromised firmware images being served.

The good news is that it's believed no official images from downloads.openwrt.org were affected nor any custom images from the 21.10.0-rc2 release. OpenWrt developers were only able to verify the build logs for the past seven days due to automatic clean-up of older build logs. Users are thus encouraged to carry out in-place upgrades to the same version to eliminate any possibility of being affected.
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www.theregister.com

OpenWrt supply chain attack scare prompts urgent upgrades

A couple of bugs lead to a potentially bad time
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No need for this.
Should have decent and fast hardware running your primary gateway

openwrt primary running as a proxmox VM (5700u mini pc with bonded 2.5gbps usb network adapters)
openwrt secondary failover running on hardware (Linksys E8450 (UBI))
 
Subliminal Aura said:
No need for this.
Should have decent and fast hardware running your primary gateway

openwrt primary running as a proxmox VM (5700u mini pc with bonded 2.5gbps usb network adapters)
openwrt secondary failover running on hardware (Linksys E8450 (UBI))
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Hopefully end of year for the 2: https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2025-February/043722.html

The One is pretty underwhelming and the Two is kinda overkill but if I can get this for under £200 I'll bite. The Wifi 7 drivers should be pretty good come October/November release.
 
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