[TriLUG] Router Recommendations

[Michael Marley via TriLUG]

Instead of OpenWRT, you might want to look at the LEDE project
(https://lede-project.org/), a fork of OpenWRT.  Most of the development
activity now occurs on the fork, leaving the original OpenWRT project
fairly stagnant.  It hasn't had a stable release in almost 2 years now
and has multiple components with known security vulnerabilities.

As far as gigabit routing, only a few LEDE/OpenWRT-supported devices are
capable of such speeds considering as it doesn't support any kind of
hardware NAT.  It might be a good idea to ask on the #lede-dev IRC
channel on Freenode to see which devices can do gigabit routing these days.


On 6/29/17 6:41 PM, Thomas Delrue via TriLUG wrote:
>
> I am in the market for a new home router (wired & wifi) but hardware is
> not really my area of expertise so that's why I'm reaching out to you guys.
>
> Given the following requirements, which routers would you recommend?
> - WAN port capable of handling 1 Gbps
> - 4 (or ideally more) LAN ports capable of handling 1 Gbps
> - WiFi capability (b/g/n/... ? What am I looking for here?)
> - Ability to put OpenWRT on it to configure it to my heart's content
>
> I'm pretty serious about putting OpenWRT on it so that's a hard requirement.
>
> I've looked at https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start but again, hardware is
> not my area of expertise and so these are just names to me, nothing more.
> Have any of you done something similar? With which devices and what was
> your experience?
>
> What is the price range I'm looking at? Are we talking 100-to-200 USD or
> more?
>
>
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