OpenWRT

[Electric Cupcake]

Anyone else use it?

My network has been stuttering for a few weeks now, and I'm wondering if the router is starting to die. I also checked, and found my router model finally has a stable OpenWRT binary available for it. It seems a good time to try it out, since the hardware might be replaced soon anyway.

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Been using it for years on an old router, works fine.

[xSOSxHawkens]

Its fine. I used it with one router back in the day. Alternatives are DDWRT (what I prefer to use when I can) and Tomato.

I currently have two DDWRT and one Tomato up and running.

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Ursprünglich geschrieben von Electric Cupcake:

Anyone else use it?

My network has been stuttering for a few weeks now, and I'm wondering if the router is starting to die. I also checked, and found my router model finally has a stable OpenWRT binary available for it. It seems a good time to try it out, since the hardware might be replaced soon anyway.

I have questions, did you installed on hard drive or flashdrive for booting up or installed on VM or on real router (fully supports only)?

Me installed on laptop hard drive HDD no problem what so ever (even it was corrupted/bad HDD but I did spare small partition for it). I used to installed on VM but not much benefits also on flash drive it could lead to unregconized for writing and reading.

Did you configured startup scripts? This may caused issue. It would be better first installation with backup some basic configurations then use this with CAUTION. A lot of my efforts put on each try and it works just fine (normally some services come up with adblock/banip or just sqm and ethtool).

Oh some routers model it may look a like stable version for it on OpenWRT but it wasn't for example another version of Totolink X5000R on 2023 may different than original one but on the site there were obsolete firmware for it.The manufacturer had been using in 2023 a flash chip, Zbit Semiconductor part #ZB25VQ128ASIG.

[BurakZG]

I'm using OpenWRT on TP-Link router for couple of years. Very stable. A bit more difficult to configure than original TP-Link software.

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dd-wrt openwrt and tomato are good alts for an old router that comes with junk firmware

they are much lighter than stock firmware and do not force reboot or crash at all

before you try flashing it, make sure you have another router just in case it fails
or have tools to manually flash it back to stock

most newer routers have good enough hardware to support their bloated firmware without issues
but they still might have forced reboots or other options that cant be disabled

[SHAZBOT]

in the last year i tried

GL.iNet GL-SFT1200, GL.iNet GL-AXT1800(Slate AX), GL.iNet GL-SFT1200 (Opal), GL.iNet GL-MT3000 (Beryl AX), GL.iNet GL-MT300N-V2 (Mango), favorite being the mango.

i use a highly restrictive government funded isp in canada, xplornet.

when i use this softwares as well as vpn/tor, they work fine at tim hortons wifi, but at home i get stutters and throttling.