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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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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For the more rookie people, check out routers that are based on openwrt and have rookie GUI.

OpenWRT is great and powerful but unless you are trying to level your networking skills, it can turn into a biatch real quick beyond basic set up.

[–] aprehendedmerlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's interesting like which devices? Could you elaborate

[–] HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

GliNet makes great openwrt based devices, they have their own more userfriendly front end, but allow power users to enable acess to the standard openwrt features and packages under the hood.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 0 points 1 week ago

People mentioned glinet but there are others, I think even linksys and asus has a version if you don't like China based company.