First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released
First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released
Today, we at SFC, along with our OpenWrt member project, announce the production release of the OpenWrt One. This is the first wireless Internet router designed and built with your software freedom and right to repair in mind. The OpenWrt One will never be locked down and is forever unbrickable. ...
No love for Turris? They've basically just added an easier web management UI alongside lUCI and their devices are specifically designed to run OpenWRT. Also they've sent a fair amount of patches to upstream (search the OpenWRT git repos for authors with @nic.cz email addresses)
I’ve been waiting for them to update the hardware of the Omni’s but they are taking their sweet time.
As it stands I won’t buy a router for that price that is like 5 or 6 years old (or even older?)
Love my Turris Omnia Router.
Oooooooooo I've not heard of them before! Thanks for the link
Seems like pretty old hardware.
Uh, if you’re wanting to go above 1G, this thing is not going to cut the mustard. Seriously, why would they give it a 2.5G WAN port paired with a 1G LAN port? That’s so dumb.
It’s not the other way around? It says the 2.5Gbe port has PoE, I thought that sold be for LAN
I mean either way you’re gonna bottleneck on the 1G port
Ooooof lol hello engineers???
I can see benefit in the 2.5G on the LAN side if you connect a disk to the USB port and have it function as a NAS. It gives you enough bandwidth for the full WAN speed plus headroom for that.
I agree I'd still prefer 2x 2.5G though.
I can't believe this only happened now. Like, why not skip the os, firmware, or whatever it's called? Sounds like a lazy man's dream.
The two things that decide this device is not for me:
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WiFi 6 when 7 is already in the shops. The wifi portion of the router will be obsolete very soon.
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I need one uplink and 3-4 ethernet ports. Consumer WiFi routers have this.
So I'm just staying patient for my eventual upgrade from WiFi 5 to 7. I'd been more interested in a non brickable OpenWrt 1+4/8 ethernet device and get me a separate WiFi bridge.
I'm not sure WiFi 6 will be "obsolete" in even 10 years, let alone 'soon'. I'm still using AC just fine at home. If your ISP sucks as much as most, you won't benefit from much anyway. Maybe the new frequencies could help for apartment dwellers, or the intranet speeds could help if you transfer a lot to and from a home NAS?
I agree that "obsolete" is an exaggeration, but from my point of view I'm making an upgrade from WiFi 5. WiFi 7 has way better throughout and possibly better real life coverage than 6, so I have no reason to settle with WiFi 6 when 7 is about to be readily available. I live in an apartment with plenty of competitors for the frequencies with good internet speed and plenty of NAS-ish use. And as mentioned, I was only sharing my personal reasons for why this isn't a box for me. Maybe it is great for you and I'd be happy to learn more about your use case.
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I remember when linksys said that
Been following this for a while! I’m getting one!
Uh why should I buy this instead of any other SBC?
I'd like to replace my router as it's only acting as a PPPoE modem for my pfSense box - this looks a bit of overkill, but interested if there's other (open) options?