Comment on US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router

Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Imhotep@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  OpenWRT

  My tplink archer has been running it for 5 years or more without issue*

  *excluding human errors

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  • melfie@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Same here. Just like a desktop Linux distro transforms a crappy, old Windows machine into something nice, OpenWRT transforms a crappy router into a powerful, often more secure device with advanced features that consumer routers don’t typically have. Consumer router firmware is pretty limiting and I’m too spoiled to ever go back at this point.

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    OK, if it runs OpenWRT, what is their problem?

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    • IMALlama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It depends who you’re trying to protect. Joe consumer doesn’t know what OpenWRT is.

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  • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Will this still allow a mesh setup?

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    • festus@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You can basically do anything in OpenWRT, and if my memory is right a mesh setup is possible too. It may not be easy to setup, but it’s possible.

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      • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Thank you for the information.

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• festus@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yes; it’s pretty trivial to flash something like OpenWRT on them as they don’t restrict what you can install whatsoever.

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