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dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Same with a lot of manufacturers, unfortunately. TP-Link make great hardware that works well, but even their newest routers are based on a version of OpenWRT from 5+ years ago with a Linux 4.x kernel. This is not uncommon - the manufacturers usually get the base software from the SOC manufacturer and never update it.

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partizan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
but what is nice, many tp-link hw can run regular openwrt, which is way better than the thing they provide…

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- dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I don’t think their Omada routers support OpenWRT, unfortunately :(
  
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  - partizan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The Omada probably not. But many other tp-link routers support it, especially the low spec ones. I mean, if we are getting to something more performant and feature rich, there are probably much better options, like Turris Omnia, some Microtik stuff and many other.
    
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