BrightCandle

The Asus BT8 is a wifi 7 router supported by openWRT and there is quite a few of us running it. I think generally OpenWRT is a good way to go and the Table of Hardware on the OpenWRT site will give you a dizzying array of options for wifi 6 and 7 devices that are supported and you get to pick your spec and price from those available.

You might need the modem device if you are using cable, otherwise its FTTH or DSL then you wont.

If you search for OpenWRT tutorials on youtube you will find a McFly or something like that name and he has a bunch of tutorials on how to set up OpenWRT and a range of more advanced networking topics and how to use OpenWRT to utilise them.

The entire rate of adoption of green technology is waiting on grid upgrades. There is something like 70GW’s worth of solar for corporate buildings on a waiting list for the grid connectivity to be upgraded. The ability to transfer the power is a big problem currently. We badly need more investment in the grid capacity to speed this up because we are increasingly wasting renewable energy. Wind and Solar are both being curtailed badly by various bottlenecks which can’t transfer all the production while other areas are running on gas.

At some point the project also just gets hard to maintain with AI, you burn ever increasing tokens the bigger a project gets and AI produces awful code for the purpose of maintenance by hand. Once the bugs start rolling in they realise the AI can’t fix them, they certainly can’t afford to have it constantly load the entire project as context and they don’t know how. So the projects get shut down.