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Thanks for this.

Amazon was the first link I found showing a price. Better to buy from your link.

With respect to what?

I wanted to boost the weak 5Ghz signal in my apartment (thick walls) without resorting to a repeater.

I hoped that the OpenwrtOne would boost greater range if I upgraded the detacheable antennas, but after reading a bit learned that it would not make much of a differencd from the Slate that I have with wired in antennas

Not a direct answer to your question, but if you need more ports I'd recommend getting a managed switch and using VLANs. Connect an 8-port switch to the switch to the 2.5GbE port and you've given yourself six additional ports.

Thanks!

Haven't had any issues, you can remove the radio antennas it comes with and use anything else you want to increase range. I ended up buying dome antennas and using those which have worked well. These are hackable hardware wise to do what you want with a little effort.

It has a nvme slot that some folks turn into an additional port, which can ne configured as another WAN. Heres someone making a 3d print for that: https://www.printables.com/model/1218564-openwrt-one-router-side-box-for-ethernet

https://www.bpi-shop.com/products/openwrt-one-package-combination.html

Fuck amazon

Took clicking a few links and surprisingly they're right on Amazon.

A little steep for me, but it's all your device, no BS.

Probably a dumb question but are these sold somewhere? I clicked the link but nothing jumped out at me.

@celoman @openwrt can confirm its fuck'n radget a good usb power thingo though

Can you provide a little more context on what that means? Is that really bad? Is it just bad for your usecase?

I had kinda wanted to get one of these at some point down the road as I move away from proprietary stuff in my life

I really want one, but apparently the Antenna range isn't that much better than a GL.inet Slate...

It shouldn't as it has solid thermal management

Indeed!

and make sure all static IPs are known to that DHCP server.

Better yet, only run one DHCP server per network.

@AbsolutelyNotCats I think that the approach that Openwrt has taken is amazing. It got me into self hosting and I'd be really keen to see it work with some of the home server projects like #yunohost - to bring together an all in one router/home server device to provide basic self hosted communications services for a family (email, activitypub, maybe a little bit of home assistant/nextcloud)

Here here! I flashed my first wrt-54g with dd-wrt something like 20 years ago.

I got away from it for a bit, the siren song of Google Wi-Fi was too strong. And I didn't know about openwrt.

But now I'm back and openwrt is my jam.

We on Lemmy are not most people, I assure you!

I use an OpenWRT One at home and recently flashed a Tp-link router I found at a thrift store for $7 with it for my cousins' place.

It's good stuff, and I'm not just paid to say so.

Some companies already ship their products with openwrt as standard. But like most FOSS products, it needs more advocacy and advertising from tech influencers if you really want to hit critical mainstream mass.

I prefer using something like OPNSense at my network edge, but OpenWRT belongs on every internal AP and router-being-repurposed-as-a-switch

Lazy op bot.

1. SQM (Smart Queue Management)
2. Attended Sysupgrade.
3. Policy-Based Routing (PBR).
4. mwan3 for multi-WAN failover and load balancing.
5. Travelmate.
6. adblock-fast.
7. banIP.
8. Dynamic DNS (DDNS).
9. usteer for band steering and roaming.
10. luci-app-statistics

And you are right, I am using none of these because I don't use wrt.