OpenWrt Reviews

Social recommendations and mentions

• Anyone has any Issues accessing OpenWRT.org and its related subdomain?

  Openwrt.org has an IPv6 record. Try to disable IPv6 and see if that fixes it, you might be experiencing IPv6 routing issues from your location. - Source: Reddit / 5 days ago

• VPN on router

  If you are on a budget, take a look at MikroTik, or some more obscure Chinese routers/used known brand routers that can be flashed with OpenWRT or DD-WRT. - Source: Reddit / 12 days ago

• How do I write custom firmware for a router?

  I actually discourage rolling your own build, because it’s easy to get lazy and having to keep up with point releases and security patches and all that. As well as not being able to use stock kmod and needing your own source for modules, etc. After doing all that, just reflash back and not have to do much except check https://openwrt.org a few times a year. If there’s a new release spend a few minutes updating and... - Source: Reddit / 27 days ago

• AP with LAN

  Go to http://openwrt.org/ to verify that a device you want to purchase can be modified--whether you want to or not, to support brands that don't promote e-waste. - Source: Reddit / about 1 month ago

• Is this a good combo? I have a 800 mbps plan with xfinity. How long will these last?

  Openwrt is a good place to start for firmware modification abilities: Https://openwrt.org/. - Source: Reddit / about 1 month ago

• Turning my laptop into router

  You're better off using something like OpenWRT, which was designed for exactly this. - Source: Reddit / about 1 month ago

• Build a Linux wireless router out of spare parts in 1998

  OpenWRT [0] OTOH is actually Linux. Also very full featured, including a GUI (LuCI) that even though some times lags a little behind the command-line and config file stuff, is still pretty good. As another FreeBSD-based alternative, there's the PFSense fork OPNSense [1], which started out as a fork of PfSense after the Netgate takeover and complaints about their openness and support for the community. [0]... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• What more should I be doing more for my home network security?

  You could check if your router is supported by openwrt. - Source: Reddit / about 2 months ago

• Using mobile internet instead of paying for home internet separately?

  For anybody wanting to take this idea a little further, one can use a wireless router to connect to the phone’s hotspot and create a normal network for other devices to join. Most commercial router software isn’t designed for this, so it probably needs to be replaced with, eg, OpenWrt (indeed, here are instructions for implementing precisely this idea on OpenWrt). This provides some advantages:. - Source: Reddit / about 2 months ago

• Why is it hard to set custom DNS on OpenWRT, and how do I set it properly?

  Is "openwrt.org" being blocked by your ISP? - Source: Reddit / 2 months ago

• Loved tailscale, but need a setup help here. In EU, want IP to show up in US, for work

  Here's my recomandation. As for installing tailscale on your router, I think it's pretty safe to assume nothing is that likely to go down, but again, you can always install it on your router and on a separate computer for backup, and if by any chance the router goes down, just ask someone in your family to turn on your computer, and just make sure tailscale is set to autostart and you can temporarily still have... - Source: Reddit / 2 months ago

• Review of mine at end of 2022

  Upon discovering OpenWrt have gone through a major overhaul since the last time I looked at it, I installed it on my Linksys EA7500 and it has been smooth. - Source: Reddit / 2 months ago

• Is it normal for router to limit static IPs to 10?

  It's a software limit. Checkout if you can install openwrt on your box. You can go to the "Table of Hardware" page on openwrt.org and search for you model. - Source: Reddit / 2 months ago

• OpenWrt 22.03.3 - Service Release - 6 January 2023

  As if this announcement of an upcoming release came from someone other than openwrt.org. - Source: Reddit / 3 months ago

• OpenWrt 22.03.3 - Service Release - 6 January 2023

  Are you saying that openwrt.org is not the official page? - Source: Reddit / 3 months ago

• OpenWRT x86 good for newbies? Trying to ditch AsusMerlin

  Is OpenWRT x86 newbie and point and click friendly? any beginners guide on setting up basics, I checked openwrt.org guides but could not see any configuration details like setting up LAN or WAN, VPN, policy routing etc. - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago

• Are Amazon routers compromised?

  Put OpenWRT on it, see https://openwrt.org/ (if possible). - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago

• I work in adtech and everyone in my team use adblockers

  I've never used Netgear, but it should be well-supported from what I've read. The big players are OpenWRT, DD-WRT and Tomato. Each one of those is slightly different, but they all support a similar set of features and should be able to help you achieve something similar. Also, https://www.snbforums.com/ is a really cool and active community where you can read up on things or ask questions if you get stuck. - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago

• I don't understand netgears business plan?

  There is also FreshTomato, Advanced Tomato, OpenWRT and Asus Merlin for instance you could try. - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago

• Making my PC act as a router?

  You could run https://openwrt.org/ , a Raspberry Pi is good for an expandable router due to large memory footprint and beefy processor. It is also quite inexpensive. - Source: Reddit / 5 months ago

• Create second Wifi interface from same WiFi device

  You need a Wi-Fi AP that supports VLAN tagging. Check, if your old router that you are currently using for Wi-Fi, can be flashed to use https://advancedtomato.com or https://openwrt.org. - Source: Reddit / 5 months ago