Iam currently using opnsense and suffer with issues, after upgrades and now even crashes on high traffic. After learning a lot, I want to change now to OpenWRT, as should be enough for my demand at home and hopefully more stable.
My demand
Basic Firewall rules for some VLANs
Wireguard
DynDNS
DNS via quad9
Adguard (like more than PIHole)
2,5GB Ethernet would be nice, WAN 1GB is fine
WLAN optional, if WIFI 6E or 7 nice as adone
Low Power consumption
WIFI is covered with TP-Link Omada runnning and Omada server on a proxmox...
That basically already all, so I assumevnot high HW requirement but would like to run the latest and good HW if cost are below 200 EUR. Is here OpenWRT One - the best option currently beside long shipping? Started to play around on small N100 I had here but I assume even to much...
Adding OMV functionality or similar are also nice to have but not mandatory. Most of my stuff is running on Proxmox server...
These? Adguardhome will need more than gigabyte RAM, no wifi7 devices yet, rest is within abilities of minimal cheap router, vpn speed depends on CPU - 100Mbps on 7621, >500Mbps on qualcommax filogic.
many thanks I thing will go for MT7986A (Filogic 830) as processor, to have long term ressource buffer.
The GL.iNet GL-MT6000(Flint 2) , OpenWRT one seem in my focus for reviewing now. Zyxel T56 seem very price attractive alternativ. Need to check on drawback... 40 EUR / 120 EUR / 140 EUR...
As shipping for Flint2 is 24h and minor discount currently, will go first with this.
Still like more DYI Design of OpenWRT One, but if thing missing can still order later... So looking forward to get closer in OpenWRT SW and get my basic function running, and see that I find no gaps vs opnsense of today and reduce my overhead of failures as of today...
Regarding installed firmware, if seems that they also used openWRT, but GUI is provided selected functionality in slightly more modern design.
Would you recommend to switch directly to or can I access both ? (WIKI: LUCI is also available for power users.)
T56 is hard to flash, through serial pins? has no poe and alot of router circuitry like voip / switch etc that presumably eats power.
Openwrt One is expensive, but is passively cooled, supports poe (and an m2 ssd m2 2230 2242 keyM )
Beryl AX (glinet 3000) is very cute comparable to the Openwrt one, but it has active cooling (fan) and no poe
glinet 6000 (flint2) is double the throughput power of the 3000, has a higher poweruse and no poe power supply function , (its overkill for my usage)
if you rely heavily on wifi it may be one of the best APs out there now
I'm thinking of buying an openwrt one since I plan to mainly use it as a poe fed AP
If you already have a device capable to install OPNsense, then most likely you can use that to install OpenWrt, however you'd probably need to check the stability since you've mentioned crashing.
Cheap routers like silence. Where am I going to buy another 10 pieces now 
