I got a weird Chinese router called "Halo Funbox" openwrt preinstalled

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I just found this randomly in the basement. It says halo funbox on the cover. It's wifi has some china and stuff. Is this some router sold only in China? Doesn't say anything else. What even is this? It says this on title:
ZBT | OpenWrt Attitude Adjustment 12.09.1
Also this is the extra info:

Router name  ZBT
Router Model MediaTek MT7620A Evaluation Board
Firmware version OpenWrt Attitude Adjustment 12.09.1 / LuCI Trunk (0.11+svn396) 
Kernel 3.3.8

How to see the wireless chip of this btw?

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MT7620A is the SoC I guess ?

It's supported here https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.2/targets/ramips/mt7620/.

Your device could be a rebranded ZBT.

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I just flashed this, totally randomly. Not totally, I checked CPU and RAM if it's the same. And it worked. From 12 to 23.05 loll, huge. I was so afraid it was gonna brick haha :smiley:

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I'll bet, you've got some balls dude :wink:

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Actually just 10 minutes later of that, I bricked it :smiley: by changing VLAN's pretty badly. I lost ethernet.

Then I did the usual static 192.168.1.2 trick, somehow the Chinese lads made a webpage at 192.168.1.1, I uploaded the firmware there and boom, back at it again.

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It is not a "weird chinese router", it is a router supplied by Orange Telecom in Poland, the phrase "Halo Funbox" is translated roughly to "Hello Funbox" Funbox being the rebranded model of the route. These things always sucked, they are only rented out so if you buy them from someone chances are someone is footing the bill for these.

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Thanks for the info. It said some Chinese stuff in it's wifi channel mate how could I know :smiley: Although it's not really that "fun box", it's somewhat slow. I searched that on the internet and nothing came up either way so.. I don't know how I got them though. I am from Türkiye. I dont know any single Polish imported stuff here. Except for .. nutella?

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Brilliant!