Is WRT3200ACM good with OpenWrt

Hardware Questions and Recommendations
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Hello.

I'm considering picking up the WRT3200ACM.

How well does OpenWRT run on this router. Are there any issues? Is it stable enough for me to set it and forget it?

Would I have any problems with WiFi, switch, routing etc. if I was to flash the latest version?

Are there features that are broken or missing at the moment?

I have 200/10, would this router handle SQM at these speeds?

If anyone who currently owns can shine some light on what I'm getting myself into that would be much appreciated.

Thanks

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The wrt3200acm is basically well supported and a very fast wired router. The wireless side of it however is less good, mwlwifi has always had interoperability issues (especially with IoT/ smarthome devices run by the esp8266/ esp32), has quite a few problems with DFS channels and it's completely broken for WPA3/ IEEE 802.11w. After Marvell has sold their wireless division to NXP there is little to no chance for any fixes for its firmware/ driver anymore.

Because of these challenges on the wireless side, I would not recommend to purchase it anymore - which is sad, as the device is fast, can route at 1 GBit/s line-speed and is very well supported. For the wireless devices it works with, it's also very fast - but it (most likely) won't get any fixes for the many known issues anymore.

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Ah thank you for your fast reply!

Sounds like potentially I might encounter serious unfixable WiFi issues.

Sadly, I don't have another WiFi AP and I need this device to be AiO, so this model is a no-go.

You've saved me a lot of time. Thank you. :grinning:

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I couldn't help but to notice that last official Linksys firmware was from this February. Does stock also have same WiFi issues?

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Read New official firmware wrt3200 acm

Short answer is no wpa3 and still some compatibility issues.

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