Just grabbed it, and it’s super clean!
Any tips as for setup of openwrt I see a lot of old issues, how is the out of the box 23.05?
WiFi is pooched. Usable on 2.4 as a guest/iot network. Use an AP for anything else. There are ongoing attempts to improve it atm.
Other than that, these are still a capable series of boxes running on a wire. Dual partitions are also a real bonus. For all intents, pretty well brick proof.
There is also a Community Build here: Divested-WRT: No-nonsense hardened builds for Linksys WRT series
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If I have a google wifi ap doing fine, will this at least shape 500/20 cable internet? Or am I better off keeping it stock?
It should be fine with that.
mine does 500/500 with sqm, BW monitoring, and other services running.
these devices are capable and well supported with all builds; the wireless is not reliably great so your config with a different unit as AP will be very good.