As a long term Linux user I am quite aware that technical vocabulary is all too often used to obfuscate rather than to clarify. There is an overwhelming reliance on acronyms which are all too often not explained but their meaning is just supposed to be understood.
Likely my use of the word 'setup' links back to my years of working with industrial equipment.
One first 'setup' the equipment and then one 'setup' the process. Same word with different usage - - one of the challenges in a language that doesn't easily allow precise definitions on things - - sorry!
I am aware of OpenWrt's incredible hardware flexibility. If anything it seems that its use on higher powered systems (routers) is lagging behind its longer term support on official 'routers'. In fact almost all the routers for sale through my local 'Staples' store are not supported - - - but that's a different can of worms.
You mention that
you say that your current router is over a decade old.
Well - - - I said the 'system was over 12 . . . years . . . " which is quite different.
I have used, IIRC' some 3 different routers all running some variant of dd-wrt which means that I'm sorta proficient in software setup re: dd-wrt but a total noob at openwrt - - - they may be related but they are in no way equivalent!!!
My hardware - - (I have two - - one for backup) is a NanoPi R4S 4GB.
This SoC was bought after reading some of the first months worth of posts on
and as although my new fiber install (the heavy equipment is some not that many days away from drawing in the piping with cabling to follow) is immanent I will not be subscribing at the max rate offered.
(Max rate offered looks to be either 1 Gbit or 2.5 Gbit - - - unclear - - - think the 2.5 Gbit is quite new!!) I have had to exist on a 9 Mbit down 2 Mbit up connection for some over 10 years so I'm thinking a 250 Mbit connection is going to feel HUGE for some time.
The suggestion from the nanopi r4s thread is that this machine can handle (barely IIRC) up to a Gbit so I still have a couple steps of head room from 250 MBit that I've subscribed for.
# uname -a Linux Bravo1 5.10.139 #0 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 10 02:23:20 2022 aarch64 GNU/Linux
and I'm getting complaints like
`* pkg_hash_check_unresolved: cannot find dependency kernel (= 5.10.144-1-23c3f734f8e38fe957092b233241bf3b) for kmod-usb-core'
already so I already have a kernel issue. Have asked over on the nanopic thread for advice on how to update the kernel so that I can run more software. (Seems like its a 'snapshots' vs system thing.)
Have 4 GB of memory should make it possible to run more software but I 'am' looking for guidance.
Have some dozen tabs or so open trying to understand setup.
The options are vast and not understanding what I'm doing makes things even worse.
Re - - QoS - - - reading You can browse the scripts here:qos-scriptsThere is direct LuCI-support forqos-scriptscalled:luci-app-qos. NOTE: luci-app-qoswon't start until you enable theqosInitscript within the System–>Startup tab as well as enable qos under Network–>QoS - - - it seems like I need to install both qos-scripts and luci-app-qos and then I need to enable qos in 2 different places. Further down in the troubleshooting section - - - well that section is current as of how many years ago?
Does that mean that other recommendations on there are also 'old'?
(And that's only the beginning of the questions - - - grin!)
Thank you for the welcome - - - I have been trying to read posts for about 8 or 9 months but now with an install (on less than minimal hardware) am finding that much of that reading hasn't helped my understanding much.
TIA for your assistance.