Looking for "best overall" OpenWrt router with a USB port (2023)

Hardware Questions and Recommendations
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Verizon cr1000a is probably the best router right now for those who could buy it and not afraid of serial and custom builds

10G*2, 2.5Gx2, MoCA, 2G,5G,6G radios, 4gb MMC, 2Gb RAM, usb-c

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is it officially supported already ?
probably unbuyable anywhere but US, unless you're OK with shipping it from US.

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Let me emphasize this :blush:

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Have been using two AX9000s for the past 2 weeks with 23.05.0-rc2, configured as a mesh network with its 4 (!) radios on board. One used by batman, two for a 2.4 / 5G network, and one for a guest network.

Couldn't be happier. Very quick and stable. And you throw everything you want at it - stubby, strongswan, DAWN, ddns, wireguard, batman.... it just handles them with grace with its (in router terms) powerful CPU.

Only things on my wish list are fan control, plus hardware flow offloading (not that it is slow - for sure excessively north of 1Gbps as it is and I have not done any serious benchmarking). But I can utilize everything else and Openwrt is rock solid. So like I said, couldn't be happier.

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Banana R3. No fan needed if you you use heat sinks and drill some holes in the cover plate.

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i have a BPI R3 with heatsink + fan. i only ear the fan during 5s when it boots. it only triggers if the temperature reaches a certain threshold, which it has never reached in my home...
The only problem i found with this router is the recognition of the ONT SFP, but i'm wondering if this not a general openwrt problem than a BPI R3 problem.

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Because default temperature threshold is 85C and it will never reach it.
AFAIK the fan does not turn on due to a bug.

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they turn on, i checked wit the commands :

echo 50000 > /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/trip_point_4_temp
echo 50000 > /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/trip_point_3_temp
echo 50000 > /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/trip_point_2_temp
echo 50000 > /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/trip_point_1_temp

With these commands the fan start when the temp is >=50°c

see my post here : https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/banana-pi-r3-fan-with-pwm/14406/176?u=rooot

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Yes, that was what I meant. It is a bug that the default trip points are 85 and 110 degrees celsius!
Also on my R3 there is no trip_point_3_temp and trip_point_4_temp. The fastest fan speed is through trip_point_0_temp

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I 100% agree with this..

Just got mine up and running, no muss, no fuss and screaming fast....getting a full gigabit speed without a problem and the little box barely even breaks a sweat.

I wish I had full gigabit in both directions though :frowning:

I got mine from aliexpress, the 4gb version for $90~ shipped right to my door
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256801644089213.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.29.5aef18023EeArA&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa

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Glad you like your new NanoPi R4S! Mine has been great hooked up to a Netgear GS308T switch for the home gateway, with a couple dumb AP's (one on each floor of home) and a few other Ethernet runs on wired back haul.

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I dont know man, my AX wifi router now consumes upto 38watts at full 2.5gig traffic on it.

while my mini pc with a separate wifi 6 access point from ubiquity consumes around 34watts at same 2.5gigbit traffic.

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You can try the NanoPi R4S suggested above, routing 1G no problem, flash is depending on size of your SD card, power consumption most of the time it's just 2-3W, even with more load it seldom goes beyond 5W, adding with a dedicated WiFi AP power consumption shouldn't be too high.

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N5105 oh N100?????

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Buying new? N100 definitely. They're about the same price on aliexpress, usually the 4x 2.5 GbE boxes are around US$150 barebones.

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