New on OpenWrt which router to buy please?

Hi,
For a small appartement in France but 6 or 7 connected devices I need an openWRT router with WiFi. Also in order to replace ISP box.

I want to buy the "TP-Link AC1900 Smart WiFi Router (Archer A8)", is this one compatible with openWRT please ?

This router is not on the openwrt website list but it is on this one : https://www.bestreviews.guide/openwrt-router Number 5

Which firmware do I need for it please ?

TY
Manu

The Archer A8 uses little known MediaTek TP1900BN. It is not supported by OpenWrt at this time.

List of compatible hardware can be found here:
https://openwrt.org/toh/start

Does your current ISP box use an ethernet connection to the ISP broadband service, or ADSL/VDSL connection?
What is the speed of the broadband service ?

TY for your answer.

The fiber arrive to a first device called "ONT" "Optical Network Termination" and then restart on a RJ45 cable to the box.

ISP is low cost part of "SFR" called "SFR RED".

Max at my computer on RJ45 is 400/500Mb/s

I am not interested on the phone or TV features, only Internet and also USB connection for storage.

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/so-you-have-500mbps-1gbps-fiber-and-need-a-router-read-this-first/90305

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What speed do you pay for is more important then what speed you computer can handle?

I mean I have 400 download and 500 upload mesured on my computer.
I pay 13€ à month for this.

Yea…
Buy a Gbit router that is in the Table of Hardware list, then you will be happy.

No, most "Gbit router[s]" won't do anything close to the required speeds (~500 MBit/s), the below applies:

Buy a expensive Gbit router then.

Or I keep my crappy ISP Box with its bugs...

You could buy this Dual Gigabit Ethernet Carrier board + CM4 non-WiFi module and install OpenWrt System by Seeed. They compile images everyday. I use this board to realize applications such as NAS, VPN, Home Assistant, Adguard Home. The board has 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports and they both reach up to 1Gbps speeds.

Although the above can only do Ethernet, The other option would be to use Dual Gigabit Ethernet Carrier board + CM4 WiFi module. By using this, the above-mentioned features and wireless routing can be achieved.

There is another option to run the above OpenWrt system by Seeed, and that is the ODYSSEY - X86J4125 board. It will be much more powerful than the CM4 board to run OpenWrt, also having Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports.