Openwrt One only has 1 LAN port

Hardware Questions and Recommendations
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"Openwrt One" only has 1 LAN port.

Does it mean that it targets to many wireless clients rather than cable LAN client?

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You know there are network switches, right ?

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No, it means that the designers decided against the expense and complication of adding a switch chip to the device.

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I am a home user so I rely on the router. :shushing_face:

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Then you should embrace your single LAN port, but if you reconsider, gigabit switches are 25$/€ and up.

Or buy something different.

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And down :grinning:... I see amazon listings for those little netgear 5x1Gbe ones for less than $15. (My most recently purchased switch is a 4x2.5Gbe PoE+, 2xSFP+ for $52; they're getting as cheap as dirt.)

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Well usually “home routers” are actually a router, dhcp server, firewall, switch and wifi access point packed in one box.

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Hello Friend,
Can "Openwrt One" cope with my ISP 1Gbps optical modem? :thinking:

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yes, it can.

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That is cool!
So my computer/router may not hang up while I download big adult movie files! :smiley:

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What is the practical purpose of the on-board M.2 SSD slot? :thinking:

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A couple of examples:

  • Add a SSD and configure a simple NAS.
  • Configure the SSD as ExtRoot
  • Install and boot a real Linux distribution. (Announced but not implemented as yet).
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This problem won’t really matter if you have 20Mbps or 1Gbps. Not a single video streaming server in the world will ever give you 1Gbps download speed.

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Some ethernet adapter like the one based on intel i226, or realtek,or pcie to sata adapter, or m.2 to u.2 adpater , or additional wifi card in adapter, usb3 adapter, there is much more to discover.

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OpenWrt One has TWO Ethernet ports. Ethernet is a cable standard. You can call either port of the Local Area Network port and the other one can be the Wide Area Network port. It's designed to act a standalone wireless access point or a wireless firewall/gateway device for homes or small office.

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is that m.2 slot compatible (from hardware and software point of view) with quectel modules i.e. rm520gl?

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Yes but the OpenWrt supported switches start ~$100.00 US.

This is an unintended dilemma:
Buy an OpenWrt supported switch and know the forum will support help or ask for help using other managed switches and risk a hard 'no'.

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Not everybody needs a managed ethernet switch which runs OpenWrt.
Some people are satisfied by using cheap, dumb switches.

Or they buy a different router than the One, which fits better their needs (BananaPi R3/R4, GL.inet MT-6000, ...)

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I wouldn’t lock-on that much to specific OpenWrt supported switches to begin with since the OpenWrt switch project is not really that much alive, it was a case of big last second luck that it didn’t got cut down by the move to kernel 6.6 since no one cares about the realtek project anymore.
On top of that it has never reach the functionality of any real switch firmware.
And it is very limited to a single switch realtek chip family and nothing more.

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That just bolsters my point.

Is @psherman going to help set up VLANs on all the different switches?
I have no interest in those switches but I am interested on how the forum handles vlans on their own equipment with mixed equipment.

I fail to see how bringing up some people having no need and/or desire for a common feature brings anything to the table.