Suggest a best OpenWrt router

Hardware Questions and Recommendations
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That's incorrect, there's no guarantee uboot actually supports ping, since a different protocol, and the person who compiled it, might have disabled it.

Nor is ping needed for tftp recovery to work,
and isn't in any way a fool proof test of tftp functionality.
Rather the opposite.

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tftp, serial there are so many ways

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TFTP work if you are able to ping. Without open a router i cant go with serial, it lose my warranty.

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Kindly share the link what I can try without open my router, i don't want to lose its warranty of 3 years.

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Do you have access to GL.iNet GL-B1300 ? Matches all your requirement and can be easily recovered using built-in web recovery. No need to open it at all.

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Cool, but Only 32MB flash? Is this has gig ethernet port?

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Lol, you're adding must haves as you go...

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Ok if you have warranty then to recover the router go back to the store and say it stopped working. They will fix it for you, unless you already broke the warranty by flashing it...

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All the specs are on the page if you follow the link I provided.

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Try a Netgear R7800. Not really cost-effective, but fast, has an easy TFTP recovery and two USB3 ports.

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It's already been mentioned.

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If you still have it in warranty, simplly claim it. It is not working.

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From what I remember this router is using compressed file system in OpenWrt, so 32MB is decent in this case.

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Dear Guys,
I have lot of research and found dlink dir-2640 has pre installed web recovery, can i buy it?

Please suggest, if I missed anything.

Thanks :+1:

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if it checks all your boxes, and it's the A1 version ,go for it, it's in the ToH.

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Linksys wrt3200acm

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$250 new, with a failing 2.4GHz radio, probably not available in India.

Solid recommendation .... not.

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D-Link DIR-2660 - EXO AC2600... https://www.amazon.in/dp/B07YZHCFDR

Though its currently unavailable, it was a couple of weeks ago. Its top notch router, and I have been highly satisfied with it. Currently its my only router.
You can watch its review of openwrt on onemarcfifty's youtube channel.
I purchased it due to his review.

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Xiaomi 4a Gigabit Edition router dualband with flashable EN25QX128A and GS25Q128 eeprom

easy to flash and easy to recover using ch341a usb spi nor flasher and lots of community support from https://4pda.to/forum/index.php?showtopic=988197 forums and also lots of custom firmware support padavan, openwrt, immortalwrt, xwrt,pcwrt and keeneetic firmware