WNDR3800 works pretty well. I still use also it.
I don't think that you can get a powerful router for 200 Mbit/s speeds with $100...
If you want a modern more powerful router, get Netgear R7800. It is somewhat more expensive as your price range, but gives good value for the money and is well supported.
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I have been building (and publishing) a build for WNDR3700/3800 for five years. That router, although old by current standards, still answers my needs. The router has also an excellent TFTP recovery functionality, which is important in the long run when living on the bleeding edge.
But I have been wondering in any case if I should buy a newer router and start exploring that. Two top choices below:
wrt1900ac series seems to be the most active new powerful router in the Openwrt forum. But that …
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After looking for a new device in Next router? ath10k or mwlwifi based? something else? thread, I decided on Netgear R7800. I started exploring the new device a week ago and wrote my first comments to that thread, but it is probably better to have a new device-specific thread.
Netgear R7800 is a dual-core 1,7 GHz AC2600 router based on IPQ8065 SoC and QCA9984 wifi. (iox806x target and arm_cortex-a15_neon-vfpv4 packages in LEDE)
Some notes on the current support in OpenWrt (updated in Aug 2018…
I have built a nice build for Netgear R7800 that offers the basic router functionality plus some useful add-ons, but does not contain too much additional fancy stuff like multimedia.
The build is based on the bleeding-edge development main/master branch and the stable 23.05 branch. ("master" has been renamed as "main" in OpenWrt)
Current version:
Branch
Version (branch-revision-commithash-date)
main/master (development branch)
main-r24930-0c45d2cfc6-20240127 (DSA)
stable openwrt-23…
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