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isn't the fact that a Device from 2016 falls under the "recommended enthusiast devices" somewhat disapointing?
Not really, it's top-end for 802.11ac/ wave2 devices and still a very good choice - there is not a whole lot better in this category (unless you lose wifi and go wired-only).
The 802.11ax class of devices is still under development, mt7622bv+mt7915e (just adding a new wireless chipset to an already supported SOC - rather than using new components for SOC and wireless) has had a head start so far, ipq807x is still facing some problems (but seems to be progressing). Once these are fully supported, they'll bring a lot more performance to the table, but that will take a bit more time (an unknown amount of it).
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Yea it's definitely not ideal. It's because there are no WiFi 6 routers with newer SoCs supported by OpenWrt yet, so the R7800 is still one of the top options. I use the WRT32X and it's mostly great too, faster in some regards, wifi is not as good though.
If you're into other 3rd party firmwares, like Asuswrt-Merlin, then the Asus RT-AX58U and RT-AX88U are great choices. Newer SoCs and great WiFi 6 support for better wifi (faster, TWT, etc.), that firmware can do SQM cake now too. Of course it's vey different in that it uses proprietary code.
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Yes fair enough. But what targets and what feature set: single login? airtime fairness? target wake time? OFDMA? wpa3? etc. My isssue with the E8450 is the relatively slow SoC and lack of USB 3.0.
Lol it wasn't a claim, I didn't realize support was in yet. Then I asked what features are in and you apparently don't know. Haven't seen any of those features I mentioned as check boxes in LuCI yet. I doubt what you posted is coming in 21.02, which means master builds only for a long time.
I use USB 3.0 literatlly every day with samba 4 shares on an external drive, get 120 MB/s read-write on my WRT32X, faster than many NAS boxes. Wouldn't switch to a newer device unless it keeps USB 3.0.
I got a new backup router it's a Lenovo Ideacenter. I got on an clearance sale. 17 watts idle with 9 x Gigabit ports and wifi.
HFC 1000/50
Running OpenWRT 19.07.7
Power doesn't bother me that much as I have heaps of solar panels. 9 x Gigabit ports is what I need
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Hello,
what about the CLEARFOG CN9130 PRO
sold @306$
https://i.imgur.com/PN86vJk.png
Marvell OCTEON based CN9130 Quad core Arm Cortex A72 up to 2.2 GHz
1 x Port dedicated Ethernet
5 x Switched Ethernet RJ45 10/100/1000
1 x SFP+ 10GbE
1 x USB 3.0
up to 8GB DDR4
8GB eMMC
MicroSD
mikroBUS header
M.2
2 x mSATA/mPCIE with SIM holder
Indication LEDs
User Push Buttons
RTC Battery
JTAG Header
OS Support Linux Kernel 4.x, OpenWRT/LEDE, Yocto
More details here : https://developer.solid-run.com/knowledge-base/clearfog-pro-getting-started/
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By no means terrible 
From the raspberry pi 4B we know what 4 A72 cores can achieve, and these seem to be higher clocked... A bit on the pricy end, but then it seems to be a rather complete wired-router-for-gigabit links solution... AND with the proper mPCIe wireless cards and antennas this could also be converted into a wireless router as well (albeit at a cost).
I have no idea how long solid-run supports their SBCs (this is one thing raspberry pi has going for it, a relative big market able to support sales of the device fo a relative long time).
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I have a Solid Run Cubox I4-Pro sitting idle which I originally set up as a media device, and they stood behind it with good support and resources for years, but then it was fairly popular with the XBMC crowd. This seems to be a little pricy given those 5 ports connect to a switch and a single NIC-- it suggests it's more of an edge than a core router and I don't know what you're doing with all that CPU unless you're encrypting and shaping that 10Gbe link. At just over half the price, the dual-core 1Gb RAM version seems more right-sized for typical applications.
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Nah, that is a way less capable CPU... at $186 a dual core A9 @1.6GHz with a 5 port switch and no WiFi is not really bad but also not that attractive. This is similar to the turris omnia, not a bad platform, but also not really powerful enough to shape small packets at gigabit rates symmetrically. (Full disclosure I own and operate a turris omnia, but my access link is limited to 116/37 anyway, which I shape down to 95/36, which the dual A9s do without issues)
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Probably my favorite overpowered device I've used for OpenWRT is an Intel DQ77KB ThinITX mobo (2 onboard GigE NICs) with a 3.1GHz Ivy Bridge Core I5 CPU and a quad I340 PCIe card. I ran multiple instances of OpenWRT as LXC containers to perform various networking tasks such as isolating a bittorrent client on a VPN tunnel, separate home routers for my wife's telecommuting needs (including unsanctioned multiple PPPoE connections to my ISP) as well as a separately firewalled VPN link connecting a bunch of local devices on a VLAN subnet to an offsite client's lab; it was a complicated project.
I don't get that fancy with it now, but OpenWRT is really astonishingly versatile. It's handy as an appliance OS, a virtual appliance OS and as a container. I haven't had much success with it as an LXC host for unprivileged containers running as a non-root user; that's a bit outside of its wheelhouse: there are small-footprint server Linuxen that a little better suited for that sort of thing out of the box.
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I'm using a Raspberry Pi 4, 5-port managed switch and an Honor Router 3 as a Wi-Fi access point.
I'm really impressed with OpenWrt and the functionality I've added to my network:
- Network level adblocking.
- DNS redirection.
- SQM QoS
- Wireguard server to allow my remote devices to access my home LAN and use the WAN connection.
Total cost was under £100 and the capabilities far exceed any off the shelf device.
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My daily is my WRT32X which I love, very fast and well supported by OpenWrt, SQM at 500+mbits is no problem, USB 3.0 storage at 120 MB/s, DSA, Adblock, Samba4, all working great, wifi 5GHz is okay not great, but been tinkering more with an RPi4 2GB I've had a while as a RetroPie box, now with another SD card it's been fun running OpenWrt on it.
I must admit, it would be an incredible setup for performance, ram, storage, etc running: Rasperry Pi 4 2GB or better, USB 3.0 gigabit ethernet adapter, 5-port gigabit switch, and WiFi 6 AP of course - probably a Ubiquiti U6-Lite-US access point. It would be a ~$250 setup but better than any solo router.
In the end I might just tack on a U6-Lite-US ($99 AP) to my WRT32X when I want WiFi 6 since there isn't a solid WiFi 6 router on the horizon yet for OpenWrt.
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Pi 4 with a dual USB3 ethernet adapter and the POE hat, along with a POE ceiling mount AP and of course a POE switch, cuts down on the wall warts and makes it easy to put everything on a single UPS. Thanks to my desktop being on the same UPS and my wife's telecommute rig being laptop-based (i.e. built-in UPS), we have more than once been able to continue working online through a couple of brief power cuts, when WAN was unaffected thanks to being fiber supplied from outside the affected area.
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Good luck actually getting a device. SolidRun takes months to fulfill orders from my personal experience!
When I ordered the CuBox many years ago it arrived after a one week.
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please stop polluting this thread with this info. if you need to show this off start another one
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