Using several ASUS, Buffalo and TP-Link with openwrt and kind of Favorite money wise still is TP-Link Archer C7 purchased years ago. Now TP-Link Archer C6 is cheaply available, should be bit faster cpu same ram and flash but no usb2.
Running VyoS on old PC with 2pcs 1GBit nics but I think that still is hard to replace with decent HW. If anyone could recommend RPI4 Or NanoPI or something that could have 1Gbit eth till at least some level would be nice.
I did a lot of research on this thread here
as in read over 100 pages of that thread, really no ones been having these disconnection issues be it on the i225 or i226, and if it does happen they reboot it and its fine again.
I was initially going to avoid the i225/6 but have back tracked due to this, servethehome YT also mentioned they have had a few units with i225/6 and its run fine for months and still running rock solid.
There is another alternative the odroid H2/3 series since they use realtek 2.5gbps nics but you do have to pay the bigger price tag on these odroid devices (well depends if you are in europe) the price difference is 2x for myself so not worth it over these aliexpress router boxes that cost £150-200.
Id go for the i226 since it uses less wattage and is more up to date then the i225.
Interesting... i have ArcherC6, I see my neighbor who has a Mikrotik and keeps telling me that it's very fine... then the hardware was provided directly by the WIFI provider.
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Thanks!
It has been almost 6 years now, since I started with OpenWrt and I am really glad, that we have such a great FLOSS project, that runs on many consumer routers.
And I have to say I am quite happy with all my main OpenWrt devices, which are:
edit: corrected vendor name
Just adding if someone doesn't need WiFi 6 and Wifi 5 is fine then for an AP the Extreme Networks WS-AP3825I is now my go-to. It's a Dual-Band 3x3 MIMO, 2x 800Mhz, both POE or 12v 1A, 64mb MMC flash, 256mb DDR3 RAM, and two ethernet ports.
Rock solid stability as they are enterprise grade and you can get them for $15 used on eBay.
Nice suggestion but unless I'm overlooking something, installation tutorial is definitely not for noobs. 
Your right it's not a GUI flash but it's just a copy/paste of 4 lines. I'll try to clean up the instructions some.
Here's a post someone did which makes it simpler to understand: https://forum.darmstadt.freifunk.net/t/flashing-of-the-extreme-networks-ws-ap3825i/923
Dynalink DL-WRX36. Working Wifi 6, 2.5Gbe, ARMv8 Processor rev 4, 1gb Memory, loads of flash storage and USB 3.
Support thread:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/dynalink-dl-wrx36-askey-rt5010w-ipq8072a-openwrt-support
Edit: added the correct link. (The thread has been renamed, and apparently the original link did not contain the thread id number, like normally)
Your link directs to page that no longer exists.
Thinking of getting an r6s - any update on its cake performance? Thanks!
I have been meaning to get one... too broke. I have a few mods for cake coming out soon that might help, but need to profile.
Shame. Guess I might have to be the trend setter then. Will report back if I end up getting one and looking forward to the cake mods.
I do like the old Linksys WRT series (I have WRT1900ACv2 + WRT3200ACM), I know the WiFi thing kind of sucks due to no more firmware support, but it's quite a solid one as wired router. What I like it: Has buiult-in crypto accelerator so running OpenVPN can give decent throughput on my mom's 100M internet; It has eSATA port which I can plug my 4-bay eSATA tower to add 4 disks and run torrent on it
Second one I like is GL-INET MT1300 travel router, at beginning I didn't really like it because it doesn't work well on 19.07 (some improvements on 21.02 but still needs a lot manual work on it), with 22.03 it becomes very solid, now it's always in my travel baggage.
Can you please confirm that it's a Netgear and not a Linksys router? I tried to Google it and Linksys floods the screen, even with "Netgear" in quotes.
Likely a typo.
E8450 model is associated with Linksys.
Either wrong company, or wrong model number. lol
… or both 
Yes, it is Linksys, sorry.
No worries. You could have meant a different model that is a Netgear product. Anyway, now to look it up and see if it's something I might want to get. 