OMG there's a junk store near my place selling quite a number of used ELECOM WRC-2533GST2 for JPY 500 each (less than USD$4), yeah it's not 802.11ax but a 4T4R 802.11ac (MT7621A + MT7615 based) is really a good backup device.
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Definitely the Gl.inet MT-6000 Flint-2.
And if you're on a thight budget: a second hand R7800 (€30-40) or C2600 (€20-30) would be my choice.
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what about a Xiaomi AX3000T from Aliexpress for ~40 Dollars?
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AX3000T isn't bad according to spec, however you have to deal with various hardware versions which sometimes even the sellers can't tell the difference.
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I'm still in favour of x86 for enthusiast devices. Have been running a x86 mini PC with 4x 2.5Gb interfaces for a couple of years and it's rock solid with anything I want. No concerns about RAM usage or flash space.
Then I am free to use a large managed switch and 4 or 5 WiFi APs to provide good coverage everywhere instead of just next to the WAN point.
Have been experimenting with the realtek managed switches, hopefully we can save those from being dropped due to the old kernel version. Then when 24.x drops I'll have a full router + switch + AP solution on OpenWRT!
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Test Env
router RPi 4 2GB RAM + TP-Link UE300
switch Linksys LGS108Pv2
access point TP-Link EAP615-Wall
Live Env
router RPi CM4 2GB RAM + DFRobot Routerboard
switch Netgear GS308EP
access point TP-Link EAP615-Wall (2x)
Future plan: add access point ZyXEL NWA50AX Pro
As a fellow member of the x86 fan club, I'm following in your footsteps. Have had the x86 box as my edge router for 4+ years, just ditched my last non-OpenWrt AP, and have a Zyxel XGS1210-12 that I've been wanting to switch over (but have been too afraid to kill my primary switch).
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I've been testing a lot of Realtek MIPS devices, there's been some movement to improve the RTL83XX devices and I'm also very keen to try a 10Gb option with OpenWRT. I see that RTL9302B support is appearing upstream in the kernel so with a bit of luck some back ports will be possible once the main RTL targets are updated to kernel 6.6.
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rtl93xx support in OpenWrt is pretty basic at this point, unless you want to dive in head first with continuing/ restarting development for it, I wouldn't exactly recommend to use it on this hardware (rtl838x support is much more mature, rtl839x somewhere inbetween).
Found this out the hard way, there's now a new revision of the AX3000T that straight up is not supported for the time being
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What exactly did they change ? The soc, or is just a firmware thing ? Can you dissasemble it and confirm the chips they use ?
Hi, more information is in the OpenWRT thread for the device, but to summarise routers with versions 10.84 and above come with a new ethernet switch that renders ethernet functionality null if you try to flash OpenWRT on them.
Luckily the fix isn't tremendously difficult, I'm just not sure when it will be incorporated into OpenWRT.
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Just managed to rescue a few abandoned Google WiFi (Gale), they are really nice stuff, though not fast enough (I remember a rough test showing ~600Mbps throughput) but I will deploy them to my parents' home. Old people don't really like seeing "spider like" router sitting in living area, while the Google WiFi looks stylish to them, and they are still using 100Mbps internet so this device is more than enough for them. Not to mention that it only uses ~3W power and no heat at all.
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If you want a clean look like that I'd say go with a DL-WRX36. Taller but still a white cylinder, clean look, 2.2GHz ipq807x, 1GB ram, 2.5G, USB3, Wifi 6, etc.
I've been loving the GL-MT6000 though, been using it for about 11 months. Filogic 830, 1GB RAM, 2.5G ports, 8GB storage, USB3, Wifi 6, etc.
For "enthusiast" I'd say that's now the BPI-R4. Or of course a N100 + i226-V box.
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I am playing with Cisco MX65 (12 ports, 2gb ram, 1gb flash but no wifi) is amazing. I have a dumb access point Netgear EX6100v2 (also openwrt) and I am very pleased.
- 2TB NVMe (105 Euro)
- Zyxel BE11000 WiFi 7 (174 Euro)
- Tp-Link UE300 (8 Euro)
- Raspberry Pi 5 2GB RAM (60 Euro)
- Power Filter (10 Euro)
- copper cooler (10 Euro)
- Raspberry pi 5 pcie nvme-ssd and 2,5g ethernet rtl8125 (35 Euro)
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402 Euro
with Samba, Media Player, Wifi 7 (WPA3) and 2.5 G Ethernet
and addblock with almost all Blocklist active
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worth to mention that's not supported by openwrt
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it's almost the price of a tplink be800
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the BE19000 needs 15 Volt with 5 Amper ! My Raspberry-Pi5-OpenWRT-Router with the hat and the Zyxel BE11000 Access Point together consumes only 14 watt. I want to save energy.
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That the PSU is specified with 75W doesn't mean that the device consumes it. (at all times). If you look at the performance of that device you can easily imagine at which conditions it may need the 75W.
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