What's your favourite cheap LEDE/OpenWrt device?

Me too. This is my first router build, and it's old pc and second hand. I will report back when I get it in the mail. My expensive XCY is 9 watts idle, hope this cheapie router would be around the same ball park??? Here's hoping.

So I finally got my backup router.

40 Watts on idle, just to compare to my desktop it's 80-90Watts on idle

I already added an extra stick of 4GB ram, and a brand new Cmos battery. I'm just waiting on a couple of quad gigabit nics. I'm thinking of replace the hdd with an SSD. Not sure yet if I should.

I still haven't installed OpenWRT or done any tweaking. Will report back soon

350kWh / year for doing nothing. Something to think about (before buying a device).

Apart from that: Can you please move extensive discussions of your purchase, installation and troubleshooting to a separate thread?

Thanks!

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tmomas it's a back up router. You know what that means right?

My Bad, 20 watts idle with windows 10. May be less with OpenWRT?? Sorry I was really tired last night.

I wont post any more in this thread. :frowning:

Ok so a fresh install of windows 10 with all the updates included. 12.5Watts idle. I'm assuming OpenWRT with Luci will be less???

I'll leave it to that.

Replying to my own post from a year ago, I'm not sure why Xiaomi Mi 4A Gigabit Edition hasn't been posted here sooner. It pretty much ticks all the boxes from my previous post, except the USB port. Probably because it initially required opening the device, but it is now flashable using software-only exploit OpenWRTInvasion.

Dual band WiFi, 802.11ac, 2x2 MiMo, Mediatek MT7621, 128 MB RAM, 16 MB flash, 3 Gigabit ports, quite easily flashable, hardware offload works, negligible power consumption (4-5W) and costs less than 30$ shipped worldwide! I have bought it for an equivalent of 29 USD in a physical store in my country!

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Yes, I think it's the best for the money now, for someone who doesn't need USB.

What about coverage? Can You compare it to some other vendor/device?

What about this (from https://github.com/acecilia/OpenWRTInvasion) "Some users have reported worse WIFI performance in OpenWrt than in the stock firmware."?

What OpenWRT version are You using?

I've been using OpenWRT on a TP-Link WR940Nv6 since 2017. Back then I had to use a tiny snapshot and could not figure out how to install LUCi on a 4/32, so I used it as my main router for years using UCI and other CLI Linux tools. I loved it.

This week I just bought an ArcherA7v5.8 (<$60 on Amazon) and flashed it with 19.07 so I'm using LUCI for the first time. I went back and re-flashed my WR940Nv6 and WR940Nv4 with 18.06.9 so now I have LUCI on those too. I set them up as Dump Wireless APs and everything is working perfectly. Total Home WiFi coverage for under $120 (those WR940's were like $29.99)

Thanks to everyone using and supporting OpenWRT!!

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Cudy WR2100 for less than $30 when on sale on Amazon.

i couldn't find openwrt support for this one

See https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/cudy/cudy_wr2100

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https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ramips/mt7621/

https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.0-rc4/targets/ramips/mt7621/

https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=3501db9b9b4a71ae52c539b46af817783c327866

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Hi! planning to use TP-Link Archer C7 https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/archer_c7 (it's what can find out here in Argentina).

What do you think for wifi acces to 10 devices tops, mostly cellphones, in a hangar like space? Router will be in a kitchen like huge room (8m x 4m) and the whole hangar has 50m x 20m

Thanks!

seems fine.

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Strange, when some are praising their device, this is fine, but when I claim, that Cudy WR2100 (I had it and I tested it) is a bad device, with bad performance and bad coverage, then this message is inappropriate for some.

you should claim based on facts/reviews

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Just got a D-link dir-2660 secondhand at less than $30. Love it on 21.02.0-rc4.

$0 Engenius ESR1750. Friend upgraded to an Asus and don't need it anymore. I was on the 18.06.9 firmware for over a year, until I read that EPG5000 might have the same hardware as it, so I took a chance and flash to EPG5000 18.06.9 firmware. It worked, then I was able to flash to EGP5000 19.07.8 firmware.

$5 Buffalo WZR-HP-AG300H. Found it on classified for $10, offered $5. Running current 19.07.8 firmware.

$0 Netgear AC1000 R6080. Found it on classified for $0. Running snapshot. Support AC wireless but only have a 10/100 switch for the wires. Have it as a backup.

There are plenty of $20 AC capable routers on classified near me as none of my devices support AX, AC routers work just fine for me.

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You might not realize it but putting OpenWRT on that R6080 unlocked some features. that router is an AC1200 class router they artificially crippled to AC1000 speeds. By flashing it to OpenWRT you unlocked AC1200.