it's sold out, there were two units available in CZ for ~60€, this morning.
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Is there anything better than the Xiaomi Mi Router 4A Gigabit Edition for around the $35 USD mark? Had a quick dig through Aliexpress offerings and my old favourite (YouHua WR1200JS) no longer seems to be available.
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For hardware recommendations please open a new topic in the Hardware Questions and Recommendations category of this forum.
Please see https://openwrt.org/faq/which_router_should_i_buy before asking for recommendations. This way you will get better recommendations and come to a quicker solution.
Thanks! 
27$ but i don't know what kind of SOC there is in this router, i bet for a MT7621...
AC 1200
Gbit ports
Is this device supported by OpenWrt?
indeed, I don't think so 
But for sure its firmware is based on openwrt, as i can see "luci" in the login page at 00:28
it's a good start 
Edit :
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Probably a bit early for me. Just bought 4x Xiaomi Router 4A Gigabit Edition routers, will see how we go
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I prefer the TP-Link Archer A6/C6 v3.x. Same hardware as the Xiaomi 4A, but with one additional Ethernet port and easier OpenWrt installation.
For now only Archer A6 v3 is supported by stable builds, but the same image can be used to flash on Archer C6 v3 (A6 v3 anc C6 3 have the same hardware, not to confuse with the C6U v3) and the snapshot builds are already available for the C6 v3.
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you can also find some Phicomm K3C (lantiq SOC) for a very low price:
there is one @ 15$ new and factory sealed.
I almost bought one of those, but instead I bought a Archer C7 v5.
I'm pretty happy with it, and it was not all that expensive (I got mine well under $50 on eBay, brand new).
The Archer C20 from Amazon.ca works well with 50/10Mbps VDSL service for $30CDN.
I've purchased a TP-Link Archer C6 v3 after looking for a decent router and below 50 EUR. Good 5GHz download speed around 90Mbytes/sec so it's all good. Installed v.22.03 stable and except an issue with opkg update it's now stable.
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it is not working, because the factory firmware patched the security flaw used by OpenWRTInvasion, and the developer of the patch is not updating it further at this time, in short Xiaomi 4A Gigabit is not an option for openwrt
Repeat, do not buy Xiaomi 4A Gigabit, because changes at the factory make openWRT install impossible for now
I have openWRT on Archer A7, works okay, for wndr3700v3 i use freshtomato on that instead of openWRT because of immense performance difference.
Hmmm... likr what kind of performance difference?
Freshtomato...LOL! Very secure: using a build system from 2012 with a linux kernel 2.4.x.
Wndr3700v3 is Broadcom, so not supported by OpenWrt anyways. A wndr3700v5 is supported (MT7621ST), but I wouldn't recommend since its the "ST" version (single core).
Firmware patched from Xiaomi seems unlikely, but probably you should still be able to downgrade the firmware via TFTP and use the exploit. I got a 4a Gb a few months ago without any problems upgraded to OpenWrt. Downside of the 4a Gb version: only 2 lan ports which depending on use case can be a dealbreaker.
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From my fresh experience it works. Please, specify version of device, where invasion does not work.
3.0 is faster, how much is different?