What's your favourite cheap LEDE/OpenWrt device?

Yup, until they don't... I ASU-update a couple of my devices on SNAPSHOT at least weekly, plus on every kernel patch-version bump. Every now and then (maybe once or twice a year), something will change enough that things go wrong.

For one example, when the wolfssl/mbedtls swap was done, I had to figure out how to get a bunch of stuff working again. This was a transient problem due to me being "too early to the party", as the transitional steps were baked into the upgrade process (long) prior to the change making its way into the release branch, so release-branch users were not affected.

I don't consider this a problem as I'm well aware that it's part of opting in to using snapshots. The bottom line is: if you plan on using SNAPSHOT on your daily driver, you need to keep this in mind.

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I did the initial flash with XMiR-Patcher, then flashed OpenWrt's U-Boot and finally flashed snapshot.
overlay is 75 MB (as mentioned in the wiki page) and the router boots in less than 30s, so I don't think I'll be messing with the bootloader again as I lack a device to interact with UART at the moment.

What exactly is better in ImmortalWrt's bootloader though?

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It has a web GUI for recovery/updates and supports three different partition layouts at once.

The next major OWRT release is supposed to come out within a month or two. Then we should all stick to stable builds.

As long as "all" doesn't include me, that's fine. Oh, and also except for the users that test work I do only on the main branch, I'd like for them to continue using snapshots.

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It's a free world, duh!

Thanks for letting me know. None of these are of interest to me.

I once used breed bootloader to recover mi router.

Paid $10 for three used Linksys MX55EC, which is part of the MX5500 series.

Pretty happy with the 4803.8Mbit/s result.

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Is that 4.8 Gbps link speed for a 802.11s mesh with 160 MHz? Or WDS? or just a hungry client of yours?

Looks impressive and I am curious, as I have not been able to set 160 MHz 802.11s mesh backhauls

I just change ch to 149, enable 160mhz on my main MX5500, install relayd package on my second mx5500 and connect them together. Didn't setup WDS nor 802.11s mesh. There wasn't any files behind transfer and since I was testing, they were 4 ft apart.

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Now the Xiaomi AX3000T is even cheaper due to some sale period on Ali. Using the marketing code 11CD03 , the final price appears as 32.77 EUR for me, including tax and delivery to the EU.

Very interesting option for the Filogic 820 at this price.

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