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which city in Saudia? which store jarir or extra?
No its not available on jarir and extra WR3000S available on Amazon.sa from international supplier from Germany.
WR3000 available on Noon and both are having the same price after shipment.
amazon.sa will add import tax as well.
did you check aliexpress?
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WR3000: Should be avoided at this point unless you can get it for cheap to work as a dumb AP.
WR3000S or WR3000E: If you only need 1Gbps ports and 256 RAM.
WR3000P: (only supported in snapshot) Has 1x 2.5Gbps and 4x 1Gbps ports, same as WR3000H but 512 MB RAM instead of 256 MB and an USB2 port.
Canât really comment on price and availability as I can only find the original WR3000 for sale in my country.
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WR3000P support commit: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/04e9d154f209c0390d962c10e75ed3c49bd5a9e9
yes i paid the import tax too.
yes it is not available.
i have 600/150mb connection so i think it would be enough for me.
If you don't mind WiFi5 speeds, this is arguably some of the best bang for buck still IMO
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Assuming you don't need more than one unit, SAX1V1K's are $25-35 on eBay.
AX3600
2.5GbE
2GB RAM
512MB flash, another 4.5GB available in empty partition.
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I noticed a friend has been running IoT devices on his main LAN and encouraged him to put them on a VLAN. Heâs using VLAN aware APs and has now tasked me with setting me up with a VLAN aware router.
Any recommendations for a wired only platform supported by a relatively current version of OpenWRT that I can get him? Gigabit ports will suffice.
Thanks
Most of the discussions here emphasize wireless performance.
P.S.: I use pfSense and am familiar with VLANs and interVLAN routing but it is way overkill for him
Pretty much anything x86 off ebay above $30, with two Ethernet ports or more will do.
I'm happy with Cisco Meraki MX65. Only by default poe not working, but look on forum here users reported working with previous owrt and some modification.
Any of the MT7621 devices would meet your requirements. See the Cudy R700, Cudy C200P, MikroTik RB760iGS (hEX S), MikroTik RB750Gr3 (hEX), TP-Link Festa FR205, TP-Link ER605 v2, Ubiquiti Edgerouter X (ER-X), or Ubiquiti Edgerouter X-SFP (ER-X-SF).
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Thanks for the suggestions.
Might it also make sense to get a WiFi router and disable the WiFi if their larger sales volume makes their prices more attractive?
I have 3 
(free of charge)
It works best for internet speed < 500Mbps, I put one at my mom's living area, the stylish build allow it to sit in a visible area (and I configure the LEDs to be solid but no blinking so that it won't draw much attention)
512MB ram isn't really that much available for us because the Atheros driver is going to use a lot of them.
I did some reading on the x86 releases and it seems that one has to do a reinstall when a new image is released rather than a sysupgrade which is the case with ARM/MIPS releases. Did I misunderstand this?
Thanks
You can do vanilla upgrades, but since x86 usually comes with a lot more disk space, people get "greedy" and try to use it all.
Images up to 1GB can be generated using owut, larger rootfs will wipe the existing layout and revert it back to whatever is defined in the image (again, up to 1GB).
Upside is, you can't brick it, and you can have multiple Openwrt installs in parallel on one drive, but then you have to do the upgrade by hand.
Thanks for the excellent explanation. Let me see what ebay has to offer with 2 NICs
Radxa E20C and E52C (supported from openwrt 25.12 onward)
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Cloudgenix ION 2000 is often $20-30 on US eBay, ARK-1123 too.