Which router would be the best?

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Hi
I'm looking for a new router, better performance, currently I have the Linksys E8450 and I hesitate between 3. I'm looking for the best performance between them but also something easy to use open wrt , so best quality price.

So which one would be your pick and why.

  • GL.iNet GL-MT6000
  • Banana pi-R3
  • Open Wrt One

Thanks

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Openwrt one is filogic 820.

The other two are filogic 830?

Filogic 830 gives you an extra 800MHz according to datasheet and another two cores?

I'd refrain from making a recommendation without knowing exactly why you need more performance. And whether you're talking CPU performance, wireless performance, wired performance?

IMO Banana pi R3 or Openwrt one because schematics and extra pins/ports etc. But I don't have hands on experience with either.

But purely as an all it one wifi router GL.iNet GL-MT6000 because case. edit: (Looks like I was misinterpreting banana pi R3 datasheet?)

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Your current router is not that bad. What problems are you trying to solve with the new router?

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Get a Dell Wyse 5060 or 5070 for $30 on Ebay. And use your Linksys as manage switch and AP. Then come back here..

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Need another one for my second house.

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From the 3 in the shop pick cheapest. Unless you need QOS and VPN in gigabit+gigabit range those all are overpowered.

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I need to have 500mbps with wireguard

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500mbps in and 500 mbps out XOR 500Mbps in+out? wg in+out<=900Mbps on either of them.
Say for 7621 what would be around 100Mbps. That still forwards gigabit on cheap.

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Your Linksys E8450 is a vertical router without visible antennas, if you like that concept there is the ASUS RT-AX59U which also uses a Filogic SoC.

https://openwrt.org/toh/asus/rt-ax59u

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I really don't want that concept, it is not in my list

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What about the Acer Predator Connect W6? Has 2.5Gb Ethernet, Filogic 830 and WiFi 6E.

I do have a Belkin RT3200 (same as the E8450) and I would only upgrade to WiFi 6E or eventually 7. Trying to use 160MHz on 5GHz bands is a PITA. I only found useful the channel 36 but I do have another RT3200 as dumb AP and can't use 160MHz on higher channels.

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Works with open wrt?

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Yes: https://openwrt.org/toh/acer/predator_w6

Although, by looking at the forum, there are some issues on snapshot builds that are being corrected. Expect a very stable build when OpenWRT v24 is released.

The only caveat is that OpenWRT has to be installed with a serial cable connected the first time, but on paper, it's a very powerful hardware.

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Ok, unfortunately always had problems with serial

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Currently the best deals out there seem to be

GL.iNet GL-MT6000 in Europe and maybe the USA (mediatek)
Xiaomi Router AX9000 aliexpress seems to have one around $150 US (Atheros/Qualcomm)
Dynalink DL-WRX36 seems like a huge deal if you buy it through Amazon US $60 (Qualcomm/Atheros)
Xiaomi Redmi Router AX6000 can be a good deal too if you don't need a USB port (mediatek)

In order of difficulty to install Openwrt I assume the Gl.Inet one is the easiest and the Xiaomi Router AX9000 is the hardest

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Thank you very much

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It (Predator W6 / Vero) is also very unrecoverably brickable. Indeed I can hard brick them even without serial access or opening the case - just using the reset button and an appropriately (mis)configured tftp server - basically the device is willing to flash corrupted firmware (including the bootcode) from a tftp server and once that happens there's currently no known recovery method (serial doesn't help due to secure boot being enabled).

The e8450/RT3200 are great: you can recover from pretty much anything, all you need is a serial cable, and the headers for that are already soldered on (so it's really just a screwdriver to get at them).

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I have both the GL.iNet GL-MT6000 and the OpenWrt One. I have not set up the One yet, out of the box does not seem to be set up for DHCP, so I will probably flash via USB per their directions (see https://one.openwrt.org/hardware/OpenWrtOne-HowTo.pdf)

The GL.iNet GL-MT6000 was super easy to install OpenWrt:
SYSTEM > Upgrade, Local Upgrade
Drag and drop openwrt-23.05.5-mediatek-filogic-glinet_gl-mt6000-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
ensure not selected Keep Settings
Install
Done!

I did have both wireless radios drop out on me on the GL.iNet GL-MT6000 once so far, so I need to keep an eye on that...found all my devices connected to a different AP.

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Banana Pi R4 works with nightly version of openwrt...

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The open WRT one seems to be disappointing, the banana pi-R3 is better than One...

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