Hallo to everyone.

My Linksys EA4500 is dead, after 4 years of good job (many of the with OpenWrt) seems stopped working, maybe I'll try to debrick with usb-ttl cable, but now I need a new router to use with OpenWRT.

I'm looking for Gigabit, 5Ghz + 2.4Ghz Wi-Fi with multi-ssid capability, obviously OpenWRT support. The router also perform as NAT (mobile hard drive attached) and has to manage well 5 PCs in Wi-Fi, some smartphones, Sky decoder, 3 PCs in GigaBit, running firewall and an aggressive QoS (one of the 2 WiFi is for guests and tenants), and has to be a VPN server with 2 o 3 clients.
EA4500 was often with 75% average load, in certain moments 100% and the network got very slow: I had to power off it and wait some minutes... I've known for some time that an improvement was needed!

Now I'm using my old WRT54GL with DD-WRT witch I was in use for the box networking for basic domestic use, but I need a substitute.
Looking at the ToH special: Gbit, Dualband, 802.11ac, OpenWrt supported, Filtered by availability*~Available & supported current rel*~15.05 & ram mb*~ I'm thinking about WRT-1200AC, but I'm here to get some suggestions.

Budget is around 150 Euros.
Thanks in advice.

hello,

what about tp-link archer c7?

Christoph

It's an 800Mhz single-core with 128MB and 16MB flash, my previous EA4500 was very similar with more memory and -as I wrote- I want also something better.

LEDE: Next router? ath10k or mwlwifi based? something else?

Thanks.

Finally I bought an Asus RT-AC68U. Now I'll use DD-WRT, waiting for OpenWRT ;-)

brambil, Did you try install Lede version ?