I am looking for a router, and OpenWRT came up. I was looking at their table of hardware and the ASUS RT-AC3100 seemed like a good option, as its cheap used, (~$40 USD) and supported by the latest OpenWRT version.

Thing is, its EOL, per Asus. Does this mean that it won’t be supported on OpenWRT for much longer?

Is there a way to see or estimate when a router will no longer work on OpenWRT?

  • Bogusmcfakester@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’ve got an Asus router and it’s good, however I believe there have been some security concerns around Asus routers being used in botnets afaik. If I were to buy a new router today I would go for a gl.inet router

    • dbtng@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I own two GL.inet routers. I liked my Flint so much that I bought an Opal for my office and on the road. These machines are well provisioned. The OpenWRT reviews of them say to just leave the stock bootloader installed. I’ve installed all sorts of packages, multiple subnets, VPN, adblock, etc. GL.inet gear is good stuff.

    • vividspecter@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I would expect that the security issues are with the stock OS, but can’t argue with the gl.inet recommendation.