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There are a lot of them, but depending on which features you need and where you live, it might be difficult to get one.

Take a look e.g. at OpenWrt's list of devices "Ideal for OpenWrt": https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_864

Consider TP-Link Archer C7, for instance. It is an older one, but has reasonably fast hardware, supports IEEE 802.11ac and is available on Amazon. New costs ~75 USD, a "certified refurbished" version costs ~50 USD.

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Sadly, the Archer C7 cannot exceed 60Mbit/s without hardware offload when running OpenWRT. I had to replace mine with a Ubiquiti wireless access point and a dedicated pfSense box.

Source? Are you talking about wireless speed or wired speed? I am asking because I have never experienced such a huge limitation caused by the CPU bottleneck.

I have performed some simple tests using `iperf` tool on Archer C7 with OpenWrt and it was able to sustain wired network speeds of around 750 Mb/s and wireless speeds (IEEE 802.11ac) of around 300 Mb/s (maybe even more, but I do not remember exactly).

Were you using stock firmware or openwrt

There are newer firmwares that allow me to get WAN to LAN ~500 Mbit over 5ghz, and WAN to LAN 950 Mbit over Ethernet

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