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Tangentially related: I want to run OpenWRT but need at least 500Mbps WAN/LAN filtered routing capacity; my old tp-link 4300 barely manages 150mbps; can anyone recommend a modern home WiFi/router that can run OpenWRT and do line speed packet filtering between WAN and LAN?

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I’ve considered getting the new Linksys. It’s been hard to justify its price tag though next to another router I would also highly recommend, the GL.iNet B1300. I have bought three of those so far and will buy one or two more when they go on sale again.

I forget which ARM chip it ships with, but it’s capable of pushing almost 200Mbps on WireGuard, and it’s a significant bargain over the Linksys. Its antennas probably won’t cover same distance as the Linksys though—that works in my small apartment or if you use a couple of them in a mesh network. For a bigger house and if you like to keep things simple, the Linksys or the Turris are probably the best options.

https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-b1300/

I use OpenWRT on a Linksys WRT3200ACM. It has a dual core ARMv7 cpu running at 1.8GHz, with 512MB of memory. It does very well, in my opinion.

My PC with an Intel Wireless-AC 9260 has the following network connection, reported by the OpenWRT interface: "400.0 Mbit/s, 40MHz, VHT-MCS 9, VHT-NSS 2, Short GI 400.0 Mbit/s, 40MHz, VHT-MCS 9, VHT-NSS 2, Short GI"

My work 2018 Macbook Pro gets the following: "540.0 Mbit/s, 40MHz, VHT-MCS 9, VHT-NSS 3 600.0 Mbit/s, 40MHz, VHT-MCS 9, VHT-NSS 3, Short GI"

Mine and my wife's LG V40 Android phones get this reported speed: "400.0 Mbit/s, 40MHz, VHT-MCS 9, VHT-NSS 2, Short GI 6.0 Mbit/s, 40MHz"

Not sure if there's any extra information I can provide. I'm not affiliated with Linksys.

For ac, 500+ Mbps is primarily feasible only at 5 GHz around 2 m / 5 ft away. WRT3200ACM

If you care about performance rather than open source purity tests, Asus RT-AX88U is the way to go.

Thanks. I should have made this more explicit, but I care less about the WLAN performance (as long as it's ok) - I care more about the wired one.

Most OpenWRT ports don't offload the LAN/WAN routing, and doing it on a lowly ARM CPU often effectively limits this to a few hundred megabits - e.g. 150mbps on my WDR4300 (which does manage 800Mbps for the same task with the original closed firmware which does do some hardware offloading)

I'm running OpenWRT on a Netgear R7800 and see 940Mbps between lan and wan (that's wired lan, not wireless) with flow offloading enabled.

Get a Xiaomi Router 3G. It is more difficult to do an initial flash, but is well worth it with an awesome $40 price tag on Aliexpress. Only downside is that it only has 3 GigE ports.

Please not, shitty wifi stability and much more: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/xiaomi-wifi-router-3g/5377/1187

I have three of them serving 802.11n on 2.4 and 802.11ac on 5 gigs and all work fine.

Know some people who use them for a bridged setup over ac standard. No issues there as well.

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