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I tried OpenWRT a few years ago on my WRT3200acm and the wireless quality was severely lacking. Has a lot changed since then? Do you think it's worth giving another go?

It hasn't been updated since Jan of 2020 but I also don't see any vulns listed for it.

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I tried OpenWRT on my D-Link router and yeah it was super flaky, dropping the WiFi for around a minute at random times throughout the day.

The web interface was much better than stock firmware though.

But I have recently settled for the tp-link Archer AX50 which is very stable and comes with a great web interface, plenty of advanced features.

Not tried OpenWRT on the latter.

> It hasn't been updated since Jan of 2020 but I also don't see any vulns listed for it.

Are you referring to the manufacturer's firmware or OpenWRT? The latter's last release was three weeks ago.

IIRC, the WRT3200ACM had other large issues in regards to wifi... (WPA3 was off the cards because the firmware blob just does not support protected management frames, for example.)

I haven't stayed up to date with them to be honest. I've switched to ubiquiti access points with my WRT1200AC as just a switch/router. My plan is to upgrade to a x86 box with openwrt or something similar.

So if you had issues with the WRT3200acm I'd go a different route

I just tried the wrt3200acm with openwrt for about a month and it wasn’t nearly stable enough. The wifi issue is pretty well know and people seem to be working on it but I’d stay away.

dd-wrt has worked fine for me on this, but I'm a pretty casual user. Couple of video streams and phones, pi-hole, a couple laptops, all of which are idle most of the time.

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