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Meanwhile, what router do you suggest, to be used with openwrt?

There isn't a wide consensus anymore, like there was with the buffalo model.

Integrated modem would be nice, but it is very difficult to find it.

edit: available in EU; Linksys E8450/Belkin RT3200 aren't available on Italy it seems.

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More generally, is there a good place to ask these questions? There are several under this post already with different requirements, and I have one too, with different requirements — I just want an edge gateway to route upstream and provide basic local network services (DCHP et al, and will turn off any radios) at low power. OpenWRT's hardware table seems not very useful; I can't, for instance, filter for at least two ethernet ports.

I have very basic requirements: a solid router that runs, and has some free memory. Everytime that I try to find a replacement that has some wide consensus, I fail to find it. My router is now 15 years old... Some people in this thread have suggested Linksys E8450/Belkin RT3200, which aren't available in EU it seems. So, it's not easy. I'll wait 15 more years probably.

I'm happy with the RT3200 based on Filogic 800 but now you could get Flint 2 or BPi-R3 based on Filogic 830.

https://store-eu.gl-inet.com/en-jp/products/flint-2-gl-mt600...

>OpenWRT's hardware table seems not very useful; I can't, for instance, filter for at least two ethernet ports.

You could download the CSV dump of the hardware table [1] and filter in e.g. LibreOffice Calc.

[1] https://openwrt.org/_media/toh_dump_tab_separated.zip

I found Mercusys AX6000 (aka mr90x) to be a great choice.

https://openwrt.org/toh/mercusys/mr90x_v1

Anything with the MT7986B chipset is a good choice, they support Wifi6, have a 2.5G ethernet port, have decent amounts of RAM/flash and mostl importantly have a fast enough CPU to do high speed WAN to LAN routing and firewalling.

I can make a vote against x86 in a virtualized environment like ProxMox. Setup is just way harder than it needs to be and there are a lot of gotchas.

I’m looking as well. Although now it seems like I should just buy this BPi when it is available. I would like to go back to ARM on my router… just nothing Broadcom!

What is harder? I have a setup just like that. Create VM, use open wrt image as disk Vm, configure some passthrough for the nics and press start?

Updates are as easy as other device (press button on web interface or use openwrt cli)

IMO, owrt runs best on x86 (it’s your usual Linux kernel after all) and you get the best support and performance. You also avoid a lot of all the bugs related to embedded development with custom SoC, internal switch, vlans, flash layout, possibility of brick, bootloader stuff, etc.

I welcome you to come on over and set my VLANs up, because because my x86 hardware and ProxMox, it is not happening.

Last time I checked the Linksys E8450/Belkin RT3200 was widely recommended.

The Linksys E8450/Belkin RT3200 is a solid and affordable router. UBI firmware support, hardware NAT offloading and DSA support for better VLAN performance. Less than perfect WiFi range.

If I was buying today, I would want something with more than 1GbE.

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