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Hopefully this is a simple question. I have a busted (seemingly) EdgeRouter from Ubiquiti that needs replacing.

I am currently on an old ASUS that was from the before times and it's "fine" but not updated any longer (even with the 3rd party firmware). So I'm in the market to get something new.

What's a nice all in one unit for OpenWRT? I have a very small 1000sqft house so generally speaking I have zero issues with range and everything is wireless anyway. I just want reliability and set it and forget it, generally speaking.

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Check out teklager, I suspect they have the best option for you but my research on this was done about 2 years ago so you might want to have a look around. There's cheaper options that come from China but I am paranoid about back doors.

https://teklager.se/en/knowledge-base/which-router-should-i-...

Probably won't apply to you but for rackmount I have a Gigabyte GA-IMB410TN + Pentium Gold G6405, in a 1U Logic Case SC-1280, with a quad-port 2.5 GbE Realtek PCIe NIC (r8125) to supplement the motherboard's dual 1 GbE Intel NICs (igb & e1000e).

The motherboard can run off of 12-19V DC input via 5.5mm barrel jack (e.g. any old unused high-power laptop charger), or 12V via a 4-pin CPU EPS power connector (they are commoned together). Since the case comes with a 250W 1U Flex ATX power supply, I'm doing the latter.

This lets me take the PSU's 12V rail out via the barrel jack (edit: with 18 AWG cable, I know) to power the modem and a couple of TP-Link 2.5 GbE network switches which all run on 12V, saving 3 wall warts. Both switches are velcroed to the top lid with 20cm patch cords for 2.5 GbE ports 1 and 4. I have 5 LANs at home, so the 6x wired ethernet ports this gives me are perfect.

OpenWRT runs pretty great on amd64 and I've been running the v24.10 branch (pre-release) for several months on it without issue.

I've been running an old Netgear R7800, as an all-in-one plastic OpenWrt router+switch+WiFi.

It's been so solid, that I haven't bothered to move to the Netgear RAX120v2 that I bought as an OpenWrt upgrade. (It tested fine with OpenWrt 24-rc, then I put it in storage for a more pressing occasion to upgrade.)

I also got a Netgear WAX220 WiFi AP, which I put OpenWrt 24-rc on, and tested with an OPNsense box (since OPNsense isn't good for WiFi). I decided I preferred OpenWrt for my simple needs for the router, but it's a nice enough OpenWRT WiFi AP that I expect to need it again someday, maybe to hang off a beefy OpenWrt PC-based router that's running IDS/IPS or something.

I went searching the OpenWRT forums and wiki for recommendations and ended up with the GL.iNet MT-6000. The stock firmware is a gui around a modern OpenWRT and they don’t try to lock it down at all so flashing is easy.

Thanks, I ended up going with this one. Looks like there's a new Flint 3 coming, but rumors seem to be indicating it is going to be more expensive and is possibly not OpenWRT compatible due to chipset. So, Flint 2 it is for now.

Seconded. The MT-6000 is basically the gold standard for OpenWRT at this point in time.

I recommend a Dynalink AX3600. Really fast CPU, tons of RAM, great WiFi, and works perfectly with OpenWrt. $59 on Amazon.

Take a look at OpenWRT One.

I'm happy with OpenWRT on a NanoPi R4S, but that doesn't have wifi built in.

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