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Open source router firmware project OpenWrt ships its own entirely repairable hardware
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this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2024
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Oh come on, don’t knock the router for not being the best access point. That’s not what it’s for.
The best routers don't have any WiFi.
If I remember correctly, Wi-Fi 6E was finalized in like 2021 or 2022, and it's 2024 and very close to 2025. So it should be about three years that Wi-Fi 6E has been in the wild. I only have 500 MBPS fiber anyway so I wouldn't saturate the links but I do want the six gigahertz Wi-Fi band because if I'm going to buy a new router I'm going to probably keep it for like 10 years. I think I purchased my previous router in like 2019 and I'm still using it. My router is an appliance that I only replace when the damn thing breaks pretty much.
I’m saying that your router and access point should be separate devices anyway, especially if you don’t want to replace said router.
My router doesn’t have wireless at all. I have a dedicated WiFi 6 access point for that, if I want to go up to a newer standard I just replace the AP.
Yeah, fair enough. I'm kind of an intermediate user, because when I think of Access Point and Router, I think of the same device. But yet, I'm definitely a big advocate of open source software and hardware. But I do not self-host very much.
Less about open source, more of just a practical stance. The thing about networking is that standards change all the time, and it’s better to have a single device serve a single role on the network than to cram all those functions into a combo box.
So an ideal network has a separate router, switch, and access point. Ideally two of each in redundant configurations but that’s not required for most people.