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I have many nerdy friends who have been Linux users for ages. But most of them don't know such a thing as Openwrt exists or have never bothered to give it a try. It's a very fun piece of software to play with and can be extremely useful for routing traffic. Wondering why it isn't more popular/widely used.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

A portable router when you’re traveling?

[–] CameronDev 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Whether it is as secure as I would like, I am not sure, but it definitely seems better than just raw dogging a random wifi network.

Lmao. Thanks for the read and laugh.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

A lot of places will restrict the number of devices you can connect. If I connect my router to the hotel WiFi, I can connect as many devices as I want. I also like having a firewall between my devices and the public WiFi. I can run a VPN on the router and have all of my devices go through it if necessary as well.