I’ve been running OpenWRT on my routers for a while now. It started off as just an experiment on my Mi Router 3c, but it now forms a very integral part of my homelab.

I’ve since helped set up OpenWRT on a lot of different routers for my friends’ home networks, giving old routers a new lease of life and making it more secure.

Of the different routers I’ve come across that support OpenWRT, Xiaomi ones tend to stand out to me:

  • They’re fairly cheap
  • Easily procurable in most markets
  • Have very very decent specs for the price point, and,
  • Aren’t hard to put OpenWRT on

I think I’ve only seen routers from TP-Link come close to this level of support for OpenWRT, but their hardware variations often throws an axe when it comes to OpenWRT support.

What are your thoughts, and what do you run OpenWRT on?

  • seemebreakthis@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Just got two Xiaomi AX9000’s. Now flashed Openwrt 23.05.0-rc2 to these routers. Running 802.11s mesh, all 4 radios utilized on each of these two bad boys. Perfect setup.

    • inspector@gadgetro.idOPMEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      I don’t think that model is available here in my country :(

      Would love to create a full mesh network, but it’s hard to find multi band devices with OpenWRT support in my country ATM