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OpenWRT router (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I am looking for a router, and OpenWRT came up. I was looking at their table of hardware and the ASUS RT-AC3100 seemed like a good option, as its cheap used, (~$40 USD) and supported by the latest OpenWRT version.

Thing is, its EOL, per Asus. Does this mean that it won't be supported on OpenWRT for much longer?

Is there a way to see or estimate when a router will no longer work on OpenWRT?

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[–] 8 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

Yes, OpenWRT lasts way longer. Main thing that ends support is hardware requirements. My old devices with only a few megabytes of memory got dropped eventually. Not because of the chipset, a modern OpenWRT would just not fit any longer. I rarely see other reasons for them to discontinue updates.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Sure. Sadly I don't have the proper tools around to do that. And in my case I wasn't too sad. These devices had 100mbps ethernet and a slow wifi standard. Now they're on e-waste and I got an upgrade to Gigabit ethernet and 5GHz wifi 😆

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    it could be easier though to make a slimmer custom build, without luci and other noncritical things

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