• Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    2 months ago

    Definitely want one of those. My adblock and PiHole are both refusing to allow the link for the $89 samples to load, so will probably have to wait until they’re more generally available.

    Also wish it had 2.5 Gb LAN as well so it could replace my current, power-hungry router for my 2 Gb service. However, $89 is still a good deal for an OpenWRT Wifi 6 access point.

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      2 months ago

      Protip: Run a socks5h proxy server on the pi that does not use its own DNS resolver. Then FoxyProxy on your browser with the default being off/direct. Then whenever you need it, switch that one tab to use the proxy to bypass your blocking.

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    2 months ago

    I’ve been running OpenWrt for over 10 years but at this point it is trash. The documentation is outdated, the packages aren’t well maintained and Luci development is torture. I’m so ready to stop trying and get UniFi devices. Heck, pfSense/OPNsense are so much better.

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        2 months ago

        You’ve made good points here. Using them as dumb AP points or basic budget routers makes sense. If I want more advanced and user-friendly configuration then I might look elsewhere, but for those use cases, can’t go wrong.

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      2 months ago

      I also have been running OpenWRT for over 10 years and I agree, software management is archaic and painful. I exclusively use it for dumb APs now and just use OPNSense upstream to actually manage my network and devices. It’s been pretty nice in that regard for a couple years now.

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        2 months ago

        Seconding this, I do the same. It’s a terrible sign that it took me longer to figure out how to successfully create VLANs and assign them to SSIDs in OpenWRT, which is a fairly simple concept, than it took me to learn basically anything about OPNSense, a vastly more powerful and complex tool.

        I appreciate OpenWRT for giving me FOSS firmware I can slap on my AP, and I certainly don’t want to come across as entitled to the free labor of the developers, but it’s just objectively not very good from a UI/UX perspective.

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      2 months ago

      what, ive been running it pretty smoothly for just about a decade now…

      what do you dislike about it?