<div dir="ltr">Hello Rich,<div><br></div><div>The answer for me is anything from <a href="https://www.gl-inet.com">https://www.gl-inet.com</a> - I have installed a few, no problem at all with anything. It's fairly cheap as well.</div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>All the best,</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Frank<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Frantisek (Frank) Borsik<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/frantisekborsik" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/frantisekborsik</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp: +421919416714 <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">iMessage, mobile: +420775230885<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Skype: casioa5302ca<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="mailto:frantisek.borsik@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">frantisek.borsik@gmail.com</a></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 11:15 PM Rich Brown via Bloat <<a href="mailto:bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net">bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">For the last several years, I have responded on various boards to complaints about bad latency with a happy-go-lucky "Or just try OpenWrt!". [recent example: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/1ay509v/comment/krx120h/?context=3" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/1ay509v/comment/krx120h/?context=3</a>] I used to mention IQrouter, but that's no longer a possibility.<br>
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Not wanting to give hollow advice, I decided to gather information about router models that support OpenWrt without much risk to a newcomer's: <br>
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- home/family network<br>
- free time<br>
- wallet<br>
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My hope was to collect a few recommendations for units that might permit a someone who was intrigued by our "Just try OpenWrt!" enthusiasm to spend a few bucks and a few hours and see if it made things better. So I threw this note over the wall to the OpenWrt forum: <a href="https://forum.openwrt.org/t/best-newcomer-router-2024/189050" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://forum.openwrt.org/t/best-newcomer-router-2024/189050</a> <br>
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Along with two options (only available on eBay), I got back a whole lot of unsatisfactory responses. (See <a href="https://forum.openwrt.org/t/best-newcomer-router-2024/189050/21" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://forum.openwrt.org/t/best-newcomer-router-2024/189050/21</a>)<br>
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But then thoughtful messages started arriving, discussing the state of the world for modern OpenWrt routers, and why the firmware really isn't as easy to install as one might wish, how capable routers aren't as inexpensive as one might hope, etc.<br>
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Am I right to despair? Are there no routers out there that we can recommend in good faith that are easy to install, powerful enough (for SQM) at ordinary speeds, and won't break the bank?<br>
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Many thanks.<br>
<br>
Rich<br>
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