<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">the problem is the 'easy to install' requirement. Too many vendors (including ones that used to be easy to install) are adding extra hoops to jump through on the newer models.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Yes. My fantasy (I can still have fantasies, right? :-) is that people buy one of our recommended routers for a modest price, download our recommended firmware, go to the vendor's "update firmware" page, upload it and reboot.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Then they plug the new router's WAN port into their ISP modem's port, connect their laptop's Ethernet to the LAN port, point their browser to "openwrt.lan" (see <a href="https://forum.openwrt.org/t/cerowrt-ii-would-anyone-care/110554/106" class="">https://forum.openwrt.org/t/cerowrt-ii-would-anyone-care/110554/106</a>) and set the router password, configure SQM, [configure Wi-Fi], and go back to fishing, reading, or other productive work.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Simple, eh? (I wish...)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Rich</div></body></html>