Thanks for covering OpenWrt. It's an amazing piece of tech that doesn't get the credit it deserves. I've fallen so in love with it that I got involved in the community and made my own builds for undocumented ISP routers.
@HugoMskn10 ай бұрын
Thanks for contributing, we don’t thank enough people contributing to open source projects
@senseicheekclapper480510 ай бұрын
just get a luxul
@paodelodeovar705210 ай бұрын
bro can you help me with my weird ahh router?
@onepalesoul10 ай бұрын
Undocumented routers sounds like euphemism for illegal migration xD
@namnamkuragundoshke10 ай бұрын
@@onepalesoul😂😂😂
@TheRustyCrab10 ай бұрын
Great coverage on OpenWRT! I've had nothing but a great experience running it on a cheap TP-Link Archer A7, and it is a dream compared to the other junk firmware that comes with consumer routers. Also, the front-end (LuCI) is incredible! It's relatively easy to install as well, I would highly suggest anyone with a spare router should absolutely install this and give it a shot! It's my main router right now and no problems in the slightest. It's the only software that's ever inspired me to join their community forum and try to contribute! Crazy.
@Ulvis_B10 ай бұрын
It's really hard to install newest tp link routers.
@a89272810 ай бұрын
@@Ulvis_Bshould check Table of hardware first
@rataldo763610 ай бұрын
Cannot recommend OpenWRT enough. I bought a number of Meraki routers at a city auction a few years ago for like $5 each. If I wanted to use the built-in Cisco firmware I would have had to pay a yearly license fee. Thanks to OpenWRT I was able to flash them (needed a UART) and actually use them in my and other family members' homes. Also was pretty straightforward to setup WireGuard between them so we could share a Jellyfin server. Could not recommend enough.
@Skullkid1694510 ай бұрын
UART is such a useful tool. You can even look for bricked routers if you can find them and potentially fix them through a UART connection.
@DroisKargva10 ай бұрын
Meraki for 5$ is crazy 😂🎉 damn
@PabloPaiva3 ай бұрын
OpenWRT is the best base for developers of networking solutions (hardware and software)
@MrPir84free10 ай бұрын
The easiest approach to test out OpenWRT is generally to have a different router available just in case your experiment goes awry. A cheap router that performs basic functions can be had for less than $30. Think of it as an emergency failback for that one time your ideas didn't pan out. If you don't, be sure to at least know how to hook your smart phone up to your computer and use it that way- before you start. The more you experiment, the more likely you'll need a failback. Word of advice: LUCI ( the interface used by OpenWRT ) is set so that if you lose connectivity when making changes, just wait 90 seconds and it should revert back... Don't panic and reset the box or pull the power plug.. WAIT.
@user-vk2cd9qw7i7 ай бұрын
I got a 20 port PoE router / switch for $7 at a thrift store 😅
@kmemz10 ай бұрын
Impeccable timing, literally earlier today I brought up OpenWRT in my workplace, we ended up flashing a small stack of decommissioned and discontinued APs with it. I got off my shift from doing that an hour and a half ago, that makes it roughly thirty minutes after I got off work you talk about the very thing I've been messing with for the day.
@DroisKargva10 ай бұрын
Bro we becoming one 😅
@Bromon65510 ай бұрын
Ok
@oofyeetmcgee10 ай бұрын
Been using OpenWRT for years and couldn't be happier
@Velarieth10 ай бұрын
The latest firmware kinda bit me earlier this year. The firmware I had from TP-Link was dropping connection every hour or so. I found OpenWRT, flashed my router, and it has been stable since then. I had to buy a second hotspot for 2.4 ghz because the routers 2.4 ghz chip is closed source... So that was less than ideal. But I still didn't have to buy a whole new router. I'm super impressed with OpenWRT so far.
@309electronics510 ай бұрын
Its an amazing project but we cant do anything about closed source things/components
@phorsyon10 ай бұрын
@@309electronics5 Not everyone can reverse engineer closed source components, but everyone can raise their voice for open sourcing drivers and hardware documentation. 😉
@Velarieth10 ай бұрын
@@309electronics5 Yup, makes sense. It was a valuable lesson for me for future routers I buy and specifically looking for full OpenWRT support. I'm never going back to closed source after this year.
@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq10 ай бұрын
@@309electronics5 They can be reverse engineered.
@justsomenamelesssoul809710 ай бұрын
@@309electronics5reverse them? 😁
@joels760510 ай бұрын
Good stuff. I love OpenWRT. DD-WRT too I guess. Like you said about those missing binary blobs though, it can really hurt the device. I had one device that went from full gigabit line routing speed to 20-30 megabits because it lost hardware acceleration. I think it's probably a lot better on more modern processors that have enough horsepower to push the data without needing hardware acceleration.
@balazsrako952810 ай бұрын
You can enable hardware and software offloading in the firewall settings. That gives me about 800-900mps, even on slower devices. Though you cant use qos in that case
@joels760510 ай бұрын
@@balazsrako9528I believe that's just shutting off some of the network stack to avoid some of the more CPU intensive work to boost packet throughput. It's not as good as a real hardware accelerator, but it still speeds things dramatically. There are some network chip offloads you can enable as well. Those are cooked into the kernel driver for the network chip. There are other proprietary silicon accelerators, like entire packet processors with stateful packet inspection, DMA engines, crypto engines, or weird virtualization things that need manufacturer binaries to work. The device will work fine without those features just running on software, but the hardware accelerators will be inactive.
@joels760510 ай бұрын
@@balazsrako9528My mistake. OpenWRT does have support Hardware NAT Offload on some devices. Neat! But there are still going to be a ton of vendor closed binaries that won't have support.
@AggressiveMenace10 ай бұрын
I'm pretty happy with DD-WRT in my Netgear router, is just an amazing swiss knife.
@thatscrazy448710 ай бұрын
@@balazsrako9528 on a Linksys EA4500 I have a delay of about 10 seconds util a website starts to load and also the speed at a speed test is 150 mbps and I have gigabyte fiber. I enabled hardware and software offloading and no change. Any idea why ?
@crayzeape223010 ай бұрын
It's most awesome that you showed the entire flashing process in realtime, without which, I expect some folk might be inclined to pull the plug (obviously not good), thinking something is wrong.
@Ardently110 ай бұрын
You are my favorite black man
@meinteybergen461710 ай бұрын
You are my favorite white kid
@xephael34858 ай бұрын
He's black? I thought he was northern Japanese
@modables3 ай бұрын
am I in your top 3 @@meinteybergen4617
@remsee160810 ай бұрын
Jayson Tatum knows about wireless routers and how to route an untalented team in the NBA. Thanks for another great video!
@Cycload10 ай бұрын
lmao I wanna know how many times hes gotten mistaken for Jayson Tatum irl
@GeorgeGzirishvili10 ай бұрын
*Note:* This video doesn't show the full steps. If you see the message indicating that you're in initramfs mode, this means your changes will be undone after a reboot. To finish the installation, you need to flash your router from OpenWrt upgrade interface, after which it'll be a persistent install. On some routers, you'll be able to just flash it from the stock firmware upgrade interface right away.
@tomaszgiba10 ай бұрын
Nice. I used OpenWRT it's really nice. It's also a little limited to what hardware is on your router. For instance I couldn't install many packages because after installing OpenWRT it already had taken 80% of space. In addition I had to install packages dependencies manually. If a package required other package I had to find the other one and install it, and if that other one required some other, then I had to install that too and so on.
@bigiron401810 ай бұрын
Interesting a router was so space limited. Not that I know much on the topic, out of curiosity how much storage did it have?
@guiorgy10 ай бұрын
Pretty sure the absolutely necessary dependencies get selected automatically, and only optional dependencies are left out by default 🤔 From the OpenWRT package documentation: If you say +package [in the Makefile] that means if the current package is selected, it will cause package to be selected. This is the case with tcpdump above. It says that if tcpdump is selected, then select libpcap. e.g. DEPENDS:=+libpcap So, from the above we can see that package developers can define dependencies that must be selected automatically with their package.
@tomaszgiba10 ай бұрын
@@bigiron4018 It was TP-Link TL-WDR4300 (N750) It's listed in OpenWRT docs. 128 MB. Edit: actually 8MB
@mk72v2oq10 ай бұрын
@@tomaszgiba its RAM. Your router has only 8 MB of storage.
@tomaszgiba10 ай бұрын
that's true.. unbelievable @@mk72v2oq
@ghosthunter095010 ай бұрын
This video couldnt come at a more perfect time. I'm just moving and thinking of getting my own hardware for our home network setup.
@ricseeds483510 ай бұрын
I think a lot of people would've benefited from seeing Step 7 being done especially on a Linux box.
@SageHeru7 ай бұрын
I just wrote the same comment. The most crucial step just skipped over.
@Link-channel10 ай бұрын
That is the easy part! Now the hard part is making sense of the menu and of the wiki!
@7eis10 ай бұрын
I remember being dependant on my isp provided router. My port forwards would occasionally go missing. Turned out the isp pushed firmware. Wouldn't be surprised if basically all store bought routers have access for alphabet boys built in
@total_epicness677610 ай бұрын
My ISP requires a fucking APP to manage the router, no web interface
@7eis10 ай бұрын
@@total_epicness6776 bröther they in your phone too now👍
@DroisKargva10 ай бұрын
@@total_epicness6776😂
@vnc.t10 ай бұрын
huawei makes my router, but my isp gave it to me, it runs an isp edition of the firmware that basically just changes ome thing, you cannot change the dns server for dhcp
@dabrams842 ай бұрын
@@total_epicness6776🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
@saschadibbern33910 ай бұрын
Congratulations... I did the openwrt migration last year on 5 boxes. 1. box is the main router for the internal networks and control of outgoing load balancing and failover. This router controls outgoing load balancing (edgerouter 2 & 3 for 2 wireless internet connections - same provider) and failover (edgerouter 4 - for alternative internet connection via neighbors WiFi or my mobile phone) using Mwan3 software-module . Router 5 is a hardware reserve if edgerouter 2-4 burn down, as they are very cheap consumer boxes. Also the setup is configured for 2 ingoing VPNs (private and my company) and has currently 20 vlans and firewall administered security zones. The good thing is also that Wireshark can be used to remote traffik-analysis (via ssh) to inspect networking issues.
@JJFX-10 ай бұрын
I'm glad you made this because it's encouraging me to finally get around to it. I'll happily spend entirely too much time diving into pretty much anything except networking and printers but my frustration with this industry has reached critical mass. My area will have access to fiber soon and the thought of having uncapped upload speeds up to 2 gigabit makes me as excited as when my parents upgraded from dial-up back in the day. The upgraded NAS project I've been putting off is finally at the top of the list.
@Simte10 ай бұрын
The thumbnails should be universally recognised as contemporary art, they are superb hehe.
@JeanPaulB7 ай бұрын
I just pulled an all nighter trying to switch my Archer C20 firmware with OpenWRT, holy cow, that was quite the challenge! In the end it was worth it, the sheer amount of settings it opened up for me is more than I bargained for! But it is a learning curve and careful not to brick your device... I was lucky mine had a workaround to fix it or I'd be in trouble! lol
@theminer49erz10 ай бұрын
I currently run Merlin on my v2 AC68-U's. I'm a big fan of that line of routers. I may look into going full Foss now, thanks! PS: It was nice to hear those tracker tunes! It was like I was there running a Vitality key gen back in the day!
@Skullkid1694510 ай бұрын
I ended up getting a bricked router and flashed the firmware through a UART serial connection. Maybe UART would be a neat subject you could cover in a video or something? Generally because you can use it to access a lot of hardware and dump/flash firmware.
@lebeinderbadewanne10 ай бұрын
I‘m always panicking a bit when I install OpenWRT because it always feels like something is going wrong and it’s killing your router. But once installed, it's just great. And it never killed one of my routers :)
@AlexZanderMuro10 ай бұрын
Been using openwrt for a suuuper long time, and used ddwrt back in the WRT54G days. It's also an awesome for making a software defined router in a VM and connecting all your VMs up to it if you want to test it out before flashing to your hardware, or need some sort of SDR for your use case (ie want to connect all your VMs to a VPN without having to do it on each one manually).
@guiorgy10 ай бұрын
I'd say running an up-to-date firmware on your main, public facing, router is most important, so concider using OpenWRT on that, especially if the manufacturer stopped releasing updates. However, if you are using routers as access points, unless you don't trust the firmware the manufacturer provided, and/or are running those routers in a public setting (where many people might attempt to break into the router), you don't really need to install OpenWRT on them if the stock firmware does the job. I'm running OpenWRT on my main router (which I bought specifically because it was supported by OpenWRT), and 2 routers as access points at home (from those 2, 1 isn't supported, and the other has Broadcom)
@TheLazyJAK10 ай бұрын
Would love a video on the GL-inet routers. The travel ones are cool and come with openWRT
@AGuywhohasGoodTaste10 ай бұрын
Amazing deepfake as always, Luke.
@darukutsu10 ай бұрын
Chat, is this real
@ZenWith10 ай бұрын
@@darukutsuyea sure
@ambiguoustv740310 ай бұрын
He disappeared to focus on his second channel mental outlaw
@Leon-th6nl10 ай бұрын
bros opsec wasn’t good enough 💀
@rainy218210 ай бұрын
lmao
10 ай бұрын
Yes, but let us not forget, that the ISP will, most of the time, not let you run anything else than what is provided and most if the time it is up to the ISP to do that. I would love to run open source firmware on my router/s, which for a local network is fine, but the outside router (most of time the DHCP server) is still under the ISPs control.
@riongronberg143510 ай бұрын
That's only if you use the ISP provided router. I only have a modem from my ISP and run OPNsense on a standalone router
@dragonhero1410 ай бұрын
@@riongronberg1435 This depends. For example, I can use whatever router I want so long as I manage it. However, if you have a provider like AT&T, I've seen and heard in their terms of service that they require a termination of their service to their equipment. In that case, I would strongly recommend only using their router(as a modem) for it's ethernet port to your own managed router for wifi and other features.
@jonasb439510 ай бұрын
I think my country just added a law going in to next year that, customers can use their own routers
@DroisKargva10 ай бұрын
Bridge that ISP modem mofo and connect openwrt router to that. Worked for me idk 🤷♂️
@hafo82110 ай бұрын
OpenWrt and OpenSSH are the best opensource projects ever. Very cheap tp-link routers can be used for SSH tunneling after some RAM and FLASH storage upgrade, i will probably make a video about it in the future. OpenWrt router with enough flash and storage is basically a Linux development board 🙂
@noanyobiseniss746210 ай бұрын
I used to use DD-wrt to create bridges on cheap linksys routers in the early 2000's.
@mareksendecki569510 ай бұрын
I have a router with openwrt. Flashed it a while back "for fun" actually and because I believe the connection is better and more stable (I can bypass ue limits if I want to when it comes to signal strength) but tbh I've just flashed it and didn't touch on it ever since 😂 works great all the time, TP-LINK C6 if I remember correctly
@Look_What_You_Did10 ай бұрын
There was nothing wrong with the factory flash. You also don't understand the fuckery you are doing with your TX power.
@galangtirtayudha397310 ай бұрын
I use OpenWRT and installed in on my spare netbook with 2GB RAM. And man, this OS is amazing. I can install docker and make it a filesharing server, I can install OpenClash to make a pesudo tor network, I can install any linux apps basically. It's great, it only eats 100MB of RAM.
@linuxguy119910 ай бұрын
Personally I use pfSense over OpenWRT and here's why - all of my machines are GNU / Linux based, if there ever were a zero day in GNU / Linux I'd be screwed. To be clear - I'm not saying OpenWRT is better or worse then pfSense, but in the unlikely event that a zero day was found in Linux, preventing attackers from getting to my router would be paramount since all of my systems are GNU / Linux based and would be vulnerable. In the unlikely event of a zero day on FreeBSD then the default firewalls of all of my Linux systems would protect those systems and my router would be the only thing compromised. I could be paranoid but the zero trust security model is always a good way to go. I also built my own router out of a SuperMicro server chassis, I'm not a fan of the junk hardware you get for $100 when for $150 you can get a full on server.
@duduoson130610 ай бұрын
This but opnsense because pfsense devs are lame. Also, cheap 10G interfaces, VLANs, badass TIG stack dashboards, and run a trunk to a cheapo openwrt router that acts as a dumb AP for tons of wifi on different VLANs: separate your iot/guest/work/etc networks y’all.
@linuxguy119910 ай бұрын
@@duduoson1306 A dumb AP is a must I have an Intel Atom board running a pretty minimal install of debian w/ hostapd fot that, and a custom kernel driver I wrote for running a ST7735 display as my dashboard. No IoT crap aside from security cameras on their own ethernet VLAN and some stuff I've custom built running behind W5200s
@jenzo559710 ай бұрын
Please make a video about all the cool stuff you can do on OpenWrt :)
@KingKrouch10 ай бұрын
I need to get around to reflashing OpenWRT to my Netgear XR500 again. The only reason I abandoned it was because when I was moving, I had to connect my router to a router downstairs, as I wanted my own access points and things to be connected via ethernet, and for some reason it just wouldn't work right. Being able to have a network wide adblocker is a nice thing.
@4zims10 ай бұрын
OpenWrt is easily one of the best open source projects ever
@BB-nn9en10 ай бұрын
I use it on a raspberry pi 4. Using a cheap USB gigabit Ethernet adapter and it works great. It also easily handles cake QSM to defeat bufferbloat. I use the built in Ethernet for my network and the USB one to connect to my modem. I think it's good up to 800mbps. Any higher and id be looking for a non USB based connection by using a compute module and board with 2.5gb Ethernet.
@willkendallpro10 ай бұрын
Your public facing router is the most important piece of equipment on a network. If it is not secure, no amount of security on the client side will make much difference. This is the problem I have with IPv6 which seems to want to force every client onto the public internet, instead of behind a NAT router.
@dragonhero1410 ай бұрын
Odd. From my experience private IPv6n IPs exist specifically for the use of pirvate connections and NAT. From How I've configured it in the past as a Network Engineer most platofrms I've worked with allow for both public assignments and NAT. However, my experience with consumer grade gear is very limited(because most of it sucks).
@marvin389810 ай бұрын
NAT is a dirty fix for ipv4 address scarcity. We don't have this problem with ipv6, so we don't use NAT! True end to end connectivity how it should be. For Security there are Firewalls. So that connections from the WAN are blocked. Every device has a public ipv6 address and the firewall blocks connections from the outside.
@marvin389810 ай бұрын
@@dragonhero14 IPv6 ULA (private addresses) are for local communication. If you have no IPv6 WAN connectivity but you need to speak v6 internally. Or you have a dynamic prefix allocated but you need static internal addressing. For communication with the outside world your computer uses its Global Unicast IPv6 Address. In 99% of the cases there is no need for NAT. Only Multihoming is an exception at the moment. And than you should use NPTv6 instead of NAT.
@serrajoni104310 ай бұрын
IPV6 has no NAT only IPV4.
@dragonhero1410 ай бұрын
@@serrajoni1043 I guess it's not NAT in the exact same what for IPv6. But it's called NAT66 an it's used as a solution by several platforms for for replacing NAT when needed. There are larger scale reasons for NAT to exist with IPv6.
@shotgun1995hot10 ай бұрын
I remember working on openwrt firmware based router back in 2017, my than ceo had asked me that, since openwrt is unix and freebsd based firmware so technically a kali linux(gui one) can also run a Linksys router. To which i had replied not yet please get back to me in 2077😂
@nadtz10 ай бұрын
I've run DD-WRT and OpenWRT on some consumer stuff, great project but moved to opnsense now a days.
@TeaBroski10 ай бұрын
ROUTER: How the NSA slurps your traffic
@SuxkLess10 ай бұрын
Finally! I have been waiting for OpenWRT video
@codemiesterbeats10 ай бұрын
Even though I've been passingly involved in computers since kindergarten (in my school in the boonies of VA in like 1993 I was in a "special class" where we did basic stuff with computers... I think it was basically to test out the idea of actually having computer classes) Anyways long story short I didn't own a computer until I was about 17. My next door neighbor is apparently rich asf and I was able to get a open wi-fi signal for several years when we first built our house. I then essentially done the research on what I needed to redistribute the signal throughout my house so I could use my computer anywhere... Instead of being relegated to approximately 1 square foot😅 I ended up making a repeater out of an old Linksys router by running ddwrt... I even built a highly directional Wi-Fi antenna out of an old satellite dish📡 Anywhos my internet worked great and for free for like 5 years. I am fairly certain the ISP or someone probably set up a new router for the neighbor... Of course my network that I now pay for has a clever ssid that is unusual enough that it doesn't sound like a government spook right off the bat however if they Google my ssid it will probably scare the pants off of somebody 😂😂
@ChaosTheory66610 ай бұрын
I'm a Asuswrt-Merlin enjoyer myself.
@dbpsychodelic10 ай бұрын
Make a FOSS app list for android / Windows. I have been watching your videos all week. Keep up the amazing job, man. Thank you!
@Slugbunny10 ай бұрын
My Asus router was unstable and even unable to serve the UI on default fw. Changing to AsusWRT made everything better. Good luck to OpenWRT!
@binky_bun10 ай бұрын
I was just wondering if you'd done a video on this. I use OpenWRT but rather than flashing the firmware on some crappy big box brand router I run it on an OrangePi R1 Plus solely as a router, No wifi, no DNS, no DHCP that's all handled elsewhere by things like pihole for dns and dhcp and I used TP link poweline adaptors / range extenders for wifi. I also have a managed switch with a dedicated DMZ netowrk on it's own vlan for my Tor relay node so if anything spooky happened to that since it has a port open to the world it's isolated from everything else
@Look_What_You_Did10 ай бұрын
So a Rube Goldberg network. Sounds like a real treat. Actually it sounds like a lie.
@binky_bun10 ай бұрын
@@Look_What_You_Did Ha no it's very well engineerd. I've got 20 years under my belt as a Linux / AWS and network admin and I've seen some Rube Goldberg shit in my time at some very large companies I've worked for. My setup is stupid simple in comparison but it's certainly a bit of a rats nest though. I'm not married though so I get away with shit like that. Occasianly there's some interesting stuff on this channel that's a ways outside my usual bubble so ther's always something to learn
@udevadm10 ай бұрын
Would be good to note that you are running in initramfs, you haven't actually installed OpenWrt at this point. You need to then sysupgrade to actually complete the install.
@floppa941510 ай бұрын
Love those tutorials, keep em comming!
@coccapeepee10 ай бұрын
absolutely love OpenWRT will never run a router again without it 👍
@dabrams842 ай бұрын
LMAO your thumbnails are always so good.
@richardpickman557410 ай бұрын
The glowing one telling you what to install to your machine! Rebel, brothers! One day the technologies will fall! And also suggest you to use only one approach source of internet, that can be possible. Mental Outlaw, you won't trick us!
@notsparktion10 ай бұрын
OpenWRT is so great!
@h.s318710 ай бұрын
Luke if someday you read this I hope come back with your channel
@nickxx972910 ай бұрын
using wrt for i while, awesome stuff
@francetrevi10 ай бұрын
doing god's work as always
@eyzinn9110 ай бұрын
I have openwrt on my router. I had to find some fixes for WiFi antenna stuff related for my particular router and build an image from source. But upgrading the router to new version is much easier, only had to patch it with custom image for the first time
@spikeprotien902310 ай бұрын
Have been using dd-wrt for years, much better than factory f/w
@leapbtw10 ай бұрын
asking for Europe shipping on based win day 10, really want that hoodie, love your content ❤
@MentalOutlaw10 ай бұрын
Gotta make sure we're compliant with all them laws and shit, will probably happen after I get my licenses to sell farm stuff here in USA
@leapbtw10 ай бұрын
@@MentalOutlaw thanks for letting us know!
@husar554310 ай бұрын
sadge@@MentalOutlaw
@7eis10 ай бұрын
Do you accept cookies?
@DaEpic10 ай бұрын
@@7eislol
@auto11766610 ай бұрын
The AntiChrist provides SaaS for all of your networking needs. The main selling point is their “deferred payment” financing model.
@JoshuaCamacho0910 ай бұрын
This is me pretending to understand and implement everything I just heard. Thank you.
@ozerune10 ай бұрын
Would you trust Ubiquiti enough to not switch to OpenWRT?
@DroisKargva10 ай бұрын
I installed tor client gateway last month using openwrt as you sugested. I didn’t felt good and felt like i am under surveillance all the time. So i ditched it 😂
@96ethanh10 ай бұрын
"Become a remote blackhat network administrator" hahah now that is some good comedy right there
@demanuDJ10 ай бұрын
I'm using openwrt but only as AP/switch, as my Firewall/router I'm using pfsense, for me its way much better. But I still think that OpenWRT is a great solution
@repairstudio494010 ай бұрын
Pf sense just got exploited ....check the CVE and CISA for details man.
@angelo380510 ай бұрын
why not use opensense?
@repairstudio494010 ай бұрын
@@angelo3805 makes sense. 😁👍🏻
@borisvokladski584410 ай бұрын
Me too. I want to separate my router and my access point. My AP is an old Netgear router with ddwrt
@demanuDJ10 ай бұрын
@@angelo3805 To be honest... I don't know, I just started using pfSense and it works for me. I can use OPNsense instead.
@stevengill173610 ай бұрын
Sounds great, I'll give it a try, thanx!!
@Athonite10 ай бұрын
The Gargoyle variant is a great firmware as well.
@dfgdfg_10 ай бұрын
What does it give you over openwrt?
@Athonite10 ай бұрын
@@dfgdfg_ Largely the same, but includes several packages pre-installed and some kernel optimizations. I prefer the GUI over OpenWRT's LuCI. The maintainer of the project has a forum that is super responsive to questions.
@by01010 ай бұрын
1:25 Not that I did not considered it. First time I flashed Tomato (another firmware) in my life was on my WNR3500L in 2010 when I was still underaged kid. Imagine managing to get it thru with father who never agrees to anything. Trick was that I bought the router and I configured it and offered it to parents since their setup succced really horribly, and my setup was marketably better. Still horrible since the pipe was ADSL2 based, but you could press f5 on 2 computers on lan at once without 5 second lag.
@jbgrenouille25278 ай бұрын
Thanks for the content, please a video with the best modules to install from openwrt
@samgould856710 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, OpenWrt doesn’t work on Apple Airport Extreme yet. I have an old one of those that I want to repurpose as a switch and for now I just need to use the stock firmware and software (I think the OS is NetBSD). It’s probably OK since I’ll have the antennas disabled and the device will be behind a firewall, but still a bummer. I wanted an excuse to get into OpenWrt without obtaining more hardware, and configuring a simple switch seemed like a low-risk introduction.
@Look_What_You_Did10 ай бұрын
People that choose apple for networking earn the pain.
@samgould856710 ай бұрын
@@Look_What_You_Did I’ve replaced macOS with Linux (Fedora and Debian) on two old Macs with no trouble. Was thinking it would be relatively easy to do something similar with Airports, but I was wrong. Still holding out on the possibility someday.
@OraOraOra10 ай бұрын
Hey I really like that you rock your own Merch. I would like to cop an oversized T . . .
@x3lA10 ай бұрын
Lil late to tge party but I'm learning how to set up an OpnSense router/server currently. It'd be cool to see some coverage on custom router boxes from you too!
@Sunil-dl9ep10 ай бұрын
Need of the day 👍
@colly602210 ай бұрын
a VoIP phone i set up for my grandparents actually came with a GPLv3 pamphlet and resources to get the source code to the firmware... extremely weird seeing that in an actual consumer device!
@LUMIN6910 ай бұрын
Dewie looks so good luke.
@dertythegrower10 ай бұрын
Do an episode on the best 3-5 routers to use.. and also, wifi7 came out, so its a perfect timing.. especially, tis the season. Cheers 🤙
@dertythegrower10 ай бұрын
affiliate game, could pay your proptax heh
@l0gic2310 ай бұрын
WiFi 7 is just marketing for the next n+1 years
@Cat_in_The-Box10 ай бұрын
I can't find any DSL routers supported by open wrt or alternatives for sale where I live sadly
@Play_it311010 ай бұрын
Hey, i wanted to try OpenWrt but i couldnt install it on my device, because i got no support for it. Can you make a video to show other alternatives and what to do if it is not supported?
@formbi10 ай бұрын
oh, I have such a router too, I'm gonna try installing OpenWRT on it :D
@runed0s8610 ай бұрын
I use dd-wrt because openwrt doesn't come with proprietary blobs required for the hardware that I have. Configuration is also MUCH easier on ddwrt.
@WilliamWatrous10 ай бұрын
you should cover MPTCP next!
@canlelola10 ай бұрын
Yea, look this is great and all but ISP routers and modems really should be getting some love.
@zeeweenor10 ай бұрын
good video kinda cool because i was looking for the old fresh tomato vid yesterday lol
@replikvltyoutube372710 ай бұрын
Openwrt saved me from faulty TP-Link firmware I no longer had to reboot it once in a while
@jameslibby521510 ай бұрын
Ive been thinking about developing a portable router. Have any of y'all built one? I can think of several really interesting/useful use cases
@Iron_Condorr10 ай бұрын
I was surprised my Verizon 5g Home Gateway+Router was open source. 😊
@rexvizsla156710 ай бұрын
Great video!
@IMBlakeley8 ай бұрын
Been using a Pi4b as a router for a while now with OpenWRT.
@noanyobiseniss746210 ай бұрын
Add a Jtag to that giga chad.
@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq10 ай бұрын
What music did you use in the video montage bit?
@jeanbaptist625510 ай бұрын
Best feature is having a wireless WAN interface. how to steal internet and having your own network
@Unmixable40410 ай бұрын
Using it on a VM. Reboots are so much faster now.
@darthmaster693810 ай бұрын
Yes more tutorials!!!!
@SageHeru7 ай бұрын
As a noob to flashing routers, Step #7 would have been nice to explain. 😑
Don't forget open builds based on OpenWrt like Kong builds for Linksys R7800
@schittPosts10110 ай бұрын
Idk if you guys can help, but I bought a modem that is also a wireless AP that’s also a router that’s also a switch, and I was trying to flash it to throw FOSS on it, and I found that ISPs lock down MY OWN equipment so I can’t update my own firmware on it. Is there anyway I can flash it or spoof a firmware update to have it look like my isp is pushing it
@FineWine-v4.010 ай бұрын
We seriously need a router that conmes pre-installed with FOSS firmware