[Decade]

I have one of their dual-channel mini routers, the GL-AR750. The preinstalled OS is a fork of OpenWRT that comes bundled with Wireguard, Samba, and several other useful programs, but the package repository doesn’t have the variety of the OpenWRT repository.

The hardware is fully supported by the OpenWRT project, so installing plain OpenWRT is easy.

But it’s still a relatively slow device (650 MHz MIPS 24Kc) with throughput well below 100 Mbps when encrypting. The faster GL-AR750S is still well below 100 Mbps when encrypting. That’s the tradeoff of a small and cheap device that can be powered by a USB 5V power adapter.

The more annoying part is that the 5 GHz WiFi has not been certified for DFS, and therefore DFS channels are disabled.