| I'm using openWRT on a Zyxel Armor Z2 router. Today they are $170 on Amazon. The flashing process was exactly the same as the factory firmware. After that I had to configure it just as I would any new router. It's better than the factory firmware in every way except user friendliness, but even that isn't bad unless you are trying to something more advanced. The CPE from Comcast was so much slower and worse in every single way. Now it only acts as a modem for the Zyxel. An important part of my experience is that I deliberately set out to buy a good router that was very well supported by openWRT, because in the past I have had experiences similar to your post (but with dd-wrt in the long long ago). I really believe if you plan the project like you would a production project you'll have an extremely good experience. That said, I did have a number of non-standard things I wanted to do on my home network without paying thousands for enterprise level hardware so it was worth it for me to do that work. If I was just getting on line with a couple computers, phones, and tv's I wouldn't have bothered to flash with openWRT. |