[eric__cartman]

I always found it baffling how a community maintained project like OpenWrt can not only keep routers updated for many years (unlike the manufacturer that gives you an update once in a blue moon for the first 2 years) but make these cheap routers so useful and so stable you just forget the thing is there in the first place. I can't remember the last time I had to reboot a router running OpenWrt because it started behaving erratically.

You can do a lot with these commodity ARM CPUs, 64-128MB of ram and a few tens of megabytes of flash storage.

[maerF0x0]

i literally have my comcast router on a 24 hour time and it shutsdown for an hour each night from 3-4am . Communism style brownouts of internet over night