[funnyflamigo]

Linksys does!

They have a series of routers designed to support OpenWRT (which IMO is better then DD-WRT but preferences of course). If it supports OpenWRT then others shouldn't be difficult to load on it either.

https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt_ac_series

I've had a decent experience with OpenWRT on a WRT1200AC

EDIT: I haven't used it for actual wifi (just routing/switching) in a few years so I don't know how good they are nowadays.

EDIT 2: OP asked for open source hardware, not hardware that runs open source firmware - my bad!

[LeifCarrotson]

Linksys does not make Open Source Hardware.

Also, it ships with their proprietary "Smart Wi-Fi", not OpenWRT.

> While the Linksys WRT1200AC provides an outstanding experience via Smart Wi-Fi immediately out of the box, advanced users can further modify the router with open source firmware. Developed for use with OpenWRT, an open source Linux-based... [0]

No one, to my knowledge, makes the appropriate Gigabit Ethernet (ideally Dual Gigabit Ethernet) + Wifi Open-Source Hardware SBC that could be used as a router. There are a lot of SBCs with open-source software and mostly-accurate PDFs of their schematics, but very few (the Olimex OLinuXino project, maybe?) that are actually open hardware.

I do understand that truly open-source hardware is a tough sell, as Jay pointed out in his amazing piece "So you want to build an Embedded Linux system" [1]

> People forget that these EVKs are built at substantially higher volumes than prototype hardware is; I often have to explain to inexperienced project managers why it’s going to cost nearly $4000 [2] to manufacture 5 prototypes of something you can buy for $56 [3] each.

And an EVK is likely built at a lower volume than a consumer SBC. The idea that someone can download your hardware design, modify it, and respin it for their desired open-source router but now with a piezo buzzer added might work for Arduino-scale hardware projects but simply isn't reasonable for something that reaches the performance required of a router.

[0]: https://www.linksys.com/ca/wireless-routers/wrt-wireless-rou...

[1]: https://jaycarlson.net/embedded-linux/#

[2]: https://circuithub.com/projects/jaycarlson/BEAGLEBONE_BLACK/...

[3]: https://www.newark.com/beagleboard/bbone-black-4g/beaglebone...

[funnyflamigo]

I apologize I misread OP's question. I incorrectly interpreted it as "hardware that supports opensource firmware such as DD-WRT/Tomato".

In terms of hardware like you mentioned there's few open source SBC's at all. Even fairly open hardware like the raspberry pi have a proprietary firmware blob. I guess it will come down to how strictly you define "open source". If you define it as "we have firmware/schematics for every chip on the board" then we'll likely never have that (I don't think even Linksys has that type of access).

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

I tried OpenWRT a few years ago on my WRT3200acm and the wireless quality was severely lacking. Has a lot changed since then? Do you think it's worth giving another go?

It hasn't been updated since Jan of 2020 but I also don't see any vulns listed for it.

[aetherspawn]

I tried OpenWRT on my D-Link router and yeah it was super flaky, dropping the WiFi for around a minute at random times throughout the day.

The web interface was much better than stock firmware though.

But I have recently settled for the tp-link Archer AX50 which is very stable and comes with a great web interface, plenty of advanced features.

Not tried OpenWRT on the latter.

[wtallis]

> It hasn't been updated since Jan of 2020 but I also don't see any vulns listed for it.

Are you referring to the manufacturer's firmware or OpenWRT? The latter's last release was three weeks ago.

[Namidairo]

IIRC, the WRT3200ACM had other large issues in regards to wifi... (WPA3 was off the cards because the firmware blob just does not support protected management frames, for example.)

[funnyflamigo]

I haven't stayed up to date with them to be honest. I've switched to ubiquiti access points with my WRT1200AC as just a switch/router. My plan is to upgrade to a x86 box with openwrt or something similar.

So if you had issues with the WRT3200acm I'd go a different route

[mikeyschaefer]

I just tried the wrt3200acm with openwrt for about a month and it wasn’t nearly stable enough. The wifi issue is pretty well know and people seem to be working on it but I’d stay away.

[stjohnswarts]

dd-wrt has worked fine for me on this, but I'm a pretty casual user. Couple of video streams and phones, pi-hole, a couple laptops, all of which are idle most of the time.

[silasdavis]

Also very happy with openwrt on this device. Really quite a decent gui tui and config. Setting up always on open vpn and wireguard was reasonably painless and works well.