[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.