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by ctoth
1655 days ago
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As far as I understand, no Wi-Fi 6 routers actually run Openwrt. The only way to get somewhat open software on your Wi-fi 6 or newer device is to use Merlin's fork of Asuswrt. Merlin is pretty big on not making large modifications though, so, for instance, it's very difficult to get Docker running on the device because the default Kernel doesn't ship with a lot of necessary modules. There are some nice apps that use the router directly like Diversion but I would really love a little device that managed everything from VLAN tagging to running little docker appliances and also provided a fast modern AP. Imagine an app store where the moderate power user could click and install apps on their router that all lived in little containers. |
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This is no longer the case. Some devices (albeit not too many) now have working 802.11ax [0].
I know most about the Linksys E8450, which does require a newer snapshot of OpenWRT (it's not yet in a stable release).
[0] https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_16128_ax-wifi