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by nfriedly
563 days ago
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I have this router, running the latest official stable build of OpenWRT, and I'm very happy with it. I particularly appreciate that it has two 2.5gbps ports, so it can route a > 1gbps internet connection, unlike the OpenWRT One. Switching from stock to OpenWRT was incredibly easy. I have to reboot it about once every month or two (my previous router, a Netgear R7800, only needed to be rebooted maybe once every other year.) But I hear that the nightly builds are a bit better in this respect, so I expect the stable builds will improve with time. I installed the LibreSpeed-go package, and it can completely saturate the 2.5gbps LAN port. |
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Thanks for the tip. LibreSpeed-go works slick-enough to actually be useful for the kinds of things I care about at home.
And because it is apparently not cohesively documented anywhere, here's brief instructions for a semi-clued person to quickly make LibreSpeed-go work on OpenWRT:
1. Install the package. Might as well do it from CLI because we need to go there anyway. Log into the router with ssh, and do an "opkg update" and then "opkg install librespeed-go"
2. Enable it. Edit /etc/config/librespeed-go with, eg, "nano /etc/config/librespeed-go" and set "Enabled" from 0 to 1.
3. Start it. "/etc/init.d/librespeed-go restart" works.
4. Use it. Fire up a web browser somewhere on the LAN, and visit http://your.router.addy:8989
5. Clicky button. Observe speed.