[jfroma]

I use this very same feature of openwrt to load balance between my two ISPs. Here in argentina neither of the two ISP are reliable, but cheap enought if you really use then and you need reliability. I recommend multiwan3 as the op suggest, other pkgs didnt work for me. Some modern routers have two radios for 2.5 and 5ghz, but even with one radio openwrt allows you to set it up as client and ap. I find other features of openwrt quite amazing like dnsmasq. It is a really powerful firmware.

[proctor]

I find openWRT is a really useful firmware project and I use it in any situation where it is feasible. Bandwidth Throttling / QOS is often in demand. Wireless Bridging works well. A nice side effect of using openWRT is that you sidestep many of the "backdoors" that sometimes appear (intentionally or otherwise) in stock firmware. I also helped create a page that can help find the current most powerful routers that support WRT: http://rooftopbazaar.com/routerfirmware/

[simplexion]

It's such a shame that WD discontiued their MyNet range. I have a N750 and it is an awesome router with OpenWrt running. It was far more powerful (SoC + Memory) than any other router I looked at.

I bought it for AUD$50. The closest router in terms of price + power was a TP-Link for around AUD$70 and it still was behind on features.

[jfroma]

I use the TP-Link WDR4300, because it was the best I could find here

[1]: http://www.tp-link.com/resources/images/products/large/TL-WD...

[zobzu]

routers are more expensive and less flexible these days. industry decided that. what you could get for 50usd (and runs linux, reflashable with your own fw) is now around 200usd and does not support open firmwares like openwrt.

because you know, capitalism and stuff.

[listic]

I was going to go with pfSense for that feature. Do you think it makes sense?

[jfroma]

I used pfSense in a very different context (vpn gateway) and I used the vmware image option. I haven't used the multiwan feature and I don't know if it can be installed on (almost) any router as openwrt.

I did tried dd-wrt for this same purpose, the interface is much better, it is very flexible as openwrt, but I couldn't put my wifi on client and AP mode at the same time and I needed to connect to one of my WAN using wifi because that modem is not close enough yet.

[pyvpx]

pfSense is a re-packaged FreeBSD. you'll find pfSense doesn't support as wide a variety of platforms (anything MIPS) or wireless cards.

[anonbanker]

that's quite disingenuous. it uses pf, openSSH, and LibreSSL (in development version) from OpenBSD on top of a FreeBSD core, and it's wireless card support is not very much below linux (though you might need to work to get it up).

if you have older x86 hardware, it's hard to top pfsense.

[anonbanker]

if you have hardware that supports both pfsense and openWRT, choose pfsense. it's far more robust a package.