<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Big-big fan of the RT-AC68U from ASUS. It's what I use at 3 locations.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Not a new product but should be available relatively easy?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">128M/256M flash/dram.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Local config'ing</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">According to a brother(IT guy), most all of the new routers are very cloud-happy and are absolutely not appropriate for a privacy-oriented router.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">A bit of a slog, but perhaps checking with this list of supported devices warrants some attention --</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="https://openwrt.org/_media/toh_dump_tab_separated.zip">https://openwrt.org/_media/toh_dump_tab_separated.zip</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I have 2 of the ASUS RT-N66U also in play with OpenWRT, but they are even older models going back some 8-10 years I think with less flash & dram and slower CPU.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">If your guy wanna drive for 20-30 mins, someone in New Hamburg is selling 2 of the 68U + 1 of the 66U for 50 bucks. Absolutely dirt cheap. See --</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.kijiji.ca/v-computer-networking/kitchener-waterloo/2-asus-rt-ac68u-and-1-asus-rt-n66u-router/1671024838">https://www.kijiji.ca/v-computer-networking/kitchener-waterloo/2-asus-rt-ac68u-and-1-asus-rt-n66u-router/1671024838</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">FWIW.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Another really good one that 2 of my local siblings use is the Netgear R7600 AC2600 beastie. I have a large-adjacent client using a fleet of them in a mesh too. Not cloud-y, all local. Zero failures, all running OpenWRT. Not sure if OpenWRT still supports it though. Tough to find tho'.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.netgear.com/home/wifi/routers/r7800/">https://www.netgear.com/home/wifi/routers/r7800/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">FWIW.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Ron S.<br><br></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 11:21 PM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">This is not for me but somebody who was asking in a different forum.<br>
This person has a Cisco router and is unhappy with it, so they want a<br>
new one and do not know what is good these days.<br>
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The router must support OpenWRT well.<br>
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Any suggestions? Tales of lived experience get precedence.<br>
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