its a little controverial opinion

Have you ever wondered why its so popular ? yes, its because they heavily sponsor youtubers and other social media influencers with free "beta" products. They say they provide samples for beta testing, however what they are really looking for are youtubers and influencers who can promote their stuff.

Their subreddit says its an "unofficial" subreddit however I found out the hard way that criticising their marketing tactics and revealing their inefficient hardware and suggesting some of its competitor hardware especially like (pifi and flashedrouter, i have no affiliation with those) resulted in me getting banned (can't reply or make threads) from their "unofficial subreddit". proof

I had always wondered why there are no critical reviews of its products anywhere. It can't be that a product has no flaws. Why isn't anybody talking or even discussing. and when I started talking then I got banned.

It's a really sad state of affair where openwrt project which is supported by Software Freedom Conservancy who's mission is to promote ethical, right to repair, improve and reinstall software. What irks me is when I see people in opensource community suggesting to other folks to buy one of their routers instead of learning how to use openwrt. Yes it can be a little daunting but its very rewarding.

You can save all of that money you would have spent on glinet routers OR donate it to openwrt donate which will help the cause.

Interestingly enough, not even AI is able to configure OpenWRT to my ideal setup (which I can do with the stock firmwares of the likes of Cudy/Gl.iNet, I was just trying if going pure OpenWRT would be useful).

1. I went to OpenWRT Firmware Selector, chose the router image (Cudy TR3000 V1) and added some packages the AI recommended for USB tethering and so on.

2. Added a script from the same AI to setup things

3. Things keeps failing, first it was the IPv4 stack not working, then it's the USB Tethering mode not working...

What I want to achieve

1. The router has up to 3 WAN interfaces, in this order of preference: Wan Ethernet (fiber), Repeater mode (the router connects to a hotel network for example), and Tethering mode (getting internet from iPhone/Android/modem via USB, for example using a Huawei E5783b LTE modem)

2. Then, the router would have Tailscale running at all times, as to access my remote network which has the 192.168.1.0/24 route published in the tailnet. So you can access 192.168.1.10 for example, always whereever you are.

3. Also, the router would have 2 different Wireguard client configs, with the user being able of choosing when to activate one or another, and if it applies to all router clients or only some of them.

And... that's all I think. The fiber is up to 1Gbps, and the LTE is about 5-30Mbps.

I'm thinking about just going back to the Cudy stock firmware, but I wanted to maybe ask other people and maybe try to "learn" and get it right for once, if possible.

Obviously, I don't know any configs like SQM, offloading... which the AI kept getting enabled/disabled/modified all the time, because also for whatever reason, the router seems to work at faster speeds and stable with the stock firmware based on OWRT 21, than with my compilated version.

Thanks.

Is there some similar package that offer similar functionality ?

Title. I have had a great experience with OpenWRT on my Archer C7 and A7, I'm wondering what the limitation that prevents OpenWRT from being installed on the AX1500 is. Seems like there's other Wifi 6 devices that are supported. Is it just that nobody has compiled binaries yet?

i know ppl are gonna flame me here, years ago yes i love it openwrt to going deep with a better routing solution, those linksys were the ones that i tested opened do some hobbist thing to have a much better router in my home. But then i found mikrotik and i was amazed finally a proper router that has soo much functionality, that i dont need to do workarounds with changing firmwares or bootloading stuff into other brands.

I've installed and used it in the past for personal/small-scale projects (home lab, testing scenarios, etc.), but never considered it for production in office or enterprise setups.

In my opinion, OpenWrt still feels like a trial-and-error platform where things may require tweaks and manual workarounds. It's very flexible, yes, but that same flexibility means things can break or misbehave if you're not deep into how it all works under the hood.

Also, unlike RouterOS or other enterprise-grade solutions, there's no official support line or company-backed SLA. Everything depends on the community, forums, and documentation, which may vary in quality or depth depending on your issue.

Another key point is the lack of formal certification or widely recognized "OpenWrt experts." Most people using OpenWrt are hobbyists, enthusiasts, or network devs that know how to build things themselves — but that’s not always what you want in a business environment where stability, quick support, and accountability are key.

RouterOS, on the other hand, might have a learning curve, but it's battle-tested for years in enterprise deployments. The level of integration with MikroTik hardware, the performance tuning, and the availability of professional training (MTCNA, MTCRE, etc.) are huge pluses in those scenarios.

If you want a lab or highly custom setup? OpenWrt is great.

If you want to plug it in, configure it, and not touch it unless it's maintenance day? RouterOS shines there.

but am i wrong? since this is subreddit focused on openwrt i want to know if im right or not

So I’ve got a nether r8000 router I decided to perform a firmware update on. It was running 22.something. I noticed very high packet loss (25% range) mostly affecting upstream (but not for ipv6 which seemed much more fine). Then I noticed the three wireless radios constantly go dark, and I cannot get a stable WiFi signal because of it. Maybe I should just downgrade? What would be a safe version to use or are there any recommendations? Thanks.

It's very easy. Very simple. Put the installed firmware version *on the main screen* so the person looking at it does not have to do anything to find it.

Put it right up at the top, like DD-WRT does. Soon as you enter its IP address in a browser, version number at the upper right. Don't even need to enter the login and password.

Another place to prominently put the version number is when something makes it start in recovery mode and it's insisting the way to fix it is to update the firmware. Put it right there in the middle of the screen in BIG BOLD type, along with a note to make sure the version you download is the same or newer.

And lastly, make certain your Table Of Hardware is up to date on the firmware versions. I found somewhere a mention by somebody they were creating their own ToH page that would automatically have the latest firmwares because of how often the official ToH was outdated.

Hiding the firmware version, insisting that updating the firmware will fix it, then having one revision older than the latest firmware on the website people may land on when googling where to get openwrt for their router, that's likely resulted in many brickings.

I'm a European player, on a 1Gb fiber connection connected to my PC via Ethernet. 10 ms ping, 0.5 jitter unloaded. I've tried changing ISPs, using GPNs, VPNs, Warp, and fully optimizing Windows 10/11 through regedit and gpedit, but nothing seems to change how my matches feel.

In some matches, I get absolutely melted. In others, everyone feels like a brand-new account. Then there are games that start out normal, but suddenly everyone plays like trash and I can easily end up with a 5 KD in Battlefield, for example.

I'd like to know if switching to OpenWrt would fix this for me...

I've been using openwrt on a router for several years now. I'm in the market for a new router and I'm wondering if I should install OpenWrt on it?

I'm not technically savvy at all, so I'm not going to be using any advanced features, I'm just using it as a basic router/access point.

My main motivation has been privacy and using as much open source software as I possibly can.

Any thoughts/feedback?

I'm using openwrt router with tailscale exit mode on. Will it detect my home ip address or my mobile isp IP when I am away?

I have been battling with this for almost a decade since Call of Duty WW2

I have been using many routers from Netduma, Asus, Mikrotik and the recent one, MT-6000 (Flint2) and now I have been using Openwrt for 1 year+ and it is the best firmware ever.

Now that before people tell me to “git gud”, I think I am those above average FPS gamers. I have over 3.5 KD in any Cod, Battlefield and other FPS games

For my network information. I use flint 2 router with 24.10.5 latest stable Openwrt vanilla firmware. I have 600/600 mbps speed. My ISP is AIS and my location is Thailand connecting to Singapore and sometimes Hongkong server with ping of 28-55 depends on location

People and many official documents including ChatGPT, Gemini always say CAKE is the best. I mean, yeah it got me A+ in bufferbloat test. But in game, something is off

I mean in some gunfights, I see enemy, I shoot an enemy, hit detection was off, delay and it doesn’t register where I aim at. Ended up shoot first die first. But in some matches, hit detection is very good.

I have tried luci sqm, qosify, dscp classified, and qosmate

They all have the same problems

I think my hardware should be able to shape 500-600 mbps without bottleneck. So what gives?

Anyone would like to share your gaming experience with openwrt? What worked for you?

After many hours of research I have decided to purchase the gl.iNet-mt6000 router and use it with openwrt. It looks perfect! Wifi6. Fast. Runs WireGuard at 900mb. Seems easy to upgrade. And then I realize: The company is based in Hong Kong and the routers manufactured in mainland China.

I would never buy a Chinese cellphone. Many governments have banned Chinese tech infrastructure in general.

Should I be concerned about a Chinese router? How come these aspects are never discussed when routers re recommended in openwrt fora, where many users are very privacy and security focused?

PS: No comments from Chinese trolls please!

When will OpenWrt 21.02 get released. Currently, I am using 21.02 RC3 with my backup router. Once it gets released then I'll install it on my primary router.

Full disclosure: this is my project. It scans a network, works out what each device actually is (brand and model from protocol fingerprints, not just the MAC vendor), and keeps an inventory with a change history. One Go binary, SQLite on disk, nothing else to install.

0.6.0 is the release where it can live on the router:

• There are now .ipk and .apk packages alongside the plain tarball, for both the scanner and the remote agents, so it installs with whatever package manager your firmware ships.

• The installer handles the annoying parts for you: derives the subnet from uci, turns on the router-resident passive sources, fixes ICMP permissions.

• Settings live on a LuCI page and first-run setup happens in the browser. On the test router I didn't open SSH once.

• Running on the gateway turned out to be the interesting bit. It sees DHCP leases, WiFi clients and DNS queries, so devices that answer no probes at all still get identified. My robot vacuum finally has a name instead of a bare IP.

• There's a demo mode that seeds a fake network, if you want a look before pointing it at yours.

What isn't there yet: agents don't do SNMPv3, and the container image is the unprivileged build, so LLDP/CDP raw frames and the eBPF observer are stubs in it. You have to build the privileged variant for those.

AGPL-3.0, with a commercial licence if you need one.

https://github.com/Mi-Bee-Studio/MiBeeSteward

I know DDWRT and Open WRT. Both seem kind of dead to me because i cant find any of the mainstream routers having ddwrt and openwrt support.

Are there other open source firmwares like openwrt?

I bought a wifi 6 router recently and its one of the bad ones with no open source support. My current wifi rounter is very old and i needed something proper that wasnt expensive. Reviews praised it.

I've been working on an Android app for managing OpenWrt routers from a phone, and I wanted to share it here and get some feedback from the community.

LuCI works really well, especially on a desktop, but I've found that some quick tasks can be a little inconvenient from a phone—checking bandwidth, seeing connected devices, checking system resources, toggling guest Wi-Fi, etc.

So I built Yet Another LuCI App, an Android companion app built with Flutter and Material 3.

The app is 100% ad-free. There are no cloud servers or analytics tracking involved. Router communication happens directly between the app and the router using OpenWrt's RPC endpoints, and credentials remain stored on the device.

What it currently supports

• Real-time system monitoring — CPU, RAM, Swap, disk usage, and live Rx/Tx bandwidth graphs.

• Connected devices — Combines DHCP leases, ARP entries, and active wireless stations into a single view, including IPv4/IPv6 addresses, vendor information, and Wi-Fi band indicators.

• Guest Wi-Fi — Create isolated guest networks and generate a Wi-Fi QR code for connecting devices.

• Parental controls & profiles — Group devices into profiles with scheduled access and domain blocking.

• OPKG + APK support — Automatically handles the traditional opkg package manager used by older OpenWrt releases and the newer apk package manager.

• Services & VPNs — Manage procd services and monitor interfaces for WireGuard, OpenVPN, Tailscale, and ZeroTier. Root cron jobs can also be edited.

• Sysupgrade backups — Validates backup archive headers and gzip data before uploading them to the router.

I also tried to make potentially powerfull operations a little harder to mess up:

• Self-device protection — Detects the phone's active IP/MAC address to help prevent accidentally blocking the device you're currently using.

• UCI rollback — If an RPC operation fails during a configuration change, the app attempts to revert the affected UCI changes.

Links

Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nightcode.luci

GitHub:
https://github.com/nightcodex7/yala

I'm still actively working on it, so I'd particularly appreciate feedback from people who actually use OpenWrt.

If you try it, let me know what works, what doesn't, or which LuCI functionality you'd most like to see added.

PS: Update (September 2026) The licensing concern raised here has been fully addressed.

All 16 files from the original fork commit have been completely rewritten from scratch in a clean-room fashion — no GPL source code from luci-mobile remains in the codebase. The full remediation record, including what was rewritten and verification results, is documented in LICENSE_CHANGE.md.

Special thanks to cogwheel0 for the original luci-mobile concept and for raising this publicly — it pushed the project to be legally cleaner than it otherwise would have been.

PS: Update (v2.0.0 & Full GPLv3 Compliance)

I wanted to follow up here and address the concerns raised in the comments directly. I handled the initial licensing situation and my earlier responses poorly, and I apologize for that. Trying to debate license changes or claim rewrites instead of simply embracing GPL was the wrong move.

I took the community's feedback to heart and made things right:

1. **Proper GPLv3 Licensing & Attribution**: The project is now licensed 100% under GNU GPLv3 as a direct fork of `cogwheel0/luci-mobile`. Upstream credit and dual attribution to cogwheel0 have been properly set in the repository, LICENSE file, and README.

2. **Zero Paid Features / 100% Free**: To clear up some misunderstandings in the comments: the app has never had any paid features or paywalls, and it never will. Any optional donation links and payment endpoints have been completely removed from both the app and the codebase. There are no ads, no trackers, and no monetization whatsoever.

3. **Upstream Sync & v2.0.0 Release**: The codebase has been re-synced with upstream v1.2.1 alongside several fixes (resolved back-button app closing/black screen issues, fixed static DHCP lease deletion on OpenWrt RPC, restricted the UI palette strictly to Material You and Amber.

The project repository and community release are available on GitHub:

- Repository: https://github.com/nightcodex7/yala

- Release (v2.0.0): https://github.com/nightcodex7/yala/releases/tag/v2.0.0%2B220

Thanks to everyone who held me accountable and pointed me in the right direction.

What's the status of this? I have successfully manually upgraded, but on official sites it's still not released and there's no changelog. Attended sysupgrade doesn't see it when checking for update.

I tried apk updateand didn't work, whereas opkg update is still working fine.

I have successfully installed and used on my line openwrt 18.06.04 with nmrpflash on Netgear R6100 and on Netgear R6220.

So, I haven’t made any changes to the standard openwrt settings apart from turn wireless on.

With tp link (c7) stock firmware I was getting 1gbs on a speed test, wired. Post flash, max 200mbps check at different times and during the night.

5ghz went from 600mbps to 15!!