Also, given the recent Extra Stupidity in the United States with regard to, of all things, consumer-grade routers, I thought it was time to put money towards a better option.

Behold! An #OpenWRT One router, freshly arrived yesterday evening. I'll power it up and kick the tires soon*.

* Values of soon may vary.

I had read good reviews about the #GL-iNet #routers so I purchased one of their products around 18 months ago. One of my main motivations was supporting, at some level, #OpenWrt and including tools like #AdGuardHome and #Wireguard.

But to be honest, it all has been a bit disappointing.

AdGuardHome never worked very well. Apart from being slow, the service would frequently freeze (e.g. whenever I updated the custom filter) and I had to manually restart it.

In addition, the system stack was quite messy and difficult to make sense of. For example, the #DNS service #Dnsmasq could be managed directly or via Openwrt, sometimes creating unintended problems.

Anyway, the router decided to implode after a firmware upgrade, which is quite underwhelming. I tried a few things like reflashing Uboot, factory reset, etc. before deciding to just toss it away and get another one, from a different brand.

How to turn anything into a router https://nbailey.ca/post/router/

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Neu im Blog: Erfahrungsbericht: Reise-Router GL.iNet GL-A1300 mit OpenWrt URL: https://www.my-it-brain.de/wordpress/erfahrungsbericht-reise-router-gl-inet-gl-a1300-mit-openwrt/

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