I have many nerdy friends who have been Linux users for ages. But most of them don’t know such a thing as Openwrt exists or have never bothered to give it a try. It’s a very fun piece of software to play with and can be extremely useful for routing traffic. Wondering why it isn’t more popular/widely used.

  • mFat@lemdro.idOPEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    Best thing to do is to get a fanless mini PC with multiple ethernet ports and hook up a decent access point to one of those ports.

    • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
      31·
      7 months ago

      Then you’re still looking at a mess of devices and a relatively power hungry system plus you still have your ISPs modem

      I need my Internet for work, so I just replaced my ISPs modem with a FritzBox, which is not ideal, but serves me well, gets updates for quite a while and works pretty much always.

        • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
          1·
          7 months ago

          Or, I keep using my Fritzbox, which is a single device and does everything I want.

          As far as I know, there is no cable modem/router integrated device.

          • umbrella@lemmy.ml
            1·
            7 months ago

            the option i suggested is also a single device.

            most commercial routers can run openwrt. you dont need a specialized device.

              • umbrella@lemmy.ml
                1·
                7 months ago

                thats something you would have to discuss with your cable company, and they would probably tell you to fuck right off.

                i wouldnt recommend you to mess with that anyway if you dont want to have a variety of problems.