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Is open source router firmware a huge upgrade from a functionality and security perspective over standard vendor-issue firmware? Migrating has always been on the todo list, but I fear just following a web how-to won't be enough, and a certain level of networking knowledge is required.
My needs are pretty basic: main network, guest network, and a method for work device isolation aka Windows containment (perhaps a VLAN is what I'm after).
@Tregetour @possiblylinux127 so that's the nice thing about open wrt is they have an x86 distro. So you can run on any old computer and get to know it and learn to love it as much as everybody else does.
I think once you've done it a few times it's not too scary. Then you can really enjoy the process it's like opening the same present over and over but it just keeps getting better.
Just seen your comment and I can deffo comment as to the security aspect of it.
I bought a Xiaomi AX3600 with the knowledge that I could flash OpenWRT on it, but before doing so and using the stock firmware I came across this with
apthaving its hash mismatched when downloading "only over ethernet" which usually infers someone is doing something bad on your networkhttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/72022569/cannot-find-fixes-to-apt-error-hash-sum-mismatch
This guy said they replaced their whole router and should really ping them to ask.
Suffice to say that "bug" went away when I flashed OpenWRT and someone should probably look into more detail why, that was happening....