Everything with the "gamer aesthetic" looks beyond moronic. This won't change because children and manchildren will keep soichamping and buying them, and a lot of actual adults don't care about what their tech looks like.
That's not even a gamer router, that's the regular consumer one.
>LibreCMC does not support ac (Wi-Fi 5) or ax (Wi-Fi 6) due to a lack of free chipsets.
we have enough software warriors going muh freedom this muh freedom that, but that field is saturated and full of gay homosexuals anyway.
what this world needs is more capable HARDWARE engineers making open hardware, and less of this armchair GNU activism that gets nobody anywhere
Any good reasons to get some noname router with a Open source OS flashed?
Besides pissing of big tech and feds?
LibreCMC/OpenWRT support WPA3 encryption while stock firmware usually doesn't. Also possible to set up VPN server or DNS ad filtering, it has a packaging system similar to Linux distros.
Yes you definitely "need" more than 100Mbps on portable device.
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Let me guess, you use schizobsd.
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Dogshit gui
[...] >Wi-Fi 4 is all you need in home environment.
A common symptom of autism is the inability to understand others viewpoints.
You homosexuals still didn't tell me some REAL example where Wi-Fi 5 brings notable advantages over Wi-Fi 4 on a network with few devices, so tell me to prove you're not reddit homosexuals who get dopamine rush over nooombers. The only one could be less interference of Wi-Fi 5 with other APs in crowded environment, but since most APs today run on Wi-Fi 5/6, it shouldn't be an issue anymore.
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I live in a commiebox and couldn't scan a document over wifi at saturday. It did scan one document while using windows scan that allowed more time before timeout. Had to forfeith and reinstall with usb. Interference is real. Radio pollution is real. Cables are superior. You donneed advanced wifi unless living in countryside with a small family.
Hardware is a lot harder to get off the ground with, particularly firmware. Even if you get open firmware running on a baseband controller, getting it certified with the FCC is difficult, because they don’t want end users to be able to frick with equipment and shit up the airwaves.
It basically boils down to software dev being essentially free, and hardware dev, particularly if it’s RF related, being expensive and niche. Even in the commercial sector there’s only a few companies that make WiFi chips.
and? taking the easy path is a justification for not supplying a need? because that's what i'm reading.
sure, hardware is harder, like many of the important things in life. i am aware of that.
my point still stands, we need more hardware engineers and less armchair ideologists whose work is literally certifying for muh freedom like if it were some latina bawd certifying the cultural authenticity of cafeteria meals
Virtually unlimited amount of customizability.
As many port forwads, address reservations, firewall rules, subnetting, whatever, you name it.
You can load modules and packages just like you would in Linux, for things like QoS, USB teethering, VPNs, etc.
Router manufacturers have since improved their software with more features, but five years ago, a lot of these features were non-existent on most consumer routers.
Oh, and peace of mind the router's software doesn't have any (intentional?) backdoors.
In my opinion, a router with an open source operating system is the absolute minimum any self-respecting tech enthusiast should have for his home network.
>LibreCMC
Interesting. So it's basically libreboot but for routers? I had thought about the concerns of routers having proprietary firmware. The problem is there are like 5 supported devices:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreCMC#List_of_supported_hardware
And all of them are old. I guess if you wanted to go fully tinfoil you'd do this.
>LibreCMC does not support ac (Wi-Fi 5) or ax (Wi-Fi 6) due to a lack of free chipsets.
we have enough software warriors going muh freedom this muh freedom that, but that field is saturated and full of gay homosexuals anyway.
what this world needs is more capable HARDWARE engineers making open hardware, and less of this armchair GNU activism that gets nobody anywhere
I think OpenWRT has actually been doing something like this. No idea if it's going to be good or not, but you could take a look here:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-one-celebrating-20-years-of-openwrt/183684
Everything with the "gamer aesthetic" looks beyond moronic. This won't change because children and manchildren will keep soichamping and buying them, and a lot of actual adults don't care about what their tech looks like.
because normies aren't tech literate enough to setup 2 APs for their McMansion, so they have to put a shit load of antennas on the thing to try to give decent coverage to the whole house.
I think if you wanted an omnidirectional antenna arrangment, that's how you'd do it. If the individual antennas inside those plastic housings are configured for a narrower, more focused beam, you'd want more of them in order to cover all 360 degrees around the router. And most likely they are, as a narrow beam gives you a stronger signal when you have line of sight towards it. Hence the
This wifi router is so bad I never touched consumer-grade network gear ever since. A cheap enterprise router like an edgerouter-x and a cheap wireless AP will run circles around that garbage for half the price.
Wi-Fi 4 is all you need in home environment.
[...]
LibreCMC/OpenWRT support WPA3 encryption while stock firmware usually doesn't. Also possible to set up VPN server or DNS ad filtering, it has a packaging system similar to Linux distros.
>Wi-Fi 4 is all you need in home environment.
A common symptom of autism is the inability to understand others viewpoints.
I predict that will be replaced with wifi that have 64 antennas with RGB lights that physically rotate around to keep baby occupied when their game is lagging. It will integrate with Alexa, because. It will also be ADVANCED AI ENHANCED and will use 4500 watts.
they need to summon demons to carry the messages to your computers
you need a better demon to move it faster, so it takes a more ornate router to summon it
the absolute state of IQfy
Idk, but I got one like that and over the past few years every single one of those sticks have been broken off by accident when it falls or is moved.
It had zero effect on its functionality or speed.
The antennas do nothing.
Gayming routers for homosexuals. Just use a router supported by LibreCMC.
I usually flash dd-wrt on routers.
That's not even a gamer router, that's the regular consumer one.
>LibreCMC
Cool, it currently doesn't support my router running OpenWRT, but if it did, any reasons I should (not) change?
No proprietary firmware, otherwise it's same like OpenWRT. If your router doesn't support it, probably it never will.
Sweet, their supported devices can double as a safe buying list, thanks.
>LibreCMC does not support ac (Wi-Fi 5) or ax (Wi-Fi 6) due to a lack of free chipsets.
we have enough software warriors going muh freedom this muh freedom that, but that field is saturated and full of gay homosexuals anyway.
what this world needs is more capable HARDWARE engineers making open hardware, and less of this armchair GNU activism that gets nobody anywhere
Wi-Fi 4 is all you need in home environment.
LibreCMC/OpenWRT support WPA3 encryption while stock firmware usually doesn't. Also possible to set up VPN server or DNS ad filtering, it has a packaging system similar to Linux distros.
not if you need speeds faster than 100mbps
Yes you definitely "need" more than 100Mbps on portable device.
Let me guess, you use schizobsd.
You homosexuals still didn't tell me some REAL example where Wi-Fi 5 brings notable advantages over Wi-Fi 4 on a network with few devices, so tell me to prove you're not reddit homosexuals who get dopamine rush over nooombers. The only one could be less interference of Wi-Fi 5 with other APs in crowded environment, but since most APs today run on Wi-Fi 5/6, it shouldn't be an issue anymore.
I live in a commiebox and couldn't scan a document over wifi at saturday. It did scan one document while using windows scan that allowed more time before timeout. Had to forfeith and reinstall with usb. Interference is real. Radio pollution is real. Cables are superior. You donneed advanced wifi unless living in countryside with a small family.
Hardware is a lot harder to get off the ground with, particularly firmware. Even if you get open firmware running on a baseband controller, getting it certified with the FCC is difficult, because they don’t want end users to be able to frick with equipment and shit up the airwaves.
It basically boils down to software dev being essentially free, and hardware dev, particularly if it’s RF related, being expensive and niche. Even in the commercial sector there’s only a few companies that make WiFi chips.
>getting it certified with the FCC
Not my problem
it is when you have to buy from companies that need to
and? taking the easy path is a justification for not supplying a need? because that's what i'm reading.
sure, hardware is harder, like many of the important things in life. i am aware of that.
my point still stands, we need more hardware engineers and less armchair ideologists whose work is literally certifying for muh freedom like if it were some latina bawd certifying the cultural authenticity of cafeteria meals
Any good reasons to get some noname router with a Open source OS flashed?
Besides pissing of big tech and feds?
>LibreCMC.
>If the device has a 802.11ac wifi chipset, the libreCMC project can't support these devices
so you can have trash speeds
Virtually unlimited amount of customizability.
As many port forwads, address reservations, firewall rules, subnetting, whatever, you name it.
You can load modules and packages just like you would in Linux, for things like QoS, USB teethering, VPNs, etc.
Router manufacturers have since improved their software with more features, but five years ago, a lot of these features were non-existent on most consumer routers.
Oh, and peace of mind the router's software doesn't have any (intentional?) backdoors.
In my opinion, a router with an open source operating system is the absolute minimum any self-respecting tech enthusiast should have for his home network.
i like to use iptables on openwrt to firewall windows machines and tvs/phones around the house
>LibreCMC
Interesting. So it's basically libreboot but for routers? I had thought about the concerns of routers having proprietary firmware. The problem is there are like 5 supported devices:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreCMC#List_of_supported_hardware
And all of them are old. I guess if you wanted to go fully tinfoil you'd do this.
I think OpenWRT has actually been doing something like this. No idea if it's going to be good or not, but you could take a look here:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-one-celebrating-20-years-of-openwrt/183684
what's the performance like
I think it looks cool
thats cos your a fricking reject. it looks like a fricking spaceship built by an 8 year old.
Everything with the "gamer aesthetic" looks beyond moronic. This won't change because children and manchildren will keep soichamping and buying them, and a lot of actual adults don't care about what their tech looks like.
>soichamping
What is this, I'm not up on my zoomerspeak
because normies aren't tech literate enough to setup 2 APs for their McMansion, so they have to put a shit load of antennas on the thing to try to give decent coverage to the whole house.
That design is to vortex funnel the wifi signal into the central collector. Simple, yet effective design.
mine has wifi 6 and doesnt look that ugly
it is an amaZOG product though
they're trying to copy 5g cell towers.
I think if you wanted an omnidirectional antenna arrangment, that's how you'd do it. If the individual antennas inside those plastic housings are configured for a narrower, more focused beam, you'd want more of them in order to cover all 360 degrees around the router. And most likely they are, as a narrow beam gives you a stronger signal when you have line of sight towards it. Hence the
not my problem
install openwrt
i have this and it's a piece of shit, i thought it would be like a newer WRT54GL but holy frick the wifi is so shit
This wifi router is so bad I never touched consumer-grade network gear ever since. A cheap enterprise router like an edgerouter-x and a cheap wireless AP will run circles around that garbage for half the price.
heard this one has a lot of problems with wifi on openwrt
>turn router upside down
>it doesn't scuttle away
that's how you know it's shit
Opinion on MikroTik routers?
Dogshit gui
>Wi-Fi 4 is all you need in home environment.
A common symptom of autism is the inability to understand others viewpoints.
I predict that will be replaced with wifi that have 64 antennas with RGB lights that physically rotate around to keep baby occupied when their game is lagging. It will integrate with Alexa, because. It will also be ADVANCED AI ENHANCED and will use 4500 watts.
they need to summon demons to carry the messages to your computers
you need a better demon to move it faster, so it takes a more ornate router to summon it
the absolute state of IQfy
gotta put the MIMO-antennas somehwere, moron
I am older than you. And thay does not look that moronic. It just have multiple antennas for multiple persons
It's simple. It has hardly changed in the past decade and a half. It's perfect.
Idk, but I got one like that and over the past few years every single one of those sticks have been broken off by accident when it falls or is moved.
It had zero effect on its functionality or speed.
The antennas do nothing.
Beamforming antenna.
>Star of David swastika
What did they mean by that?