Its like (actually literally) installing Linux on your router instead of its little corporate steal-your-data software. It allows your old router to have all kinds of modern features and full-blown control. My netgear orbi system was dying. I don’t know what the hell was happening to it, but everything was super slow and clunky and netgear quit supporting it a few years ago. I thought I was going to have to get a new expensive mesh router system. But instead the nerds here told me I could probably install OpenWRT on them and it turns out they were right. My router was one of an expansive list of routers that is compatible with it. It was tricky to install, but I used AI to guide me through it. And now my shit’s super snappy, fast, uses the latest security protocols. Turns out I can crank my radios up higher than normal and get really, really good coverage and really high speed all the time. It’s for real this one weird trick that tech companies don’t want you to know about.

Because of Lemmy: proton, GrapheneOS, pi hole, open wrt, nextcloud

Hard to get used to but worth trying. Neck beards are squawking that it’s abandonware now?