Test posting with table and wiki:
Please check it out and report back if that would be a way to go.
The description within the table is meaningless if people dont provide some hardware info like flash/ram etc. I think that should be a must in this case. Because someone just posted there with "It's the one I have right now" description. Maybe put some rules there @tmomas.
Knowing the CPU or something about how powerful the device is would be very helpful. This could be a slippery slope of asking for more and more features, then you're just back to the TOH. Maybe likes or votes connected to the TOH somehow? Reset it yearly?
It would also be interesting to see some stats on which firmwares are being downloaded, which would also suggest which routers are currently popular, but wouldn't address what's currently available, price, features, etc.
Just add a price range to the current TOH. need to normalise currency to ease comparision
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Maybe a rolling download count for each of, past month, past 6 months, past year
https://distrowatch.com/ does something similar for most popular linux distros in the sidebar.
I don't think currency is beneficial.
maybe just a 3 or 4 level price rating from Bronze for economical devices to Gold for Expensive
How does exchanging euro/dollar/shekels for colours help? My bronze is going to be different from someone earning mega pounds/roubles.
Defining a currency to colour exchange rate is just going to start another 100+ reply forum argument.
I'd really like to see some kind of user ratings.
To address the lack of room in the forum topic "wiki" format perhaps we could do both 1 and 4? Not everyone will add their "favorite device" to the wiki page but I think anything particularly good will get added. With a pure wiki page only we would miss discussion posts which can be really helpful.
Does the price really matter, if it is Bronze then you know straightaway that is the least expensive of the lot. If when you go shopping you discover that your budget allows for more you can go back and search higher price rating.
It is all relative in the end, it also helps when your buying used devices, as a device that was expensive new is likely to still be more expensive than it peers when used.
Can an enhanced Amazon banner be used? I'd love to know the current price of the router. Even if nobody buys from Amazon it would give people a rough idea what to expect to pay, at least relative to the other routers. And if anybody bus with an affiliate link a few pennies could make it back to the project to pay for hosting, etc.
Not much help when a router is discontinued, and you will get targeted ads everywhere you go afterwards.
I'd love recommendations for a router with roughly similar price ($15 used on eBay) and specs (1Ghz, 128M/128M, dual band N, USB) as the Linksys Cisco EA4500, but without that router's overheating and wifi instability problems
Netgear r6100 comes up on ebay cheap from time to time. It has Ethernet 100M. Depending on your internet speed it may not be a problem.
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Recently I setup router with Luci, IPsec (Strongswan) and some other services basing on RouterBoard RB941-2nD. It is cheap (about 20$) device with 16MB flash storage and 32MB RAM build on solid ar71xx platform. It works very well for me, I can recommend this device.
32MB RAM is borderline and can not really be recommended for future use.
https://openwrt.org/supported_devices/432_warning
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My favorite brand is TP Link. I don't know if it's just me but they appear to have most support for OpenWRT/LEDE. Availability is also a factor, I can order them from amazon and they arrive within 2 days.
841ND: It was the cheapest openwrt supported router. But FW size got bigger off late, so this has moved to 'tiny' builds. Not very useful anymore if you are adding any custom packages.
1043ND: Most widely available openwrt router with 8 MB flash + 64MB RAM.
Archer C60: My latest favorite. The cheapest 1350M dual band router which supports openwrt. It has same HW spec as 1043ND (except for only 100M ports, somewhat a bummer). Both bands WiFi has been pretty stable.. hopefully the known legacy WiFi issues with 1043ND are fixed in this.
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T-mobile TM-AC1900 = Asus RT-AC68U
Routinely found for $50 USD on eBay and Amazon (new or refurb)
unfortunately support for rt-ac68u is very bad on openwart/lede due to broadcom's closed source drivers so NOGO
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Still can't decide between the GL.iNet MT-300A, WNDR-3800, and the tired-but-true Airlink AR-670W. Probably the GL.iNet, because although it's a 2011 router in 2018, the devs are completely OS and designed it around OWRT/LEDE. Thanks, @alzhao.
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hello.
few weeks ago I bought used Archer C2 v1 (cca 20$) for his giga ports and 5ghz radio, but... its not fun with him and really I don't have any use for 5ghz ...so I ordered good classic wr1043nd v2 (cca 15$) ...yaaa!... well and now it needs only 18.06 final ; ) ps. my all-time favorite is wr841n v9 (cca 10$)