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Open source router firmware project OpenWrt ships its own entirely repairable hardware
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this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2024
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What's the point of having 1G on WAN and 2.5G on LAN? Traffic won't hit the LAN port until it's routed to the Internet, yet the WAN port is the bottleneck.
Edit: Seems like I switch up the port speed but my point still holds as the bittleneck still exist.
Tranfering between devices on the LAN.
Edit: Wait, no, it's the other way around. 2.5 on WAN, and just a single 1GB LAN port. That absolutely doesn't make sense.
This is a common setup for WiFi routers, where the idea is that most traffic will be on WiFi.
It's default 2.5G WAN and 1G LAN. It also has wifi to use some of that bandwidth.
https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one
Local NAS, local security cameras, in-house streaming, LAN multiplayer, local torrent-like data sharing (FYI, Windows Update and more uses the local network to share update between computers by default, so it gets downloaded once and then shared internally)
Then use a switch ..
Maybe it can be used as a router on a stick.
That's the only use I can think of but I don't know if OpenWRT support VLAN cuz I never used it directly.
Does it have enough power to handle routing (not just switching) 2.5Gb + 2.5Gb + whatever the WiFi can support? My guess is it cannot and it would have pushed the price up signifcantly to do so.
Does seem counter intuitive to me as this is squarely aimed at enthusiasts who would like to min max their home network.
Could it help with internal tasks, like self-hosted services or a business that transfers files around a lot?