Re: Re: Recommendations on wifi routers
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Amessyroom on Mon Jul 15 2024 06:23 pm

Amessyroom wrote to All <=-

Current price is $179, but going to wait until midnight to see if it goes lower durin prime days. But I'm open to other suggestions in this price range and available on amazon, so I can get it in a few days.

Good point about Prime day. I'm looking for an AX3200 router to run
OpenWRT on, might be some worthwhile routers on sale during Prime Day.

I'm a HUGE amazon shopper. prime day is bullshit. usually they raise the prices before prime and drop it. there are exceptions.

However, amazon is not making the numbers that it used to make. people are not spending as much as they were in the last 3 years. it's possible there will be some deals. probably in houseware and not electronics

a good browser addon for tracking amazon prices is keepa.
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MRO wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Good point about Prime day. I'm looking for an AX3200 router to run
OpenWRT on, might be some worthwhile routers on sale during Prime Day.

I'm a HUGE amazon shopper. prime day is bullshit. usually they raise
the prices before prime and drop it. there are exceptions.

The reality is that I buy most of my routers at thrift shops for $5-$10
and throw OpenWRT or DD-WRT on them. The combination of an appliance
router and WRT firmware makes for a capable little router.

I have a Netgear R6400 and R8000 now, but I'm looking to get higher
speed internet service and want something with a little more processing
power to handle it.




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Re: Re: Recommendations on wifi routers
By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Tue Jul 16 2024 07:23 am

I'm a HUGE amazon shopper. prime day is bullshit. usually they raise the prices before prime and drop it. there are exceptions.

The reality is that I buy most of my routers at thrift shops for $5-$10
and throw OpenWRT or DD-WRT on them. The combination of an appliance
router and WRT firmware makes for a capable little router.

okay that's a good way to get failing hardware.
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Re: Re: Recommendations on wifi routers
By: MRO to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Jul 15 2024 09:20 pm

I'm a HUGE amazon shopper. prime day is bullshit. usually they raise the prices before prime and drop it. there are exceptions.

Although I'm all for supproting local businesses, I'm also a big Amazon shopper. I have a Prime memebrship mainly for the free 2-day shipping; I rarely watch content on Amazon's Prime streaming service.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Recommendations on wifi routers
By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Tue Jul 16 2024 07:23 am

The reality is that I buy most of my routers at thrift shops for $5-$10 and throw OpenWRT or DD-WRT on them. The combination of an appliance router and WRT firmware makes for a capable little router.

That's true. I currently have a router that I put DD-WRT on, and it's very capable. A couple years ago, I also found out that DD-WRT lets you configure a VPN so that the router itself can connect to a VPN, and I thought that was cool.

I had also used Tomato (firmware) with my previous router, and I thought that was a pretty good router firmware too.

Nightfox

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