muaveri@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years agoAlternative router firmware: what are DD-WRT, OpenWrt, Tomato & ASUSwrt Merlinbinaryfork.comexternal-linkmessage-square43linkfedilinkarrow-up1199arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1195arrow-down1external-linkAlternative router firmware: what are DD-WRT, OpenWrt, Tomato & ASUSwrt Merlinbinaryfork.commuaveri@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square43linkfedilinkfile-text
Just like the operating system on your computer & cell phone, you can change the software running on your router.
minus-squareMolecular0079@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·3 years agoEver since I found out my old Netgear R7800 didn’t have a functional IPv6 firewall, I’ve been riding happily on the OpenWrt train. Now I absolutely refuse to buy routers that I can’t flash with OpenWrt.
Ever since I found out my old Netgear R7800 didn’t have a functional IPv6 firewall, I’ve been riding happily on the OpenWrt train. Now I absolutely refuse to buy routers that I can’t flash with OpenWrt.