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Cheap, OpenWrt compatible routers with WiFi 6?

I am looking for suggestions of cheap, OpenWrt compatible routers that may have Wifi 6, for future proofing. My idea was to use it as a main router, but also as a travel router so I can plug it whenever I travel somewhere else.

I also want to learn how to use OpenWrt (I have an old router at home to test it out, but it’s not ideal for everyday use since it’s 100Mbps and doesn’t have gigabit ports).

It’d be nice to have:

  • Wifi 6
  • OpenVPN or WireGuard support
  • Compatibility with OpenWrt
  • Ideally less than 60 EUR

A small form factor is also appreciated but not a requirement.

I checked the device tables and lists on the OpenWrt wiki, but it’s hard to decide. A beginner’s guide to the operating system recommended some routers but most of them are too expensive for my use case.

Currently, I’m leaning towards the GL iNet Opal (1200) but it doesn’t support OpenWrt, the other option is the BananaPi BPI-WIfi 6. What would be your suggestions?

different_base ,

ASUS RT-AX53U

openwrt.org/toh/asus/rt-ax53u

Lemmchen ,
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160 MHz 5GHz bandwidth not supported

How relevant is this?

xinayder OP ,

I guess Wifi 6 doesn’t work in 5GHz band?

axzxc1236 ,

I think that means the access point can only run at up to 80Mhz bandwidth, so not full bandwidth.

Cronzo ,

Any glinet routers will do the trick. They have overall good routers in a wide range of prices. Note that all of them have openwrt installed by default.

ColonelPanic ,

The BPI-WIFI6 is currently half price and good value for what you get imo. Not sure on true performance yet as I need to rewire my house but it’s way more reliable than any of my other routers at least.

vividspecter ,

Do you need 6Ghz as well? Because I don’t think there are any that OpenWRT supports yet.

The Flint 2 suggestion is reasonable, although the firmware situation is currently a bit problematic with the stock version using an out of date Openwrt version due to issues with the open source drivers. But it should get resolved in the long run.

popcorp ,

I have Dynalink DL-WRX36, running openwrt since day 0. Iirc it was 60 euro year ago. Everything works, wireguard too. No complaints. I believe there is openwrt stable build for it already, though I an still running snapshot as I am too lazy to update.

maxwellfire ,

Second this router! It had the fastest CPU and antenna vs price when I last looked. I run zerotier as a VPN on it an it works great. Plenty of ram and flash for packages too.

sunzu ,

I don't think you will get a good router VPN performance at 60bucks tbh

You need a cpu that can handle your desired bandwidth. If this is a critical functionality, you need to start there IMHO

xinayder OP ,

The VPN bandwidth doesn’t need to be that good, I was checking the GL iNet models and 200 Mbps on WireGuard is enough for me.

mfortini ,

Cudy WR3000 is around 49 EUR, sometimes down to 33.

xinayder OP ,

where?

Sims ,

There’s a cheap zbtlink openwrt wifi6 3000Mbps ‘z8101ax-d’ on AliE for around 50 $. (aliexpress.com/…/wholesale-zbtlink-openwrt.html?s…)

I don’t know how long, and haven’t tried the product, but maybe some here have tried it ?

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