I got my new router working.
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Did you buy a router with openWRT reinstalled or flash one yourself?
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I gave up on complicated Wi-Fi passwords. Who am I keeping out? To connect they'd need to be in or right next to my house anyway.
️The admin password on the router is intense though.
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Good network infrastructure at home always gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling. The blinkenlights, the five bars of 5GHz Wifi even in the back of the garden, the dashboard showing all the devices connected to the network chugging along, it's just, hmm, I find it very satisfying.
Also, it doubles as a presence detection for people which proves useful in home automation.
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I'm not sure it can be considered dull if half the people here got an erection reading"OpenWRT".
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It's 2025 and I'm still holding IPv6 workshops for otherwise very competent people. So... No, not common enough yet.
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hunter2.
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Kids these days with their wireless trim routers
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It's more dangerous for them to connect to me....
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I've found that complicated passwords plus using WPS for such devices are my most usable compromise.
Works with OpenWRT with some extra steps: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/basic#wps_options
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dullsters.net should be
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A few additional years in IT should dampen that down to a slight fizzing sensation in the general area.
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Sounds like a good day to me. How do you like it?
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I run OPNsense and it's another excellent option.
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My Wi-Fi password is a simple sentence that’s funny. It’s long enough (and has spaces and ‘) so not easily cracked, but very easy for friends.
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Openwrt router + 4 Wi-Fi access point wired to a gig-e switch
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GiveMeADollar
It's ready to remember, and occasionally you get a dollar
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Same! Just set it up for the first time yesterday.
Configuration options are a little overwhelming, but with enough websleuthing I got everything where I want it.
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Excellent so far. It took me a while to set up, I had to start over from scratch once. They claim it is "brick proof" and I can bear witness. Performance, as I said, is excellent.
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I've always thought that kind of router seems cool, but I am more of a portable circular saw kevel woodworker.
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It's not even reinstalled, it's purpose built for it: https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one
