Weirdly broken Wi-Fi access points

Re:Weirdly broken Wi-Fi access points by captn3m0 on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @06:04AM (#12486727)

Is there any specific reason why consumer grade router companies (like D-Link) drop their own OS entirely and shift to a open-source alternative? That should bring down development costs somewhat I'm guessing and force them to make different boards compatible.

Not a hardware guy, but I've looked at D-Link firmware code in the past, and it is just utterly shoddy. Just making the hardware and making sure it is compatible with some router-os should be simpler. (Essentially what happens in the mobile/laptop industry with android/windows).

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Re:Weirdly broken Wi-Fi access points by chadgeidel on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @11:42AM (#12489268)

Maybe not exactly what you want, but Netgear has a fairly wide range of routers with open source firmware support and have a dedicated site [1] for that. I've had good luck with the previous 2 Netgear routers (WNR3500 and WNDR3700) and will probably buy another one again in the future.

[1] https://www.myopenrouter.com/

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