List of 8000 security vulnerabilities in 1200 Wi-Fi routers

Re:List of 8000 security vulnerabilities in 1200 Wi-Fi routers by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @03:46PM (#29246165)

I tried OpenWRT a few years ago on my WRT3200acm and the wireless quality was severely lacking. Has a lot changed since then? Do you think it's worth giving another go?

It hasn't been updated since Jan of 2020 but I also don't see any vulns listed for it.

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Re:List of 8000 security vulnerabilities in 1200 Wi-Fi routers by aetherspawn on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @07:15PM (#29247963)

I tried OpenWRT on my D-Link router and yeah it was super flaky, dropping the WiFi for around a minute at random times throughout the day.

The web interface was much better than stock firmware though.

But I have recently settled for the tp-link Archer AX50 which is very stable and comes with a great web interface, plenty of advanced features.

Not tried OpenWRT on the latter.

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Re:List of 8000 security vulnerabilities in 1200 Wi-Fi routers by wtallis on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @04:01PM (#29246302)

> It hasn't been updated since Jan of 2020 but I also don't see any vulns listed for it.

Are you referring to the manufacturer's firmware or OpenWRT? The latter's last release was three weeks ago.

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Re:List of 8000 security vulnerabilities in 1200 Wi-Fi routers by Namidairo on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @05:28PM (#29247101)

IIRC, the WRT3200ACM had other large issues in regards to wifi... (WPA3 was off the cards because the firmware blob just does not support protected management frames, for example.)

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Re:List of 8000 security vulnerabilities in 1200 Wi-Fi routers by funnyflamigo on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @04:11PM (#29246404)

I haven't stayed up to date with them to be honest. I've switched to ubiquiti access points with my WRT1200AC as just a switch/router. My plan is to upgrade to a x86 box with openwrt or something similar.

So if you had issues with the WRT3200acm I'd go a different route

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Re:List of 8000 security vulnerabilities in 1200 Wi-Fi routers by mikeyschaefer on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @04:07PM (#29246359)

I just tried the wrt3200acm with openwrt for about a month and it wasn’t nearly stable enough. The wifi issue is pretty well know and people seem to be working on it but I’d stay away.

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Re:List of 8000 security vulnerabilities in 1200 Wi-Fi routers by stjohnswarts on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:29PM (#29257737)

dd-wrt has worked fine for me on this, but I'm a pretty casual user. Couple of video streams and phones, pi-hole, a couple laptops, all of which are idle most of the time.

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