Complaining about the lack of wifi drivers is pretty silly if you don't understand the advantages of a simple bridging wireless AP.
They're exposed to WiFi. They have terrible security in baked-in firmware that can't be updated without connecting them to vendor clouds, if at all.
FragAttack was just last year.
>Complaining about the lack of wifi drivers is pretty silly if you don't understand the advantages of a simple bridging wireless AP.
Ah yes, because one can think of three things that APs are not affected by, therefore APs are bullet-proof.
You just made my point for me. If you have to download binary blobs to your hardware, like wifi interfaces, you can have issues. Would you rather have vendor-dependent devices inside your firewall / NAT router, or just connected to the same network as your firewall / NAT router?
Nobody said APs are bulletproof, silly. Only people who don't know better would suggest or even imply that having separate APs is somehow worse. You want to keep the less secure stuff over which you have less control out of the important systems.
But other than that, yeah I don't see any reason to use a COTS router when I can just make one. My current router is my old desktop PC that became redundant when I built a new one, sitting as a bare motherboard on a test bench to take up very little space, running OPNsense.