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Re:Drilling Down on Uncle Sam's Proposed TP-Link Ban by kej on Sunday November 09, 2025 @04:42PM (#45869467)
Do any of TP-Link's mesh routers support OpenWrt? I didn't think there was overlap between the "easy to set up for my parents" and "easy to install custom firmware" subsets.
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Re:Drilling Down on Uncle Sam's Proposed TP-Link Ban by oever on Sunday November 09, 2025 @06:04PM (#45870144)
OpenWRT runs well on Deco M5 with a custom build.

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/ipq4019-adding-support-for-tp-li...

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Re:Drilling Down on Uncle Sam's Proposed TP-Link Ban by chatmasta on Sunday November 09, 2025 @05:15PM (#45869735)
From what I could tell in the admin panel, those mesh routers _are_ OpenWRT. And they have an advanced section where you can upload a firmware .bin.
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