12 engineers on Hacker News describe using OpenWrt first-hand: 6 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I have been running 24.10 on a Flint 2 that we use as an AP and I've had zero issues. ... vanilla OpenWrt is much better.”
endorse · personal · microtonal · 2024-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“OpenWRT absolutely blows PFsense/OPNsense out the water in my experience.”
endorse · personal · CursedSilicon · 2024-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The fact that OpenWRT can't do this is why I don't use it any more. Otherwise I rather like OpenWRT.”
mixed · personal · amluto · 2024-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using the Archer C5 with OpenWRT for over a year and everything has been working flawlessly.”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · KitDuncan · 2016-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“FWIW I build OpenWRT from source and for the past few months have not been using CVS.”
endorse · personal · AndyMcConachie · 2016-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“works perfectly under OpenWRT... we've deployed about 50 PicoStations with our own OpenWRT packages to date.”
endorse · production · 4 yr · sigil · 2013-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I buy literally thousands of them for work (we re-purpose them as network measurement devices, running OpenWrt)”
endorse · production · samcrawford · 2013-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using OpenWrt for many years on a number of devices.”
neutral · personal · g4k · 2024-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I won't run it personally anymore, except in OpenWRT and other embedded systems where I don't have much choice.”
neutral · personal · toast0 · 2024-04-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using this particular model for about 6 month now, with a standard openwrt on it.”
neutral · personal · 0.5 yr · slock83 · 2021-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've went through tons of routers, and on those routers all available firmwares (dd-wrt. open-wrt, tomato, etc).”
neutral · personal · croon · 2016-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“lua inside openwrt environments.”
neutral · personal · tavish1 · 2015-07-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?