My router (TP Link) said it had a firmware update. I’m a responsible adult, so I update my firmware. When I log back in, I get this popup that they’d like to share my clients info.

cool…

  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
    77·
    1 day ago

    https://openwrt.org/

    I’ve never personally used that one, but it gets recommended a lot.

    I’ve been using DD-WRT for 15+ years, but that’s for no particular reason other than It’s what I found first and haven’t had any reason to switch.

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
      10·
      1 day ago

      I was on DD-WRT back when WRT54G but the DD-WRT devs don’t really get it,
      They make the bad compromises, and most of their initial contributors appears to have moved on to OpenWRT.

      At this point DD-WRT isn’t just another alternative, it’s very stale while OpenWRT is still evolving rapidly and has the larger contributor community. And they put as much emphasis on performance, bloat reduction and efficiency as they do new features.

      I have a 8MB nvram TP link archer C7 and it’s actually faster in the latest version, that’s basically unheard of in all of software !

    • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      1 day ago

      I used DD-WRT for 9 years and had no reason to switch until I was forced to. At some point after a firmware upgrade my routers began to occasionally lose their configurations after power failures. Months of troubleshooting, logging errors and recreating configs made no difference. I had been concerned for some time that the project seemed to rely on one guy, and although what he’s doing is amazing, it is not possible for him to thoroughly test each firmware release. When one of my routers lost its config when I was 200 miles away and I lost alarm monitoring I was forced to make a change.

      Open-WRT has been a really pleasant surprise. It’s completely stable on the same routers and the feature set is unbelievably broad. The learning curve was a bitch though.

      • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        10·
        1 day ago

        My story is very similar. I used DD-WRT for years until something broke. Then I switched to OpenWRT and never looked back. That was maybe ten years ago.