OpenWrt is an open source, Linux-based operating system designed for routers and other wireless devices. It’s been around for more than two decades and for most of that time it’s been offered ...

I was trying to see if OpenWRT would be easier than Ubiquiti's EdgeOS as I have two EdgeRouter Lite routers so I thought that I'd throw OpenWRT on one and try it out. Wow. They sure seem to have made ...

Over the course of 2015, I noticed a trend. Rather than replacing routers when they literally stopped working, I increasingly needed to act earlier—swapping in new gear because an old router could no ...

Through the years, I've used all sorts of router and firewall solutions at home and at work. For home networks, I usually recommend something like DD-WRT, OpenWRT or Tomato on an off-the-shelf router.