<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Many reasons to run open firmware on your router ...</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">- You are not running the manufacturer's firmware, which usually has anti-features (tracking/spying, data collection, backdoors, ...)</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">- Allows you to run various applications (<a href="https://openwrt.org/packages/index/start">list of packages by category</a>), through a package system and repositories</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">- You are are in control, just like when you run Linux on desktops or servers</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 2:51\u202fPM William Park via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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What features of OpenWRT do you need? Last time I dealt with custom
firmware (DD-WRT) was because of "bufferbloat". But, factory
firmwares of my Asus RT-N66U seem to deal with it. The router is
old, and newer routers would be even better.</div></blockquote></div></div>