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I am looking for a router, and OpenWRT came up. I was looking at their table of hardware and the ASUS RT-AC3100 seemed like a good option, as its cheap used, (~$40 USD) and supported by the latest OpenWRT version.

Thing is, its EOL, per Asus. Does this mean that it won't be supported on OpenWRT for much longer?

Is there a way to see or estimate when a router will no longer work on OpenWRT?

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Does this mean that it won’t be supported on OpenWRT for much longer?

No, they're really good about supporting old routers for as long as possible. For many years the best router to use with OpenWRT was this one from 2002 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_WRT54G_series

[–] Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 1 points 4 days ago

@rimu @Dust0741 Also, even if openwrt stops supporting it.. If you have a router or firewall or something in front of your access point, then running an old version of openwrt isn't really that much of a risk if we're talking about residential wifi w/out a lot of coverage.

And that's assuming you'd want to stick with a model that openwrt has dropped support for. If they do drop support in a few years, you could buy a newer (better supported) older model again for $40.