With each passing year, hardware devices grow less dependent on proprietary components and more reliant on open source technologies. Network routers are among the main beneficiaries of this trend, ...

OpenWrt is a free and open source, Linux-based operating system designed for routers and other networking applications. While it’s most often used as an aftermarket replacement for the firmware that ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Why was it so popular? Because it’s so easy to load up custom firmware on WRT devices — if you are a particular ...

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 ...

I thought I was just cutting a monthly fee, but I ended up with a powerful edge router.

A new router designed in collaboration with the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) and OpenWrt Project is touted as the first router “designed and built with your software freedom and right-to-repair ...

Let’s not pretend we aren’t all guilty of it: at some point we’ve all connected to a public WiFi network to check our email or log into some site or service. We know the risks, we know better. But in ...

Open source DD-WRT or OpenWrt firmware can breathe new life -- and advanced features -- into your old wired or wireless router With each passing year, hardware devices grow less dependent on ...