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?

  • kumi@feddit.onlineEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Rule of thumb for OpenWRT:

    In general for consumer routers, Broadcom-based ones like the one posted require a lot of work and hacking to port and maintain. If they’re even working with OpenWRT at all it can be quite dicey and troblesome if you are not very lucky.

    In comparison, Mediatek-based models tend to be better supported and smoother sailing.

    I haven’t seen much of Qualcomm but I’d guess they fall somewhere closer to Broadcom.

    So no, I don’t think it’s a good pick. If OP got it handed down for free it might be worth a shot but I would buy something else if the purpose is to run OpenWRT or any Linux or BSD on it.

    Source: Installed OpenWRT on many different devices over the years, including one with the same chipset