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The easy installation using the OEM web interface is not supported as written here and the instructions given to install it using the recovery web interface are very confusing.

Has anyone here installed OpenWRT on this router and can help me, please?

Hi all, I have a couple of TPLink EAP613 wireless access points that I'd like to install OpenWRT on. I have been reading that OpenWRT defaults to coming up on 192.168.1.1. Is this true for pure access point hardware as well (the EAP613 are not routers)?

I currently run everything in my home network in a 172.16.0.0/12 subnet and the WAPs get a static IP address assigned from my router. Will I need to create a separate VLAN just for the purposes of setting up these devices? Or will the access points be addressable at the static IPs I currently have assigned to them?

If I understand correctly, Cudy officially supports its routers with OpenWRT, and I think I see distributions available for flashing on their official website.

However, they are also distributed by OpenWRT (Firmware Selector), so I was wondering if there are any differences between the two.

I was trying to update to the latest 25.12.5 version using attended sysupgrade. After the firmware building finished when I tried to download the firmware file it took me about 40 mins to download the file. Is there any server problem? In the past when I used the attended sysupgrade to download the firmware file it downloaded very quickly usually in seconds. Is anybody else facing this problem?

I thought we were only supposed to upgrade pre-installed packages in rare instances, when a security issue has been discovered and the mailing list tells us a specific package should be replaced. For example, the documentation says:

> Upgrading packages may cause serious problems ... Just because there is an updated version of a given package does not mean it should be installed

However, the latest release notes say:

> We strongly recommend upgrading to the latest OpenWrt release and installing all available package updates

Well, which is it?

EDIT: I wondered if the advice had changed with the move to apk, but the warning in the docs specifically mentions both package managers.

Quick aside: I've spent ~6 months on and off buying routers and hardware to do something I assumed would be simple: plug a 4 bay JBOD USB 3.0 HDD enclosure full of movies into the USB 3.0 port on a router and play movies off of it around my house. I want to use SMB and NFS, assign DHCP reservations, and filter connectivity to specific devices based on LAN IP.

I know there's a Table of Hardware but I'm hoping for advice from actual users, buying based on specs hasn't been serving me well.

What are some great recommended routers with active OpenWRT compatibility? I used the WRT54GS and Netgear R7000 for years because they had great development scenes and there was lots of documentation from other hobbyists. Unfortunately my R7000s are too slow to stream big files and all the devices I've bought to use with FreshTomato and DD-WRT (a Nighthawk R9000, Linksys MX5800, another R7000) have introduced insane problems.

I want a powerful router with at least one but preferably two USB 3.0 ports. I'm thinking at least a gigabyte of RAM, quad core SoC. Any recommendations? I keep buying the wrong things, all I know is to stay away from Broadcom.

Should I buy a Raspberry Pi for the NAS and routing and use another router as an AP to broadcast wifi?

EDIT: I'd love to spend <$100 on a secondhand model but am willing to spent up to $200 on something that works, thank you!

Interestingly enough, not even AI is able to configure OpenWRT to my ideal setup (which I can do with the stock firmwares of the likes of Cudy/Gl.iNet, I was just trying if going pure OpenWRT would be useful).

1. I went to OpenWRT Firmware Selector, chose the router image (Cudy TR3000 V1) and added some packages the AI recommended for USB tethering and so on.

2. Added a script from the same AI to setup things

3. Things keeps failing, first it was the IPv4 stack not working, then it's the USB Tethering mode not working...

What I want to achieve

1. The router has up to 3 WAN interfaces, in this order of preference: Wan Ethernet (fiber), Repeater mode (the router connects to a hotel network for example), and Tethering mode (getting internet from iPhone/Android/modem via USB, for example using a Huawei E5783b LTE modem)

2. Then, the router would have Tailscale running at all times, as to access my remote network which has the 192.168.1.0/24 route published in the tailnet. So you can access 192.168.1.10 for example, always whereever you are.

3. Also, the router would have 2 different Wireguard client configs, with the user being able of choosing when to activate one or another, and if it applies to all router clients or only some of them.

And... that's all I think. The fiber is up to 1Gbps, and the LTE is about 5-30Mbps.

I'm thinking about just going back to the Cudy stock firmware, but I wanted to maybe ask other people and maybe try to "learn" and get it right for once, if possible.

Obviously, I don't know any configs like SQM, offloading... which the AI kept getting enabled/disabled/modified all the time, because also for whatever reason, the router seems to work at faster speeds and stable with the stock firmware based on OWRT 21, than with my compilated version.

Thanks.

After recently upgrading from v24 to 25.12.2 a few older wireless routers on my DMZ I was blown away by how much more stable v25 is.

The new apk upgrade and memory management are out of this world compared to v24 and the constant watchdog restarts it was suffering from.

I can even see in the munin memory monitoring charts these beautiful straight lines for used/cache/buffers/committed and gone are the erratic ups and downs and watchdog triggered restarts every week or so.

v25 is rock solid as a wireless router firmware, not doing anything too flash with them just a few older routers in a mesh.

I know it has been out for a while and was sitting on the fence but glad I upgraded, and the only hiccup was that I had to manually reinstall muninlite and xinetd but it was so worth the price.

Huge thank you to everyone contributing to this and making it possible for us to be free of manufacturers locked firmware.

I have a super vanilla OpenWRT setup (I mostly want the regular security updates), and a second Netgear router connected to one of the OpenWRT's LAN ports that sends/receives data to Wyze cameras that are too far for the OpenWRT router's WiFi to reach.

Essentially:

WAN<-->OpenWRT Router<-->Netgear Router<-->Wyze cameras

The Wyze cameras are connected to the Netgear's guest network and were working fine when I had two of the same Netgear routers. But now, the Netgear router usually says it doesn't have any Internet, and when it does have Internet, I can view the live camera footage for 2 seconds or so before the Internet shuts down again. It does the same thing if I do an Ookla speed test, and whether I'm connected to the Netgear's guest or main network: Internet works for 2 seconds or so before going down again.

The OpenWRT logs don't indicate anything at all when this happens, so I'm not sure what to try next. The only thing I see in the logs is that the IP address I reserved for the Netgear (192.168.1.3) was rejected, so it got a different IP address reserved.

8 hours later edit: I figured out a huge part of the problem. The Netgear router had IPv6 disabled by default, and was having hiccups when the OpenWRT router was expecting it. On the Netgear router, I: 1) Enabled IPv6 and set to auto config, 2) Set IPv6 Filtering to Open, leaning on the OpenWrt router to filter, 3) Disabled SIP ALG, and 4) set NAT filtering to Open, again leaning on the OpenWrt router to filter. I can now view live camera footage indefinitely, but doing an Ookla speed test still fails after 2 seconds or so, and using the connected Wyze garage door controller is spotty at best. I can live without the speed test, but any ideas why the garage door controller only works intermittently?

Thanks for the help yesterday. I figured out that my Netgear router had IPv6 disabled by default, and was having hiccups when the OpenWrt router was expecting it.

To recap: I have a super vanilla OpenWrt setup (I mostly want the regular security updates), and a second Netgear router connected via wired backhaul to one of the OpenWrt's LAN ports that sends/receives data to Wyze cameras that are too far for the OpenWrt router's WiFi to reach.

Essentially:

WAN<-->OpenWrt Router<-->Netgear Router<-->Wyze cameras

I'm able to view the Wyze camera footage now, but the Wyze garage door opener is spotty at best. It was working fine when I had two of the same Netgear routers, so I'm assuming something about the OpenWrt's firewall is less permissive. I know there are certain ports Wyze officially requires https://support.wyze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360031479511-What-ports-are-necessary-for-Wyze-Cams-to-operate. Would I need to open the ports on my OpenWrt router? Forward them? Something else?

I was able to successfully install OpenWRT - zero issues so far - by using the built-in D-Link upgrade tool. Quite a bit different than what the official instructions suggest, to say the least.

Question is, will this model be supported into the v25 range? Because I am getting the strange disconnect between what the site offers, and what the attended sysupgrade offers.

Plus, the attended sysupgrade doesn’t seem to work - clicking the “Request Firmware Image” button for v24.10.7 had the initial attempt lock up at 50%, and subsequent attempts has that button do nothing.

Attempting the v25 has an unsupported target: bcm53xx/generic as being unsupported or is still being built.

I'm loosing my mind here ... I've tried atleast 10 guides ... nothing works .... I connect to the woreguard SSID, my IP still shows as my regular home IP on all internet IP checkers ... someone PLEASE help ...

If it helps, I'm trying to use Privado, which works fine if I just do the wireguard setup on my PC itself .... openwrt is not going my way ...

Context, I have 2 SSID's .. I want 1 SSID to go directly throught my ISP , no vpn no anything .. the second I'm trying to go though wireguard.. no vlan's no mwan no nothing .. I do have a pi serving DNS pihole and unbound ... I even tried stopping it all togeather and conguring the google dns's , even the DNS privado provided ...in openwrt ... still no go !!!]

I just got a Cudy LT300 V3 router, a very basic 4G LTE CAT4 and 100Mbps ports to use in a remote location to connect devices through a Wireguard tunnel configured on it. Basic usage for cheap (it cost about $30/30€)

But I don’t know if I should trust Cudy firmware (reliability, security, performance…), and I was thinking about flashing OpenWRT 25.12.3, which is supported, but I see in the wiki the “8/64 warning” which gets me to doubt if this is a good idea.

I would like to have OpenWRT with Luci, run the device on 4G/LTE (at most, sometimes, WAN + 4G/LTE fallback) and 2-3 devices on its WiFi at most (which is only 2.4Ghz N…). And adding to it, a Wireguard tunnel configured or Tailscale if possible (I suppose there won’t be enough ROM space for Tailscale?). The expected speeds are about 20Mbps tops, I suppose.

The specs are on the wiki, but basically:

Model: LT300
Version: V3
CPU: MediaTek MT7628AN
CPU MHz: 580
CPU Cores_numcores: 1
Flash MB: 16
RAM MB: 64
WLAN 2.4GHz
Modem: LTE
USB ports: None
LT300
v3

What do you think? Will it be worth it to flash OpenWRT? Any tips?

I've been running openwrt for a couple of years. I recently went to upgrade, but the new firmware would not upload. I tried flashing the vendor firmware, but that also failed to upload (at around 10%).

It's this likely bad flash? Would replacing the flash likely fix it? Is the firmware loader in flash?

Thanks

Hi everyone,

While trying to update the firmware, I accidentally flashed a firmware file that was not compatible with my hardware version. After the update completed and the device rebooted, it became bricked.

Current symptoms:

- No Wi-Fi network is broadcast.

- The reset button does not respond, even when held for more than 15 seconds.

- The power LED stays solid and never changes or blinks.

- I cannot access the device via its default IP address or the web interface.

I have already connected a SPI programmer (CH341A) and can read/write the flash chip.

I'm looking for:

- A full flash dump for the TP-Link TL-WA855RE V5 (EU).

- Or any advice from someone who has successfully recovered this exact model after flashing the wrong firmware.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Hello everyone,

I have an officeprinter that's not wlan-accessible. It has lan, USB-A and USB-B ports. The mainrouter is not in reach (is in another room) so my plan is to have the mainrouter connected via wlan to a 2.-router and this 2.-router connected via lan to my printer.

The goal is, that any device in the network can print (e.g. a phone in wlan).

I tried configuring the 2.-router - to my knowledge - as a repeater and as a client, each with and without WDS with the same result.

The result/problem I'm encountering is, that the printer (or any device connected via lan to my 2.-router) is not visible in the network. Just the 2.-router itself is visible. Devices connected to the 2.-router get internet connection tho and are visible to each other. So that seems like a semi-second network to me...

To my knowledge means that I just follow instructions and don't understand on a technical level what stuff means. So I do not recognise, if instructions aren't fit for my case.

I can follow these instructions below LuCl. The instructions above are unusable to me, as it doesn't lay out the steps of how to actually "open the /etc/config/wireless configuration file". So it would be great if you include the actual steps in your answers :)

I can also look up instructions myself if you could share the right keywords. I have no problem trying stuff out. I just don't know what to search for.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Well the typical effect of "asking reddit just to find the solution oneself" strikes again. Should have asked earlier to save time 🙃

These instructions worked: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/relay_configuration With the correction that when the instruction gets to wwan, the preexisting wwan interface must be deleted first or it should get a new name (like wwan2) so an actually new one is created.

Well actually the result is a bit different, but fine for my usage: the devices connected to the 2.-router are still not visible. Instead it has it's own radio-channel now, where device can connect to and get access to the printer that way.