Anyone have some experience with OpenWRT?
Currently im using a raspberry pi 3 as a router which i made myself with some "simple" setups, but im really struggeling with hostapd which suuuuuucks as a wireless access point, basically drowning the entire network more or less(atleast the whole bridge consisting of Ethx and Wlanx) if im downloading a steam game limited to 1mb/s, while watching a netflix series(and i have the bandwidth).
imo the hardware on a raspberry pi would, and should be more then capable of handling the traffic, and i can see that the OS hardly uses more then 10% on a single core of CPU time when handling several connections, so my mind automatically wanders to trashy software, and it really seems like hostapd has some buffer which simply doesn't work properly, since the problem only occurs if alot of computers are active, ot it's been running for a while.
My question is has anyone tried openWrt on a raspberry pi, does it work, is it better then your avarage run of the mill firewall/bridged setup?.
Im asking cause having to redo the whole network would suuuuuuck alot, ranging from DNS, to DHCP, and NAT's(Aka. Alot of headaches).
Yeah its basically router linux lol. It has a package manager and everything you would expect in linux plus an http server with a LUA based web page. I personally like the bootstrap layout on a lot of routers. What do you need to know about it
Basically can it handle wireless traffic, and wired traffic without stooping to a halt.
My current experience is that i have to restart my router every day give and take some, and if im installing a game on steam my network is taken to a halt for some reason.
no, why would it do that? You're only going to be limited by the hardware of your router that you install it on.
Could not have said it better myself
Tried it out today, and kind of gave up on the idea.
OpenWrt has really bad support for wireless drivers, i mean REALLY bad, its just not worth the hazzle trying to get it working for a raspberry pi atleast, maybe if i get a low powered x86 at some point in the future.