OpenWrt Two will be a higher-performance router with 10 Gigabit LAN and WiFi 7 support
  • MediaTek Filogic 880 processor
  • 1 x 10 Gigabit SFP port
  • 1 x 5 Gigabit Ethernet port
  • 4 x 2.5 GbE Ethernet port
  • 1 or 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports
  • WiFi 7 (tri-band)

OpenWrt Two is expected to sell for around $250 when it hits the streets in late 2025

  • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nzEnglish
    61·
    20 days ago

    That’s not bad pricing wise. There’s very very little prosumer gear that’s multi gigabit and it’s all much higher price, or it’s just a PC with several NICs.

    If and when we move to hyperfibre this is going to be pretty high up on the list.

    • BigFig@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      20 days ago

      Hyper fiber??? I don’t even have regular fiber here and y’all are moving on to HYPER???

      • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
        141·
        20 days ago

        I have gigabit (0.7 up) and for 10€ plus (so a total of 40€/month. Just to annoy our American friends ☺️) I can get 10Gb symmetrical. The nerd/geek in me wants it but I just don’t need it

        • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
          101·
          20 days ago

          As an American that lives in a civilized state in an urban area, I too have fiber and can get 10gb symmetrical.

        • octoblade@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          2·
          20 days ago

          I am jealous. I live in Australia and because of where I live the only way to get anything symmetrical is enterprise Ethernet. As you can imagine, it is outrageously expensive. So I am stuck with 50 Mbps upload for the foreseeable future.

  • JaumeI@programming.devEnglish
    51·
    20 days ago

    But the first OpenWrt-branded device has only two Ethernet ports, which is an odd choice for a router.

    Well, technically it’s the only choice for a router… We are getting so used to the router/switch combo we will forget what exactly is a router. Which is probably good, I guess.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      20 days ago

      I mean, technically there’s no reason a router can’t route between more than two networks. For example, I’ve got both fiber and cable Internet (for no real good reason – I ought to cancel one and save some money) and I’ve configured my OpenWRT router to have two different uplinks, reconfiguring one of the four LAN ports to WAN2 instead.

      I’ve also got the other ports configured for separate VLANs (walling my untrustworthy Chinese ONVIF cameras off from being able to phone home, for example), but I think that’s technically not “routing” 'cause it’s OSI layer 2.

      I assume it’s not common to have more that two networks being routed, especially in a SOHO environment, but it’s definitely not impossible.

      • lengau@midwest.socialEnglish
        71·
        19 days ago

        This takes me back to my childhood… My dad would take me to the fair and get me a deep fried router on a stick and a roll of cat5.

    • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
      4·
      20 days ago

      A router is also an open-by-default device, and knows how to handle routing protocols like OSPF. It’s not something you would usually use at home unless you’re into that sort of thing. Things we tend to call a “router” are all-in-one firewall/switch/access points.

    • jim3692@discuss.onlineEnglish
      1·
      20 days ago

      Are you too used to Cisco devices? Mikrotik routers also have multiple ethernet ports, that are not connected to an internal switch.

  • pogodem0n@lemmy.worldEnglish
    271·
    20 days ago

    I was recently looking for a decent WiFi 7 router to replace my aging Archer A6. Then, looked up the table of hardware at toh.openwrt.org and almost none of the WiFi 7 routers from mainstream brands was supported. Glad to see something first-party releasing soon. I’ll definitely buy one when it releases.

    • Geologist@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      20 days ago

      I have a bpi-r4, it’s fantastic, totally recommended.

      No idea about its wifi 7 though, I didn’t buy the addon board, and went with unifi u7’s instead.

      Also, looking at the specs of the upcoming openwrt two devices, with only a single 10g port, it won’t work well if you’re getting 10gig service from your ISP, and have a 10g lan as well

  • mumblerfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    20 days ago

    Can you do “roaming” / “fast-transition” solutions with the openwrt one and/or two? (What is called “mesh” by e.g. tplink)

      • mumblerfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        20 days ago

        Awesome. Thanks. What is dawn/usteer?

        Edit: nvm, I see it mentioned in the openwrt docs. I’ll check it out, thanks.

        • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          20 days ago

          I’m in the process of setting up usteer myself but haven’t quite finished. I think Dawn is easier but usteer seems more complete. Dawn doesn’t require a central controller which usteer does, but the usteer central controller can run on an non AP install which makes for nice centralized information.

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    31·
    20 days ago

    Interesting that it will only have 1 10GbE port, I’m not really sure how you’re supposed to use 10Gb internet service if you can’t get 10Gb out of the router into your LAN.

    • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
      10·
      20 days ago

      The idea is that you use the 10Gb port as a trunk, then you use your switch to split it into separate physical ports using VLANs.

        • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          19 days ago

          The 10Gb is full duplex, so you can transfer at the full 10Gb though that is split between upload and download. These and the kind of ‘problems’ I wish I had to consider.

          • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            1·
            19 days ago

            Fair, I guess the chances of needing simultaneous 10Gb download and upload on the internet connection are pretty slim.

            My ISP does offer 6 Gbps, but 1 Gbps is far more than I need already. I would drop down to like a 500 Mbps plan if they had one but it jumps all the way to 100 Mbps.

  • Railcar8095@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    20 days ago

    What would be a good alternative to go between the modem and a mesh access point?

    Two Ethernet (gigabit) would be required.

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    20 days ago

    With this kind of speed, we could invent Call of Duty games where the Zombies want slightly more than brains. Generative A.I. uses internet data for training so at first, the zombies will probably request Doja Kat in the racial chat rooms showing feet but human progress marches ever forward. Within a decade, Zombies might just want to get drunk and go to Popeyes.

    • jim3692@discuss.onlineEnglish
      161·
      20 days ago

      Will that minipc have those 10g/5g/2.5g ethernet ports? If you don’t need that ethernet bandwidth, we all know there are cheaper options.

      • bruhduh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        35·
        20 days ago

        You and me know, but not everyone, most people don’t even know what lemmy is

        • jim3692@discuss.onlineEnglish
          113·
          20 days ago

          People reading about OpenWRT based network devices, probably know about their needs. They are usually already looking for devices with OpenWRT support, without being too expensive.

          Also, people not knowing about Lemmy is completely irrelevant on this context. I highly doubt that all friends on the network engineering field know about Lemmy, but they surely know whether they need 10g or not. Besides that, you are talking about people not knowing about Lemmy ON Lemmy.

    • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      20 days ago

      They often only have 1 ethernet port that’s 1GbE or 2.5GbE at that price, and a wifi client card doesn’t make a very good AP.