I also migrated a TP-Link with proprietary acceleration to OpenWRT. But then tweaked it, and on the plus side, put a *BSD* box/router on front of it doing NAT, which is what the acceleration was for. As usually, you cannot expect deploying a system, namely a *wrt/Linux system in a machine with limited resources, and not tweaking it/disabling things for better performance.
I am very satisfied with the results. Plus, I do not feel comfortable on having a proprietary system+proprietary blobs facing the Internet, and will irregular or no existent security updates. On 26 July 2017 at 02:59, Sean Murphy <s.pat.mu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> People are willing to take an unknown (right now) performance > penalty > >> to run openBSD on it and with pf. > > When I was using my ERL as primary gateway, I found that my network > performed better than it did with the dd-wrt based router I was using > previously. Everything was more stable, easier to keep track of what > was going on, and my work VPN was faster to connect and performed > tremendously. Anyone talking about a "performance penalty" is missing > the point. > > -- Regards, -- Rui Ribeiro Senior Linux Architect and Network Administrator ISCTE-IUL https://www.linkedin.com/pub/rui-ribeiro/16/ab8/434
