OpenWrt One - celebrating 20 years of OpenWrt

[Paul D]

6GHz seems a starting point nowadays, although I get by with 5GHz.


If the BPi can be extended with add-on cards for exactly this area, 
that's a great starting point also.


Ideally sub $100 for any product.


* Packages with cases+PSU are a must for broader acceptance, and to 
prevent fatigue from having to buy several parts to get a working system 
that can be wall/ceiling-mounted. This is an implicit advantage to 
buying OTS routers: everything needed is there. An expensive ecosystem 
becomes a limiting factor for adoption.


* Having a few H/W variants available provides demand metrics: which 
variant is more in demand and popular speaks to what people want.


* CPU which manages line-speed WireGuard is very important nowadays: 
with governments monitoring people, users demand privacy afforded by VPNs.


Wi-Fi is still inherently limited by the closed-source nature of the 
Wi-Fi blobs: will those ever be open sourced? It'd be brave, but the 
right way. ( Lots of IP )



On 2024-01-09 11:49, John Crispin wrote:
> tl;dr
> 
> In 2024 the OpenWrt project turns 20 years! Let's celebrate this 
> anniversary by launching our own first and fully upstream supported 
> hardware design.
> 
> If the community likes the idea outlined below in greater details, we 
> would like to start a vote.
>