I moved to an OPNsense router a couple of years ago and I’ve never looked back. Hell is shitty consumer routers.
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but does it run openwrt?
e: no it doesn't, only one model had half-baked image made and available for download from some sketchy forum post made in 2014
Why do they say they’re prohibited to provide support? That a bad translation?
Commodity hardware & open source software for the win.
When my Western Digital NAS was never going to get critical security patches, I was so freaking glad to find out that they just used software raid... I threw the HDDs in a Debian server and never looked back.
It's certainly nice to have things that are turn-key, but if you can find your way around any OS, just avoid proprietary everything.
Is DDWRT still a thing?
OpenWRT is. Not sure if it's supported on that hardware tho.
No mercy from Low Level.
I watched and enjoyed that one yesterday, and he's bang on the money. People here are saying "well it's EoL" but that means it's got all the way through development and its full lifetime with such a prominent set of bugs.
I don't think I'll be buying D-Link if that's what supported means.
Same website (granted, different author, but), same inflammatory language, same vendor, referencing previous erroneous article...I'm not even gonna read this one. Just going to copy/paste my previous response from the previous post:
At a certain point it's the consumer's (and blog writer's) fault, and that's after EoL. Not patching a supported one and just getting rid of support, saying buy a newer one? Yeah, that's bad.
Continuing to not support an EoL model that you already don't support due to EoL (or even dropping support for an EoL model that no one expected you to support in the first place due to EoL)? Non-issue.
Instead of trusting DLink with an off the shelf NAS, it might be easier to build your own with a Raspberry Pi running openmediavault hooked up to a couple of USB hard drives. It's worked well for me for over 6 years now with no issue and could cost way less.
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