You are absolutely correct, Matt. The MyNet devices are overdue for replacement. I like the idea of finding a few newer routers that SudoMesh recommends/supports. However, I also would like to see firmware and scripts that are more modular to avoid this kind of "lock-in" and allow for easier future upgrades.

Also, gonna throw it out there that althea has a pretty good list of router options. https://github.com/althea-net/althea-firmware#supported-device-targets Their firmware has very similar requirements to sudowrt, if you ignore all the crypto- and incentivized routing stuff :P They also do some interesting stuff with Wireguard, which I know some sudo folks have expressed interesting in supporting. Disclaimer: this is in no way a plug for althea, they just have solid docs.

IMO, GLi.Net's stuff is interesting and not too expensive, for example GL.iNet GLB1300 is only ~$90 and could certainly perform all the necessary functions of a People's Open Node.
The Linksys EA6350 also looks promising as a cost effective N600/N750 replacement.
I like your suggestion of the MikroTik hAP ac lite, MikroTik makes cool stuff.

-Grant


On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 1:03 PM Matt Senate <mattsenate@gmail.com> wrote:
>From what I understand, Western Digital has dropped their line of My Net products, and instead is supporting My Cloud devices. Those will be really fun to hack on later on as they get old and cheap (especially for distributed networking projects, no?) WD has already stopped offering support for the My Net products and have definitely stopped selling them. So eventually we will also run out of n600 and n750 stock. Plus, the price has gone up to near-MSRP for the n750:
https://camelcamelcamel.com/N750-Dual-Router-Wireless-Accelerate/product/B007KZQM9Q

Following the suggestion from Guifi.net visitors years ago -- to build our network to provide a good service experience, we should use new hardware (when we can) to get performance boosts from improvements to radio, power-management, and standards technologies. It seems like we may want to find the next router to support, and I'm curious what folks have looked at lately!

It seems the search may be for affordable, good quality, dual-band/dual-radio routers that are openwrt-compatible. Plus, devices that support new technologies like 802.11ac (Wave 2?) and 10/100/1000 MBPS wan/lan ports (more easily take advantage of fiber services from Sonic.net / Cruzio / etc). Interestingly, we may also find affordable options from brands like MikroTik that seem to have more US distribution than before if I recall correctly. 

Here's  my short list from quick research, lmk what you think:
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