So I’ve seen the TP-Link and GL.inet travel routers, and it looks like some of the GLs are/were built to run wrt firmwares. Stock TP firmwares have been pretty full features in my experience. I really want USB-C power. The GL wireguard support looks useful too, but it looks like their newer stuff is proprietary? Another want, not need, is 5 GHz band.
Does anyone have a favorite model or another board that can be flashed?
I use a gl.inet Mango for work. I’m a field tech for industrial machines, I connect the router to the machine’s LAN (if it doesn’t have a switch, the two ports on the Mango come in handy, I just insert it in an existing connection) and I have wireless to the PLCs, allowing me to walk around the installation to check things with my laptop.
Bonus point for the wifi client that allows me to connect to a customer’s wifi or my phone’s hotspot and also have internet on my laptop for mails, etc.
The other day I used it to connect to three different subnets on three machines, one on one port, and two on the other with a switch, again with wifi client for internet.
That’s a cleaver solution to a problem that brings lots of quality of life benefits to your job. Kudos!