I don’t know if this is relevant, but it has to connect to the internet using the phone line

Edit: It’s connected with a coaxial cable

I had a very positive experience flashing and setting up a Linksys E8450 with OpenWRT recently.

Also known as the Belkin RT3200, exact same guts, just different branding. And I second this recommendation, it is a trooper of a router and has great Openwrt compatibility.

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Official wiki page that lists AP with Wifi AX support

(Some devices that lists “Snapshot” might be supported by 23.05 currently in release candidate phase)

If I remember correctly you can plug in phone line to RJ45, this stackovwerflow question lists some caveats.

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Speaking of which, I always had issues with WiFi stability on OpenWrt. Maybe I was just unlucky, but I had issues with both Qualcomm Atheros (ath9k and ath10k) and Mediatek based routers. I couldn’t find anything regarding stability of the WiFi in their hardware database. Is there a list of devices that are known to run reliably?

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I really like GL.iNET’s line of routers. They come with OpenWRT pre-installed, too!

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Came here to say this. GL.iNET is amazing

Not sure, what you mean by ‚phone line‘, but I like Mikrotik RB950 as pure Ethernet based router which works well with OpenWRT and has 1Gps Ports.

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I assume some sort of DSL was meant by ‘phone line’. In which case one could always use an external DSL modem, then any supported router should work. Or one could choose one of the few supported devices with built-in DSL modem, but make sure the modem supports the DSL standard you require.

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