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Old May 22, 2015 | 11:39 am
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Originally Posted by Anonym00se
Yes, unfortunately OpenWRT is definitely *not* DD-WRT. It is not user-friendly in the slightest. Even the GUI is obtuse, confusing, and 'breaks' with almost any upgrade- because the Luci GUI is an installable package itself, not part of the base install.
Coming from DD-WRT, I cheated by choosing a router (TL-MR3020 in this case) for which people are building complete packages with the GUI integrated Fortunately, I was able to figure out how to configure the things I cared about pretty quickly such as an OpenVPN client.

Since then, I bought a Xiaomi Mi Mini WiFi AC1200 class router (a little large to be a true travel router) for $25 from China and installed OpenWRT on it.
Last edited by unmesh; May 22, 2015 at 11:53 am Reason: Clarity
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