What's wrong with consumer routers for /g/? I understand

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Just bought a Linksys WRT1200AC and plan on installing DD-WRT or whatever else is the most stable.
How badly did I fuck up?

>>62162646
Hey. not bad. It's cheap.
The beauty of not being tech-stupid is that mostly anything works and can be good.

>>62162690
I'm a bit concerned about the WiFi signal strength and distance. Some reviews claimed that the distance is rather bad, while others said the opposite.
Can you still increase the TX power in custom firmware?

>>62162720
Yes, I wouldn't know specifically for this model though.

Why are all good routers ugly af?

>>62162778
>8 legged spider alien
>ugly
Get your taste checked m8

>>62162588
Are there even cheap routers with support for 3rd party firmwares?

>>62162807
>gaymen aesthetic
>anything but disgustingly gaudy

Tplink archer c7 v2 has been a great router for me. Flashed openwrt and only open the router interface once a year to check for updates, all just werks

>>62162807
Pretty much all routers can be supported. It's only about third party support for that router. Not so much so once you get down to package managers, they're univeral and dependent on processor architecture only. They sometimes come with the firmware.
I use a Netgear R6400 $100 USD with Tomato by shibby firmware and I installed entware and used it to update the (albeit only a couple months) old packages.
It's worth noting that even poor, outdated third party support is made alright with the ability to install package managers. You yourself can update vulnerable packages and expand functionality and if you have ever used Linux it's a walk in the park. I have a DNS Sinkhole installed in my router for example, basically the same this pi-hole does.

>>62163154
(clarification) entware is a package manager, you can install it as a separate unit, not sure if i was clear

>>62162588
oh shit, I've seen that thing in strike witches

No hardware offloading is probably the biggest issue.
Most also don't have enough cpu powah to run openvpn.

>>62163222

As far as specs go one should theoretically not be dumb enough to buy a router that can't handle openvpn for their use-case if they want to use it, but it seems like you have a more intense load in mind than most households.
For my use-case of around 20 devices active my 100 usd 800mhz dual core ARM router handles quite a few services including openvpn just fine.