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Router: Moved from DD-WRT to OpenWrt

From Nightfox@21:1/137 to All on Sun Mar 8 16:02:57 2026

I think my network router might be starting to fail.. I've had it for almost 6 years, and recently I've noticed it will sometimes disconnect from the internet, so none of my devices have internet access. If I power-cycle the router, then I'm back on the internet and all is good.

It's a Netgear Nighthawk R7800 that I bought around July 2020. I was running DD-WRT on it, which I had installed right after I bought it (and I had flashed a few newer versions of DD-WRT since then too). All was working fine until the last few weeks.

Yesterday, I decided to replace DD-WRT with OpenWrt on the router; I was curious if it might be more stable for now, but I'm not entirely sure it will help at all. It's been about 20 hours since I installed OpenWrt, and so far so good, though I think more time will tell if it will disconnect any time soon.

I got all my forwarded ports & static DHCP leases configured in OpenWrt, so it's set up as before. And I specified port forwarding with ipv4 IP addresses, as before. I've noticed that this OpenWrt supports both ipv4 and ipv6, which I suppose is a good thing. Also, one thing I want to look into now is ad blocking with OpenWrt.

Nightfox
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