I purchased one of these for a family member and it has been great.

Are these for sale in the US?

> Note that recent (2025-10) batches of the OpenWrt One have an M.2 slot with a detached post at the 2230 position and the shipped product contains no way to attach the post.

The implications of this are going over my head (and TFA should explain it better). I gather that 2230 is a form factor 22x30mm and there's also a 2280 M.2 SSD form factor.

Is this just saying that there's a missing mounting post? So it wobbles? You can't use a certain form factor?

Some previous discussion around the launch in 2024:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42285689

I have an ASUS RT-AX53U running OpenWRT for a few years now.

I bought it, turned it on and flashed it out of the box lmao

I like the idea of having their own hardware but it is not easy to get, so buying normal ones and flashing them still the best option.

Next step: open source hardware ASIC for the open router ?

1x 2.5g WAN

gl·iNet also runs openWRT. You can even ssh into these routers.

Increíble

There is definitely beauty in having a separate router device that chugs on just fine regardless what happens to the rest of your network. But I got bored with the constantly-churning embedded culture, bespoke OS's (sorry, OpenWRT), and VPNs generally want more CPU than what purpose-built "routers" have. So I just went back to the old way of using a plain Linux machine as the gateway (now virtualized, with NixOS and nftables) and couldn't be happier. WiFi AP is done by that same physical machine (not virtualized) and by two other amd64 machines that double as Kodi boxes. When you learn netfilter/iproute2, that experience carries to anything else you might switch to.