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0xtr | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The Omnia seems to have a bit low clocked CPU and old ram (DDR3), does it actually perform well?
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laanwj | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 i haven't ever found CPU to be the limiting factor, nor have i heard it to be slow; but mind it's a consumer router, if you want utmost speed i guess you end up in the more professional segment aimed at datacenters-or roll your own firewall with a mini x86_64 pc

maybe also see also this previous thread with suggestions, though most people seem to prefer pfSense based routers there not openwrt:
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0xtr | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 tbh I'm not entirely sure what hardware I'm looking for but I want it to have Wifi 6 (or 7) so that I can do stuff like streaming VR games from my gaming PC to some kind of VR headset (I don't own any atm because I refuse to buy Facebook's headset). It should perform well with 10+ people for LAN parties, etc, and overall be stable and performant in general. My other requirement is that I can install some kind of open source firmware on it so that I don't have a backdoored stock router OS that talks home to the producer (or CIA/NSA for that matter).

To me, it seems like the Turris Omnia has worse overall hardware specs than other routers such as the Flint 2 (GL_MT6000). I'm also not really locked to OpenWRT in any way, just seems like people really like it. I'll have to do more research on openwrt vs pfsense though..
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ChipTuner | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I've recently virtualized my router. I was against it at first, but I'm really happy with it now. I had no choice when I was moving. I have a fairly new cluster atm that does well. I still see less than 3ms ping time to isp routers with internal latency. I used to have an 8 core xeon 3.2ghz and with proper broadcom nics, tcp offloading and DMA support, the thing was mostly idle with gigabit service. Site to site l2tp and over 100 client devices connected. I'm sure it would still do well, albeit at 60 watts of power.