Merlin or Openwrt or Other (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by Squizzy@lemmy.world to c/networking@sh.itjust.works

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Hey, I have to get a new router. Looking at a Flint 4 because things are not costly enough as far as I am concerned. I have heard good things about the Asus Merlin firmware though and was wondering are there any upsides to either worth calling out?

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[-] Kewlio250@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

I've loved my Flint 2. Being powerful enough to run my VPN and a pretty stout adguard home setup has been huge.

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Adguard is how I am selling it to my spouse. We never use youtube on tv despite wanting to because of the ads

[-] Kewlio250@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

Adguard still hasn't fixed TV YouTube ads for me. They inject through a different kind of protocol from what I understand. If you can get Smart Tube on your TV through sideloading (I used Jdownloader on android TV) it will be ad free

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Balls, I have the tv offline everything through apple tv

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