Don’t get me wrong, UniFi is great, but I am definitely coming back to OpenWrt after about a year.
The main reason is I’m just tired of having DNS Leaks on UniFi, I run multiple VPNs tunnels and some complex settings. OpenWrt worked great for me when it comes to VPNs. You set UniFi and after some time I see leaks after updates, which is annoying to me.
Second, I love networking, I can do whatever I want on OpenWrt. UniFi just has a nice UI and clean, fancy statistics.
When it comes to stability, nothing beats pure OpenWrt to me. And I say pure because some devices run a fork, like GL.iNet.
UniFi might have a nice app and ecosystem, but it’s just a nice UI. And I can’t remember the last time I opened the UniFi app. I have firewall rules and VLANs so I don’t have a need to be on it constantly
Long life OpenWrt. Supporting it since the TP-Link TL-WR840N. 2013.
Has anyone ever felt the same way?
Source: r/openwrt · by /u/SteevStR