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I am looking for a router, and OpenWRT came up. I was looking at their table of hardware and the ASUS RT-AC3100 seemed like a good option, as its cheap used, (~$40 USD) and supported by the latest OpenWRT version.

Thing is, its EOL, per Asus. Does this mean that it won't be supported on OpenWRT for much longer?

Is there a way to see or estimate when a router will no longer work on OpenWRT?

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
AP WiFi Access Point
PoE Power over Ethernet
VPN Virtual Private Network

3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 11 acronyms.

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I'm going to be a little pedantic, for the sake of completeness, because I very much appreciate and value what Decronym bit did here and want it to cover any gaps that may arise (especially for newcomers).

AP doesn't necessarily have to be wifi or wireless; I've used many hardwired APs. WAP stands for wireless access point, though it's almost always shorthanded to AP (more so now, maybe, because of a dumbass song with the same name).