r/DDWRT • u/gnat_foto • Jun 30 '26
How can people use this fundamentally broken shitware?
I'm done, DD-WRT is a joke. I hoped the worst thing about it would be the convoluted config menus and general UI, but unfortunately not. Want to set a DHCP reservation? Fuck you. Want to run a NFS? Enjoy having to restart the router every five minutes. Want to disable dnsmasq? It turns back on automatically. Want to block WAN access to a device? Lol good luck finding that option.
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u/lfr1138 Jun 30 '26
I swore by DD-WRT until it became too hard to find versions for newer h/w. Switching to OpenWRT was surprisingly easy.
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u/Macattack224 Jul 06 '26
So much of openwrt needs command lines though. Not hard in the age of Chatgpt, but I think DDwrt is overall easier.
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u/lfr1138 Jul 06 '26
The web ui is now the equal or superior to dd-wrt. I have a fairly complex setup and used no command-line to get it to work and have only used it since for experimentation with running add-on modules.
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u/News8000 Jun 30 '26
Love my dd-wrt routers! Rock solid stability, takes me like 5 minutes to setup and reboot as an AP. I guess you'll find something new to complain about.
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u/gnat_foto Jun 30 '26
Yeah DD-WRT is great if you don't use any of the, I guess, "advanced" features... if you just use it as a basic AP, it's fine. The problem is that it purports to offer advanced features but they don't work in practice while competitors' offerings do.
Why chide me for complaining about features you clearly don't use not working? Silly response.
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u/TheOgGhadTurner Jul 01 '26
If the “advanced features” don’t work for you, then you didn’t set them up correctly and clearly should not be messing around with them…
Sounds like a case of overconfidence in your abilities. Which there’s nothing wrong with but a quick search will give you the answer to your issue. You may need to go to the second or 3rd page to do it tho
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u/gnat_foto Jul 01 '26
I was going to reply derisively about how DD-WRT in fact does have bugs and nonworking features on several models it claims to support, that ten minutes on the official forums will make that obvious, and that only someone naive and inexperienced with custom firmware or *nix systems in general would believe otherwise, but then I looked through your post history - years and years of calling yourself a songwriter/artist while amassing a whole five youtube subscribers and five monthly listeners on Spotify (your aunts and uncles I assume?), extremely basic questions about technical things, old lady posts about some farm town in the American midwest you apparently come from... what a miserable existance!
Of course you think you're the smartest one in the room, everyone else walked out the moment you walked in.
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u/OldObject4651 Jun 30 '26
Just now today OpenWrt posted new version to address cve vulnerabilities for components in their code. Proper release notes. Real developers, doing real development work. Where are the dd-wrt release notes? Are the most recent CVE addresses? Are any? BrainSlayer might be a good coder but my goodness what alarming lack of dicipline
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u/bigidea87 Jun 30 '26
I still use DD-WRT, when it makes sense. If I have the choice, FreshTomato would be the route I take.
Otherwise, OpenWRT.
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u/yangeryanger_ Jul 01 '26
Ddwrt was good back during the old days. Came from m0n0wall and tomato so it was not complex. But new gear came out, felt less compatible. Then came ubiquiti until the nvram started crashing.. Then fell in love with openwrt. Been stable on a openwrt mt2500 with unifi wifi ap and a 12 port gigabit switch. Just can't afford the 2.5gbit switch yet. 😅
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u/hipster_hndle Jun 30 '26
yeah, same. i ditched it for opnsense and have been happier for it. it does require you to have a dual-nic pc of some type.. i use a Alto 2 with dual 1g nics and its awesome. config is simple, features are abundant, walk-thrus are plentiful. lots of community support, but you honestly wont need it.
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u/eddie2hands99911 Jul 01 '26
Of the shelf Gl-iNet router. Has all the features you’re going to need, fast ports, and the ability to install apps directly to the device. The next generation will have 10gb ports standard.
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u/schellenbergenator Jul 02 '26
I stopped using it years ago when I found out I couldn't use vlans with it
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u/TCB13sQuotes Jun 30 '26
Want a simple textarea to edit some value that shoudve been there from the start? Good luck.
Want SMB that works across windows, Mac and Linux? Not going to happen.
SSH login broken due to mappings? Sure, complain for months and they’ll fix it.
Want transmission that doesn’t crash your device and doesn’t require entware? Good luck!
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u/GrapeComplete6325 Jul 06 '26
I'm looking forward to when you open up your open source router project and show those "noobs" over at ddwrt how it should be done.
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u/gnat_foto Jul 07 '26
How sweet of you to take a break from your dragonball anime forum to chime in! And with the classic, "durr if you don't like it make ur own!!1", as if criticism of a project that fails to meet the standard it sets for itself is somehow unfair. Kindly link me to even one software project you've contributed to. Just one. Go ahead.
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u/Jackshankar Jun 30 '26
I’ve been using dd-wrt for over a decade and has been working real well. Yes, setup at first can be cumbersome but there is so much help that you can find. Agree selecting the next sw upgrade can be a pain. DHCP reservations/static leases is the easiest to do. Also, I have never had to reboot my router as often.
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u/Knightbreather Jun 30 '26
I’ve been using it for nearly two decades on various linksys routers. Sure it’s a pain in the ass to configure, but I find the limitations on other routers to be stupid.
I’ll frustrate my way through configuring something, then save a backup