Sounds nice, make a librem router with libreCMC GNU/Linux-libre (a fork of OpenWRT), Is also a officialy GNU endorsed distro, Its fully free, without any binary blob because use Linux-libre as kernel.
Have some routers, that support it, especially TP-link ones, also have somes few ThinkPenguin ones with FSF RYF endorsed.
+1 I’d like to see more libre routers / gateways / firewalls. Fanless, low-power, embedded system with multiple Ethernet ports. My RYO router running on a Soekris system is showing its age and its bios, while usable, is definitely not free and less than great.
I’m looking forward to Turris Omnia, but it’s not completely free since the OS is OpenWRT-based.
They said that the hardware is open source and they developed it from scratch. I just don’t get why they didn’t choose LibreCMC.
Sorry for double post - I just found this official statement:
“Are there any firmware binary blobs?
Just for the 5 GHz wifi card. The rest of the board is completely blob free.”
I don’t know if there is any open 802.11ac hardware yet so it’s probably not their fold.
company out of hong kong called gl-inet.com makes rather incredible little ‘travel routers’ - cheap, easy, fun.
in fact, probably very complimentary product for customer in market for privacy/security focused laptop. router contains open hardware can tether, bridge, repeat, wisp, firewall, openvpn out of box as openwrt preinstalled.