What's your favorite OpenWRT device?

I've been using a Flint 2 for the better part of a year. No complaints. I was used to a decent Asus router and replaced it when it went end-of-life because the OpenWRT firmware for the ASUS device wasn't feature-complete.

I installed vanilla OpenWRT as soon as I took the Flint 2 of the box and I ran into no major issues. I only need to focus on home use with wired and wireless clients, plus a network printer. The web interface works as advertised, as has the command line interface to the extent that I've played around with it. Once I dealt with the basic setup, I've been able to forget that it's there other than to install new updates when they become available. Whenever I feel like it, I'll see about installing some services like router-level vpn or network adblocking. Not a priority yet, plus I like doing clean installs when I update the router firmware.

I bought a Flint 1 a couple of weeks ago. Didn’t realy have a use-case for the Flint 2 and the 1 was heavily discounted. It’s been pretty good so far. It’s giving me my ISPs advertised speeds and I use it to assign specific devices to go through VPN.

I just did this. I installed a banana pi r4 as my main router with no wifi, and a couple of separate APs. I bought some Extreme Networks APs on ebay for USD$15 each, already flashed with openwrt.

I used the YouTube tutorials by OneMarcFifty to set up vlans for alternate SSIDs. Works great!