Are you going to deploy/support Tomato for your customers/family?
Insert DD-WRT/OpenWRT here and then give up and get a MikroTik since you can actually eat your own dog food.
Insert DD-WRT/OpenWRT here and then give up and get a MikroTik since you can actually eat your own dog food.
My TP-Links with OpenWRT (I know, I should upgrade to LEDE) are probably much more stable than any other networking gear I've ever owned. Everything is old 802.11n gear powered by ath9k.
But if you aren't into flashing your own firmwares, MikroTik is fine too. I use a pair of SXT 5 lites and the uptime (yes, even wireless uptime!) is approaching 100d.
I decided to use a snapshot as it's the only thing with support for my router.
Got it setup and working nicely, it looks great, works great, no bugs, perfect!
Then a week or so later I needed to install a package, only to find that their package manager only ever has the most recent version of each package, and there is no way to upgrade without wiping and reinstalling. And by this point the kernel had updated, so I couldn't install any kernel modules without bumping the kernel first.
So now i'm stuck on a branch that I can't install packages on, I don't really have the time to pull down all the configs and reformat, and i can't update or install anything at all.
It's kind of my own fault for not reading and fully understanding the docs before starting, but it still sucks.