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Buffalo shipped the WZR series routers with DD-WRT. But they stopped making them when the FCC restricted router firmware about a decade ago.

I bought a pair of them at the time. Kept one (N600) until I needed a 'mesh' and sold it on eBay about four years ago. Replaced it with an Orbi system that doesn't need to phone home (not sure such things are still available in the consumer market).

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The ones that I had came with Buffalo firmware but you could load DD-WRT on them through the web ui. To load OpenWrt you had to use tftp and catch it during boot.

I ended up adding support for the G300NH2 model for OpenWrt.

The differences between open wrt and dd wrt didn’t matter to me. I just wanted more control.

The only time I’ve installed OpenWRT was on my WRT54G, which was in service until it was replaced by one of the Buffalo WZR’s.

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