In 2024, the OpenWrt project celebrates its 20th anniversary! To mark this milestone, meet the OpenWrt One – an open-source hardware router designed by the OpenWrt community and manufactured by Banana Pi.
In this video, I’ll unbox the device, walk you through its specs, and guide you through the initial setup. We’ll upgrade the firmware and test WAN to LAN throughput over Ethernet and WiFi 6. Let's see how this community-built router holds up!
OpenWrt One Brief:
CPU: MediaTek MT7981B (Filogic 820) (Dual Core, 1.3GHz)
Wireless: Dual-band WiFI 6 via MediaTek MT7976C (2×2 2.4 GHz + 3×3 5Ghz)
Memory: 1GB DDR4
Ethernet: 1 x 2.5GbE RJ45 port and |1 x Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 port
Flash: 256 MiB SPI NAND and 16 MiB SPI NOR flash
Video timeframe:
00:00 - OpenWrt One Introduction
00:24 - OpenWrt Specification and I/O
01:54 - Pricing and Option
02:12 - OpenWrt Complete Set Unboxing
02:45 - Intial Setup
03:12 - Logic to LuCI Web Interface & Overview
04:30 - Upgrade OpenWrt firmware using USB Flash
05:51 - Install LuCI with apk (something new)
06:53 - WAN to LAN Throughtput via Ethernet (No Offloading)
07:51 - WAN to LAN Throughtput via Ethernet (Software Offloading)
08:38 - Set WiFi SSID
09:16 - WiFi 6 - 2.4GHz Test (WAN to LAN)
09:52 - WiFi 6 - 5GHz Test (WAN to LAN)
10:57 - More WiFi 6 5GHz Tests (not stable)
12:00 - Power Consumption
I would like to express my gratitude to Judy from Banana Pi for sending me the OpenWrt One, in order to make this video. Yet this video is not sponsored by Banana Pi :)
Link to Banana Pi Product Page: https://www.banana-pi.org/en/bananapi-router/173.html
OpenWrt One Docs: https://docs.banana-pi.org/en/OpenWRT-One/BananaPi_OpenWRT-One
OpenWrt One Firmware - https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one
Thank you for watching and see you in the next video!