The Lance J. Technoweb

Here are my OpenWRT adventures with the Google OnHub WiFi Router, model PGR1900 by TP-Link. The Backstory I found a new looking Google OnHub WiFi Router, model PGR1900 by TP-Link on the street... in the box! I thought it could have been a great win. But alas, NO .  This WiFi Router has been abandoned by Google, magically turned into eWaste by the fuck-the-planet losers at Alphabet.  Cloud-managed hardware CAN be evil, and this is Case Study #1. This is very distasteful of Google, as these devices have good hardware and could have had 5 or 10 more years of life left in them.  It's just that Google and its partners can't make any money on something they already sold, so they prefer them to be landfilled to induce you to buy more expensive junk. Even more evil: They are incorrectly listed as "in production" on Amazon.  So what to do with this Google Paperweight?  I'm going to pursue OpenWRT, in hopes to address the nasty problems caused by Google.  Before get...