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Deco S4
Based on 31 Reddit mentions
$95.98
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Fearing the Mesh upgrade
Consumer-grade equipment often can't handle dozens of wireless clients efficiently. Assuming that your setup is like this: Bridged ISP > Primary S4 > Switch > The rest of your stuff . . . then you should be seeing decent wired speeds. If you get 1GB speeds when directly connected to your ISP's route
...TiggerLAS in r/HomeNetworking
January 1, 2025 10:51 PM
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openwrt on s4 deco mesh wifi x 3
If you actually read through the page you linked to, you will find out that Deco S4 runs on a Qualcomm Atheros QCA9563 processor (single core, 750 MHz) with 128 MB RAM and 16 MB storage. These are minimum recommended specifications for OpenWrt (in other words, Deco S4 is a very basic device). As is,
...NC1HM in r/openwrt
June 4, 2025 5:55 PM
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I'm confused about Router Operating Systems
...opnsense which I believe to be a OS for your router but while looking into it more I found someone saying it runs on a computer and not on your router. Both OPNsense and pfSense actually are "distributions" (somewhat like Linux distributions) rather than OSs themselves. Both run on FreeBSD, which
...JoeB- in r/HomeNetworking
June 17, 2025 5:28 PM
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