M**.
Buy it if you care about your network's security
I disagree with reviewers who claim this router is intended for advanced users. It's certainly particularly good for computer geeks, but I would recommend it for everyone else as well. The Turris Omnia is decent, and that's glowing praise in an industry where all other consumer-grade routers are terrible. I'd be inclined to give this router only three stars, because it is expensive and has many problems, but I have bumped it to five to reflect that it is probably the product that you want to purchase if you care at all about the security of your home network, and if you can afford it. It is obviously very expensive, 5-10x the price of other consumer-grade routers. But if you want a good-quality cheap router, then too bad: they simply don't exist. You get what you pay for.The main selling point of this router is that it receives automatic security updates from a competent development team, and will continue to receive them indefinitely. This is unheard of for the router industry. Other consumer-grade routers are only supported for a couple of years, firmware updates have to be manually applied (if they are released at all) by a user with moderate technical expertise (so firmware updates are never applied), and the routers are designed by incompetent developers who leave glaring security holes (e.g. telnet open on WAN, come on). Yes, this statement applies to routers released by your favorite name brand manufacturer. It is very hard to understate how poor the state of the consumer router industry is right now. The Turris Omnia is a good purchase simply because it is not terrible.There is a "simple" user interface, which is very limited but also easy to use for computer people. Unfortunately, like other routers, it does require technical expertise to configure, but if you're not a computer person, you surely know somebody who is, and they'll have no trouble setting this up for you. There is also an advanced user interface, but it's for computer networking experts only. You will not be able to use that unless you have advanced expertise in the field.The setup tutorial process is very buggy. I was not able to complete the setup tutorial after two attempts (the second attempt after performing a factory reset), and had to cut power to the router and reboot it to get it working. This is an extremely poor first impression. But have I reminded you that everything else is worse?You can run a 2.4 GH network or a 5.0 GHz network, or both at the same time, if that's what you're inclined to do. You can choose between 802.11n or 802.11ac. That means the Wi-Fi is not compatible with older devices. If you're not sure: anything older than 2009 is almost surely not going to be able to connect. Anything made in the last five years should be fine.
S**N
Locked Down and Useless
Marketed as "open source", this proprietary device has a locked-down "for dummies" user interface that allows few adjustments. The proprietary DNS does not work with post-Net Neutrality ISP blocking, and there's no way to configure DNS manually. The UI hints at other ways in, but attempts to use them result in "404" or network shutdown. Even if there was a way to load a FOSS firmware image (there's not), OpenWRT doesn't support basic things like Wi-Fi radios, so this is worthless for any network admin, and a false sense of security for simpletons who are all too willing to put their trust and fortunes into the hands of some overseas corporation that the law cannot touch if hackers rob them blind.
B**S
Will need to be reflashed before you use it, but a great Open Source router.
Of course all of my routers and access points run OpenWRT. This box runs a fork of OpenWRT Chaos Calmer, which the company maintains and automatically updates. I hope they rebase it to OpenWRT 18, which release candidates are quietly being tested for as I write this (look in the OpenWRT downloads directory).Unfortunately, these boxes have been sitting around for a while, and are going to have problems getting up to the current version using automatic updates alone. Fortunately, you can download the latest flash image and reflash, and you probably should do that as soon as you unbox this device. See the instructions on the Turris web site. Reflashing is really easy: put the image on a USB stick, hold the reset button until 4 lights light, release the button, wait a few minutes for the router to reboot.With that easy reflash scheme, it should be difficult to brick this device.There is a simplified installation and configuration system, or you can escape to the regular OpenWRT interface.There is an SFP port for using an optical network. There are a choice of SFP devices that will plug into that. This will be of interest to people who live in lightning-prone areas (lightning currents can be induced in long wires and fry your equipment, but not in optical fiber or wifi) or who wish to avoid RFI from long ethernet runs, as many ham radio operators would. They are also good for inter-building fiber runs kilometers in length.OpenWRT allows you to set the power ratings to the legally-allowed power, which might not have any correspondence with the actual power of these interfaces.
C**K
The only router that treats you like an adult.
This thing is wonderful. I love it. The only issue I had was one of the antenna has snapped. So I'm just waiting to hear back on a suggestion for a compatible replacement (as amazon does carry some wifi antennas). Otherwise very pleased with this purchase. I've been configuring routers since the beginning, and this is the only brand I've ever found that actually treats you like an adult, and doesn't hide, obscure, or restrict access to certain functionality, or run painfully slow, and has a UI that is extremely simple to use, once you've poked around through each of the menu options.
A**R
Great Router for advanced users and security nuts!
Although a large portion of the features would be lost on users who don't have a strong understanding of Unix/Linux and advanced networking, the basic feature set between the custom graphical interface added by Turris and the OpenWRT LUCI you can learn about and use an exceptionally huge feature set relatively easily. Turris simplifies a lot of the more complicated concepts as well into a very easy to use interface including setting up VPN to your home network and using DNSSEC out of the box.The Wi-Fi power and penetration seems to be very good and I get signal throughout my entire house without the need of a repeater which I previously had to use even with a nicer Linksys router.And finally, and probably most importantly, it is regularly updated with the latest and greatest security patches. It is safe from many of the known national attacks that have flared up recently. If you value data safety, this is the way to go! You can even enable TOR through their GUI which can increase data privacy to the max(at the cost of speed of course).
A**E
Gerät nach weniger als 12 Monaten defekt und schlechter Kundenservice
Das Konzept ist sicherlich lobenswert allerdings scheint es unausgereift.Das Gerät hatte bereits nach weniger als 12 Monaten den Ausfall des Switch Chips zu verzeichnen.Der damit verbunden Reparaturservice ist ein Graus, direkt über das Herstellerportal gibt es gar keine Reaktion.Der Weg die Kommunikation mit dem Hersteller über die Amazon Plattform zu führen war erfolgreicher bis zum dem Punkt an dem das Gerät zur Reparatur beim Hersteller eintraf. Seitdem sind einige Wochen vergangen und es gibt vom Hersteller keine Information über den Status der Reparatur.Ein weiteres Manko ist der Verzug bei der Entwicklung des OS, die bereits weit über ein Jahr hinterher hinkt (zu upstream OpenWRT), augenscheinlich verursacht durch den Abgang von verschiedenen Entwicklern bei zeitgleicher Mehrbelastung des verbleibenden Teams durch neue Projekte.
R**R
Idee Top
Hab den Router seit gut einer Woche.Positiv:- Sehr gut durchdacht- Eine Robuste und schlichte Bauweise- Extrem Schnell- Installationsanleitung auf ENG / DEU / CZE- Leicht zum einrichten- Bei den Konfigurationen kann man sich ausleben dank OpenWrtNegativ- Support könnte schneller auf E-Mails antworten- Lan Schnittstellen werden an einem MacBook Pro mit Adapter nicht nach einem Neustart erkannt- Nicht alle LTE Chips werden erkannt z.B. MC7455 (evtl. USB 3.0 Probleme am PCI)Leider erkennt er mir den MC7455 LTE Chip nicht am "mSATA / mini PCI Express" Port (man muss den Chip mit einem Klebeband abkleben)Bin im großen und ganzen sehr zufrieden mit dem Kauf.
C**G
Stärken und Schwächen
Gleich vorweg: Dieses Gerät ist nichts für Anfänger. Für eine erfolgreiche Inbetriebnahme und Konfiguration sind weitreichende Linux- und Netzwerkkenntnisse erforderlich. Nur über den Shell Zugang sind alle Konfigurationsoptionen zugänglich.Anwendungen sollte man in so einem LXC Container installiert, dann braucht man nicht in der Firmware Installation herum zu pfuschen. Ein LXC Container mit z.B. einem Arch Linux bietet praktisch alles, was man auf diesem Router braucht. Im vorliegenden Fall wurde eine VoIP TK Anlage mit Asterisk aufgebaut.LTE Modem: Die Option LTE kann man beim Hersteller nicht mehr kaufen. Die Einzelteile kann man sich aber bei dem bekannten China Kaufhaus selber importieren.Sehr gut: Open Source Software und damit Source Code öffentlich verfügbar. Unterstützung von LXC Containern Out-of-the-box.Schlecht: Build der Firmware funktioniert nicht (immer)Der Hersteller sollte seine Commits auf Github einer Qualitätssicherung unterziehen.Nachtrag (2021): Es gibt immer noch Updates für dieses Gerät. Eine weitere Schwäche ist das Speichermedium, es verträgt nicht all zu viele Schreibzyklen. Am besten man baut eine mSATA Karte ein, dann hat man nicht nur sehr viel mehr Massenspeicher, sondern auch ein Medium, das sehr viel mehr Schreibzyklen verträgt und sich ggf. auch auswechseln lässt.
N**T
Amazing product
I've known Turris Omnia from the Indiegogo campaign, but I ratherwaited for regular distribution sale. I hesitated with the purchase alittle, the router is not the cheapest, but I do not regret at all.You will not get such high-performance hardware for better money. Idemanded performance and extensibility and I got it. Wifi is working, Ihave a connected drive via USB 3 (then I have a fully-fledged NAS).I'm sure I'll will play with the router a lot, but it's not a routerfor everyone: to configure everything to work as it should requires acertain level of knowledge.
N**E
Tan impresionante, que muchas veces decepciona.
Aún estoy impresionado de todo lo que se puede hacer con este router. Pero me ha decepcionado alguna cosa. No poder instalar docker, o que las imágenes a utilizar con LXC no sean últimas versiones, o que los repositorios de estás imágenes estén caídos... Tampoco actualizan los propios repositorios de Turris a las últimas versiones del SW disponible para instalar, y eso me ha dado algún dolor de cabeza. El no poder instalar gcc... A ver, no me voy a poner a compilar en el Turris, pero algunos paquetes de SW dependen de él. Algo que me sorprendió es que el busybox no tiene implementado el applet arp. Ya sé que se puede utilizar ip, pero hay script que se basan en la existencia de arp. Y encima no se puede instalar. No puedo instalar netdisc... Extraño. Se puede instalar home-assistant, y este depende para el discovery de netdisc... Tendré que instalar HASS en un contenedor LXC...
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