If you already own one, and you have a spare weekend, a soldering iron, and a morbid curiosity about embedded Linux—go for it. You will learn more about bootloaders, MTD partitions, and serial recovery than any YouTube tutorial can teach.
For the uninitiated, the stock firmware is a nightmare: limited features, poor WiFi stability, a clunky interface, and security vulnerabilities that have never been patched. huawei hg658 v2 custom firmware
However, for the same $10-$15 you’d spend on a serial adapter and the time invested, you can buy a or a TP-Link Archer C6 —both of which support OpenWrt via a simple web upload. If you already own one, and you have
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