<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jareklupinski</author><text>the best part about it is Diversion and Skynet, a set of scripts that allows you to adblock inside your router (preventing even in-app ads from loading), and an actually viable outbound firewall&lt;p&gt;seeing weird IP addesses pinging my router from the outside is normal, but when i see something _inside_ my network trying to get _out_, that&amp;#x27;s when I know it&amp;#x27;s time to start reformatting</text><parent_chain><item><author>enlyth</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s also this one for Asus routers, I&amp;#x27;ve been using it without issues for a long time:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.asuswrt-merlin.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.asuswrt-merlin.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>e3bc54b2</author><text>Boy am I glad I replaced stock firmware with OpenWRT the moment my router came out of box last week. It was also extremely painless experience, and I&amp;#x27;d really recommend people to buy routers with OpenWRT support, even if they cost a little more. A router is something you buy for a decade or more, and it&amp;#x27;s worth the investment. Our livelihood depends on network availability, and depending on whims of terrible router firmware is not something to rely on.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What happened with ASUS routers this morning?</title><url>https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/05/what-happened-with-asus-routers-this-morning/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ipython</author><text>Seconded. I used Merlin before I switched to ubiquiti. My only issue with Merlin was intermittent problems with ipv6 router advertisements which caused connectivity issues. I’ve never had an issue since switching to an edgerouter.</text><parent_chain><item><author>enlyth</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s also this one for Asus routers, I&amp;#x27;ve been using it without issues for a long time:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.asuswrt-merlin.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.asuswrt-merlin.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>e3bc54b2</author><text>Boy am I glad I replaced stock firmware with OpenWRT the moment my router came out of box last week. It was also extremely painless experience, and I&amp;#x27;d really recommend people to buy routers with OpenWRT support, even if they cost a little more. A router is something you buy for a decade or more, and it&amp;#x27;s worth the investment. Our livelihood depends on network availability, and depending on whims of terrible router firmware is not something to rely on.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What happened with ASUS routers this morning?</title><url>https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/05/what-happened-with-asus-routers-this-morning/</url></story>