@skylar >what if the router just....didn't do wifi?
Then you're in luck.

Any computer with at least 2 8P8C ports (if there is only 1, an external network cards can be installed and a PCIe one will perform much better than a usb one) and the right software will work as a router.

In the typical use, the second port is plugged into a switch, which has ports galore, but if the router has enough ports for the network, then a switch isn't required.

If you have a server in the location, that server can be made to be the router - which is often beneficial as your server can use IPv4 the way it was meant to be used (without NAT), while also using NAT for any computers on the LAN (or even better, the LAN is pure IPv6).


Most SoC's that are supported by OpenWRT will route packets just fine without any proprietary software if you don't use the Wi-Fi card - so I reckon the buildscripts for most of the devices would trivial to clean up to make LibreCMC if you don't care about Wi-Fi or would be happy with the poor-performance of a usb-attached freedom-respecting card (some routers have a mPCIe slot for the Wi-Fi card, so one just needs to swap the card for a decent Atheros one and modify the Linux config to include the Atheros driver instead and you're set).